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Lord of Light
Lord of Light is Roger Zelazny's 1967 science fiction novel, winner of the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, in which colonists rule a planet as the Hindu pantheon and Sam, posing as the Buddha, leads a rebellion; its unused film artwork became the CIA's Argo cover story.
Lord of Miracles
The Lord of Miracles (Señor de los Milagros) is a mural of the crucified Jesus in Lima, Peru, and Peru's most important Catholic devotion, with an annual October procession.
Lord of Misrule (film)
Lord of Misrule (2023) is a British folk horror film directed by William Brent Bell, written by Tom de Ville, starring Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson; a vicar's daughter vanishes at a harvest festival tied to the demon Gallowgog. Not the 1996 Guy Jenkin BBC comedy.
Lord of Mysteries (诡秘之主)
Lord of Mysteries (诡秘之主), Chinese web novel by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼), serialized on Qidian 2018–2020; Victorian-steampunk Cthulhu fantasy with 22 Sequence pathways, sequel Circle of Inevitability, Yen Press print, 2025 donghua.
Lord of Sipán
The Lord of Sipán (Señor de Sipán) was a Moche ruler of northern Peru whose intact royal tomb, found in 1987, held 451 grave objects.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, William Golding's 1954 Faber novel, follows schoolboys stranded on a Pacific island who descend into savagery. A deliberate reversal of Ballantyne's The Coral Island, it borrows the names Ralph and Jack, is a canonical school text, and was first adapted for television by Jack Thorne in 2026.
Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
Lord of the Flies (1963) is Peter Brook's black-and-white British adaptation of William Golding's 1954 novel, shot on Vieques, Puerto Rico, with 34 non-professional boys; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, Criterion release, distinct from the 1990 Harry Hook remake.
Lord of the Flies (1990 film)
Lord of the Flies (1990) is Harry Hook's American remake of Golding's novel, the second film adaptation after Peter Brook's 1963 version, recasting the boys as US military cadets, adding a pilot, credited to pseudonym Sara Schiff, and receiving mixed reviews.
Lord of the Flies (TV series)
Lord of the Flies (2026) is a four-episode BBC/Stan limited series, the first TV adaptation of Golding's novel, adapted by Jack Thorne, directed by Marc Munden, starring Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, and David McKenna, streaming on Netflix from May 4, 2026.
Lord of the Isles (locomotive)
Lord of the Isles was a broad gauge 4-2-2 express locomotive of the Great Western Railway's Iron Duke class, designed by Daniel Gooch and built at Swindon in 1851.
Lord of the manor
Lord of the manor: holder of a lordship of the manor, an incorporeal hereditament in England and Wales law; not nobility, no statutory rights, saleable, with manorial rights over minerals, sport, and markets preserved since 1926.
Lord of War
Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov, an international arms dealer selling Soviet bloc weapons.
Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Wimsey, full name Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey, is Dorothy L. Sayers's fictional aristocratic amateur detective, a shell-shocked WWI veteran appearing in eleven interwar novels (1923–1937) and 21 short stories, later adapted for television.
Lord Pethick-Lawrence
Lord Pethick-Lawrence (1871 to 1961) was a British Labour statesman who served as Secretary of State for India and Burma under Attlee from 1945 to 1947.
Lord Pingyuan's alliance mission to Chu
Lord Pingyuan's alliance mission to Chu (平原君定楚盟) was a Warring States diplomatic mission in which Zhao Sheng, Lord of Pingyuan, secured a covenant with Chu against besieging Qin.
Lord Pitt-Watson
Lord Pitt-Watson, born David Pitt-Watson, is a British Labour politician who became a life peer in 2026 and serves as a Parliamentary Secretary at HM Treasury.
Lord President of the Council
Lord President of the Council: senior UK Cabinet office heading the Privy Council Office; fourth Great Officer of State, usually combined with leading the House of Commons; current holder Sir Alan Campbell (2025).
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal, a UK Cabinet ministerial office once keeper of the privy seal (keeper from 1275, lord from 1487); seal abolished 1884; now pairs with Leader of the House of Lords, currently Baroness Smith of Basildon.
Lord Protector
Lord Protector: British title for a regent during a royal minority (Humphrey of Gloucester, Richard III) and for the republican head of state of the Protectorate, 1653–1659, held by Oliver and Richard Cromwell under the Instrument of Government.
Lord Randall
Lord Randall, or Lord Randal (Roud 10, Child 12), is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad of a mother questioning her poisoned son; earliest record is a 1629 Italian Verona printing of L'Avvelenato, and Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall derives from it.
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill (Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill), Victorian Conservative statesman, father of Winston Churchill, Tory Democracy advocate, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons in 1886, resigned the same year, died young.
Lord Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh, born John William Strutt, was a British physicist who worked on acoustics, optics, and gases, discovered argon, and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Lord Snow
Lord Snow is the third episode of Game of Thrones season 1, aired May 1, 2011 on HBO; written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Brian Kirk, it follows Ned, Jon, and Daenerys and is the series' first death-free episode.
Lord Soth
Lord Soth (Lord Loren Soth) is a Dragonlance death knight villain, a fallen Solamnic Knight of the Rose exiled to Dargaard Keep, later darklord of Sithicus in Ravenloft and a villain in Vecna: Eve of Ruin.
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz, a Bronx rap duo (Sean Hamilton, Peter Pankey), formed 1996; their 1997 platinum single "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" hit Billboard's top ten, and their only album, Make It Reign, followed in 1998.
Lord Tirek
Lord Tirek is a centaur villain in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, brother of Scorpan, who drains others' magic to grow stronger; debut villain of the season 4 finale, voiced by Mark Acheson.
Lord Todd
Lord Todd, also known as Alexander Todd, was a Scottish biochemist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
Lord True
Lord True is a British Conservative politician and life peer, Shadow Leader of the House of Lords since July 2024 after leading it in government from 2022.
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort, born Tom Marvolo Riddle (1926-1998), is the Dark wizard antagonist of the Harry Potter series, leader of the Death Eaters, maker of seven Horcruxes, and defeated by Harry Potter at the Battle of Hogwarts.
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports: English ceremonial office, also Admiral of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, once commanding south-east coast defense; current holder Admiral Sir George Zambellas, appointed 2024.