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Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon (लॉर्ड कर्ज़न), 1859–1925, was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and as foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924.
Lord Curzon Ki Haveli
Lord Curzon Ki Haveli is a 2023 Hindi black comedy thriller, the directorial debut of Anshuman Jha, written by Bikas Ranjan Mishra, starring Arjun Mathur and Rasika Dugal; four South Asians' dinner party turns dark over a joke about a corpse in a trunk, shot on a single 35mm lens as a Hitchcock homage.
Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), pen name of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish fantasy pioneer, author of The Gods of Pegana and The King of Elfland's Daughter, and an influence on Lovecraft.
Lord Frederick Windsor
Lord Frederick Windsor (Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor), born 1979, is a British financial analyst at JPMorgan, son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, second cousin of King Charles III, husband of actress Sophie Winkleman since 2009.
Lord Great Chamberlain
The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is a hereditary Officer of State with custody of parts of the Palace of Westminster and duties at the State Opening of Parliament.
Lord Guildford Dudley
Lord Guildford Dudley (c. 1536–1554), fourth son of the Duke of Northumberland, married Lady Jane Grey in May 1553; refused the title of king, convicted of treason, beheaded on Tower Hill 12 February 1554.
Lord Hanson of Flint
Lord Hanson of Flint, born David Hanson, is a British Labour politician and Home Office minister in the House of Lords, previously MP for Delyn from 1992 to 2019.
Lord Haw-Haw
Lord Haw-Haw was the British nickname for Nazi Germany's English-language wartime broadcasters, chiefly William Joyce (1906–1946), whose "Germany calling" propaganda talks drew millions of listeners before his 1946 treason execution.
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands: subtropical volcanic island groups in the southwest Pacific (29°S–31°S) with the world's southernmost coral reefs, high endemism, and large Australian marine parks.
Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island: volcanic Tasman Sea island 570 km east of Port Macquarie, NSW; World Heritage since 1982; endemic woodhen and phasmid; rodent eradication in 2019.
Lord Howe Island Group
Lord Howe Island Group: World Heritage-listed volcanic islands and reefs in the Tasman Sea, Australia, inscribed 1982; world's most southerly true coral reef, endemic woodhen and phasmid, 2019 rodent eradication.
Lord Howe Rise
Lord Howe Rise: submerged continental plateau of Zealandia, ~2,000 km long east of Australia, 20–23 km thick crust, rifted from Australia during Tasman Sea opening (~83–85 Ma), Cretaceous rhyolites, frontier petroleum region.
Lord Howe Seamount Chain
The Lord Howe Seamount Chain (LHSC) is an age-progressive ~1,000 km north-south line of at least 19 guyots, reefs, and banks on the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman Sea, formed 28-7 Ma as the Australian plate moved north over a hotspot; Lord Howe Island and Ball's Pyramid are its only islands.
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is a Los Angeles-based American indie rock band founded by Michigan-born Ben Schneider, with Tom Renaud, Mark Barry, and Miguel Briseño. Five albums from Lonesome Dreams (2012) to The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (2025); breakout song The Night We Met went multi-platinum via 13 Reasons Why.
Lord Infamous
Lord Infamous (Ricky Dunigan, 1973-2013), Memphis rapper, founding member of Three 6 Mafia with DJ Paul and Juicy J; coined Triple Six Mafia name, credited with triplet flow, died of heart attack at 40.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, British aristocrat, second cousin of King Charles III, and descendant of Queen Victoria; first member of the extended royal family to come out as gay (2016) and to have a same-sex wedding (married James Coyle, 2018, Bridwell Park).
Lord Jamar
Lord Jamar (Lorenzo Dechalus, born 1968, New Rochelle NY) is a Brand Nubian founding member, solo Five Percent rapper (The 5% Album, 2006), Oz actor, and VladTV commentator famous for calling white rappers guests in hip hop.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim is Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel about seaman Jim, who abandons the steamer Patna, and Marlow's multi-voiced narration of him; serialized in Blackwood's Magazine 1899–1900, based on the 1880 Jeddah affair, a pioneering modernist narrative.
Lord John Grey (character)
Lord John Grey is Diana Gabaldon's fictional English officer and secretly gay aristocrat from the Outlander novels, hero of her Lord John historical mystery series and played on Starz's Outlander by David Berry, with a long-discussed spin-off.
Lord Justice Clerk
Lord Justice Clerk: second most senior judge in Scotland, president of the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session and co-head of the High Court of Justiciary; current holder Lord Beckett since February 2025.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin, born William Thomson, was a Belfast-born physicist who founded the absolute temperature scale named the kelvin and taught at Glasgow for 53 years.
Lord Kitchener Wants You
Lord Kitchener Wants You: 1914 British recruitment image by Alfred Leete, first a London Opinion cover, showing the Secretary of State for War pointing at the viewer; prototype of Flagg's Uncle Sam poster.
Lord Linlithgow
Lord Linlithgow (लॉर्ड लिनलिथगो) was the title of Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, a British peer who served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (魔弾の王と戦姫)
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (魔弾の王と戦姫) is Tsukasa Kawaguchi's 14-volume MF Bunko J fantasy light novel (from 2011) about archer Tigrevurmud Vorn and the war maiden Elenora Viltaria, adapted into a 2014 Satelight TV anime and revived in seven Dash X Bunko volumes.
Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London: annually elected head of the City of London Corporation for the Square Mile, created by King John's 1215 charter, distinct from the Mayor of London. Current holder Dame Susan Langley, 697th and first styled Lady Mayor.
Lord Mengchang's escape through the Hangu Pass
Lord Mengchang's escape through the Hangu Pass (鸡鸣狗盗) was the 299 BC escape of Qi's chancellor Tian Wen from Qin, aided by retainers who stole like a dog and imitated a cock's crow.
Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten (Earl Mountbatten of Burma, "Dickie") was a British admiral and statesman: WWII Chief of Combined Operations and Dieppe planner, Supreme Allied Commander SEAC 1943-46, last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India 1947-48, First Sea Lord 1955-59, assassinated by the IRA in 1979.
Lord Nicholas Windsor
Lord Nicholas Windsor (born 1970), youngest son of the Duke of Kent, converted to Catholicism in 2001, losing his succession place; married Paola Doimi de Lupis Frankopan in 2006; three sons; Catholic pro-life patronages.
Lord of Ansi
The Lord of Ansi (안시성주) was the Goguryeo commander who held Ansi fortress against Emperor Taizong of Tang's siege in 645, forcing the Tang army to withdraw.
Lord of Illusions
Lord of Illusions: 1995 American horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, adapted from his short story 'The Last Illusion' (Books of Blood Vol. 6), starring Scott Bakula as detective Harry D'Amour; Barker's third and final feature as director.