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Loring A. Wyllie Jr.
Loring A. Wyllie Jr. (born 1938) is an American structural engineer who spent his career at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco, specializing in seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings.
Loris
Lorises: nocturnal Asian strepsirrhine primates of Lorisidae, subfamily Lorisinae, genera Loris (slender lorises) and Nycticebus plus Xanthonycticebus (pygmy lorises); slow-climbing, venomous, CITES Appendix I.
Loris Campana
Loris Campana (1926–2015), Italian amateur track pursuit cyclist. Olympic gold in the men's team pursuit at Helsinki 1952 with De Rossi, Messina, Morettini; world bronze 1952, silver 1953; Italian pursuit champion 1955.
Loris Karius
Loris Karius (Loris Sven Karius, born 1993) is a German goalkeeper at Schalke 04, formerly of Liverpool, whose two errors in the 2018 Champions League final were later linked to a concussion; he rebuilt his career with Schalke's 2025/26 promotion.
Loris Malaguzzi
Loris Malaguzzi (1920-1994), Italian pedagogist, founder of the Reggio Emilia Approach to early childhood education; known for the hundred languages of children, the environment as third teacher, and Reggio Children.
Lorisidae
Lorisidae is a family of small, nocturnal, arboreal primates known as lorises and pottos, native to sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, with four living genera.
Lorium
Lorium (Lorii, Laurium) was a Roman posting station on the Via Aurelia, 12 miles from Rome, at Castel di Guido; the estate of Antoninus Pius, who was raised there, built a palace, and died there in 161 AD.
Lorius
Lorius is a genus of six lory parrot species in Psittaculidae, erected by Vigors in 1825 with the purple-naped lory as type, ranging from the Moluccas through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands; L. domicella and L. garrulus are Vulnerable.
Lormetazepam
Lormetazepam is a benzodiazepine hypnotic with a half-life of 8 to 12 hours used for short-term treatment of insomnia, first approved in Germany in 1980.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lorna Dee Cervantes (born 1954) is an American poet, a major voice in Chicana literature, known for Emplumada (1981), which won the American Book Award, and From the Cables of Genocide (1991).
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. Blackmore's 1869 Victorian historical romance set on Exmoor, telling of farmer John Ridd and Lorna of the outlaw Doone clan; slow-selling three-decker that became a lasting classic.
Lorna G. Schofield
Lorna G. Schofield is an American jurist, a federal district judge in Manhattan appointed by Barack Obama in 2012 and reportedly the first Filipino American Article III judge.
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison is a Jamaican poet, painter, and memoirist who served as Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017 to 2020, the first woman in the role.
Lorna Kapunan
Lorna Patajo-Kapunan (born 1952) is a Filipino litigation lawyer, founder of Kapunan & Castillo Law Offices, CCP vice chairperson, and a pro bono private prosecutor in Sara Duterte's 2026 impeachment trial.
Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft (born 1952), American actress, singer, author, and Emmy-nominated producer; daughter of Judy Garland and Sid Luft, half-sister of Liza Minnelli; known for Grease 2, Me and My Shadows, and Songs My Mother Taught Me.
Lorna Morello
Lorna Morello (later Morello Muccio) is a fictional inmate in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, played by Australian actress Yael Stone. Affecting red lipstick and an invented Brooklyn-Boston accent, she is revealed as a stalker imprisoned for attempted murder.
Lorna Patterson
Lorna Patterson (born 1956, Whittier, California) is an American actress and Jewish cantor, known as Randy the singing stewardess in Airplane! (1980) and as Pvt. Judy Benjamin in the Private Benjamin TV series (1981–83).
Lorna Shore
Lorna Shore is an American deathcore band formed in 2010 in New Jersey, known for symphonic blackened deathcore, the 2021 viral hit "To The Hellfire", vocalist Will Ramos, and albums Pain Remains (2022) and I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025).
Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an American artist known for large-scale photograph-and-text works with staged images of Black figures; in 1990 she became the first African American woman shown at the Venice Biennale.
Lorna Slater
Lorna Slater is a Scottish Green Party politician and former tidal energy engineer, an MSP since 2021 who co-led the Scottish Greens with Patrick Harvie and served as a minister.
Lorna W. Role
Lorna W. Role is an American neuroscientist studying cholinergic signaling in memory circuits, who led NINDS intramural research as Scientific Director from 2019 to 2021.
Lorne (Angel)
Lorne (Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan, the Host) is the green empath demon of Angel, played by Andy Hallett, who reads futures when people sing at Caritas and joins Angel Investigations.
Lorne (film)
Lorne (2026) is a Morgan Neville documentary about Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, released by Focus Features April 17, 2026; 101 minutes, R, with interviews of SNL alumni, grossing $449,135 domestically.
Lorne Babiuk
Lorne Babiuk is a Canadian veterinary virologist who directed the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan from 1993 to 2007, developing vaccines that save the cattle industry hundreds of millions annually.
Lorne Currie
Lorne Campbell Currie (1871-1926), British sailor born in Le Havre, France; owner of the yacht Scotia and winner of two gold medals in sailing at the 1900 Paris Olympics at Meulan; Royal Army Service Corps captain.
Lorne G. Everett
Lorne G. Everett is a hydrologist and subsurface-contamination engineer, chancellor of Lakehead University from 2000 to 2009, known for EPA-endorsed groundwater monitoring and cleanup methods.
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene (1915–1987), born Lyon Chaim Green in Ottawa, was a Canadian actor and CBC wartime newscaster called the Voice of Doom, best known as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza and Commander Adama in Battlestar Galactica.
Lorne Loomer
Lorne Kenneth Loomer (1937-2017), Canadian rower of the UBC "Cinderella 4"; won gold in the men's coxless four at Melbourne 1956, Canada's first Olympic rowing gold, and founded the University of Victoria rowing program.
Lorne Malvo
Lorne Malvo is the drifter hit man played by Billy Bob Thornton as the devil-like antagonist of Fargo (FX) season 1, who corrupts Lester Nygaard in Bemidji, Minnesota, and is shot by Gus Grimly in the finale.
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American television producer born 1944 in Toronto, created NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1975, left in 1980, returned in 1985, and also produces Late Night and The Tonight Show.