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Lothar Kurbjuweit
Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 1950, Seerhausen) is a German former defender, 66-cap East Germany international, Olympic gold medalist 1976 and bronze medalist 1972, 1974 World Cup squad member, and Carl Zeiss Jena player, coach, and president.
Lothar Ledderose
Lothar Ledderose (born 1942 in Munich) is a German art historian of East Asian art, best known for the modular mass-production thesis in his 2000 book Ten Thousand Things.
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Matthäus, born 1961, German midfielder and sweeper; 150-cap record international, 1990 World Cup-winning captain, Ballon d'Or 1990, first FIFA World Player of the Year 1991, Bayern and Inter star.
Lothar Metz
Lothar Metz (1939-2021), East German Greco-Roman wrestler, won Olympic gold at Mexico 1968, silver at Rome 1960, and bronze at Tokyo 1964 in middleweight, competing at four Games.
Lothar Thoms
Lothar Thoms (1956–2017), East German track cyclist, 1,000 m time trial specialist; Olympic gold at Moscow 1980 in world-record 1:02.955 and four consecutive world titles (1977–1979, 1981).
Lothar von Richthofen
Lothar Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen (1894-1922), German WWI fighter ace and younger brother of the Red Baron, credited with 40 aerial victories with Jasta 11; died in a 1922 civil aviation crash near Hamburg.
Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer (born 1952) is a German plant physiologist and molecular biologist, founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm.
Lotharingia
Lotharingia (Lotharii regnum) was the Carolingian kingdom between East and West Francia, created for Lothar II in 855 from Lothar I's middle kingdom; about 110,000 km2 from the North Sea to the Alps, it ceased as a kingdom after 869 but left the ducal title of Lothier and a lasting Lotharingian identity.
Lothario
Lothario: heartless libertine in Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent (1703), also the Cervantes Don Quijote name; origin of the common noun for a seducer, 'the Gay Lothario.'
Lothian
Lothian: historic south-east Scottish region between the Forth and the Tweed, once part of Northumbria, transferred to Scottish rule by 973–1018; now East, Mid, and West Lothian council areas.
Lothlórien
Lothlórien, also called Lórien or the Golden Wood, is the Silvan Elf woodland realm of Galadriel and Celeborn in Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Misty Mountains between the Celebrant and Anduin, home of the mallorn trees, Caras Galadhon, and Cerin Amroth.
Lothrop Stoddard
Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950), American Harvard-trained historian, journalist, and white supremacist eugenicist; author of The Rising Tide of Color and Into the Darkness; testified for the 1924 Immigration Act and praised Nazi eugenics.
Lotilaner
Lotilaner (Credelio, XDEMVY) is an isoxazoline antiparasitic inhibiting arthropod GABA-gated chloride channels; used monthly in dogs and cats against fleas and ticks and as 0.25% eye drops for Demodex blepharitis.
Lotion
Lotion: a low-viscosity liquid or emulsion applied to skin, lighter than cream, gel, or ointment; IUPAC and USP definitions, site-specific uses, and BEE trial evidence on eczema emollients.
Lotka–Volterra competition model
The Lotka–Volterra competition model is a pair of differential equations describing how two species diminish each other's growth rate, and its coexistence conditions underlie the competitive exclusion principle.
Lotka–Volterra equations
Lotka–Volterra equations: pair of ODEs by Alfred Lotka (1920/1925) and Vito Volterra (1926) modeling predator-prey cycles; predicts periodic oscillations with predator peaks lagging prey, distinct from the LV competition model.
Lotlot de Leon
Lotlot de Leon is a Filipino actress active from the late 1980s, known for the horror hit Feng Shui (2004) and On the Job 2 (2021).
Lötschberg Base Tunnel
The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (Lötschberg-Basistunnel) is a 34.6-kilometer Swiss railway tunnel opened in 2007, running beneath the Bernese Alps between Frutigen and Raron as the first base tunnel of the New Rail Link through the Alps.
Lotta Crabtree
Lotta Crabtree (Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, 1847-1924) was an American actress, child star of the California Gold Rush, highest-paid US actress of the 1880s, donor of San Francisco's Lotta's Fountain, and philanthropist who left over $4 million to charity.
Lotta Edholm
Lotta Edholm is a Swedish politician of the Liberals, Minister for Upper Secondary School, Higher Education and Research since 2025 and the party's 2nd Deputy Leader.
Lotta Hitschmanova
Lotta Hitschmanova, born Lotta Hitschmann (1909–1990), was a Czech-born Canadian humanitarian who founded the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada in 1945, raising a reported $128.9 million for relief work.
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Danish medicinal chemist and co-inventor of liraglutide at Novo Nordisk (1989-2026), Chief Scientific Advisor for R&D; pioneered fatty acid acylation of GLP-1, led liraglutide and semaglutide biology, won the 2024 Lasker-DeBakey and 2025 Breakthrough Prize.
Lotte Corporation
Lotte Corporation (롯데지주) is the South Korean holding company of the Lotte Group, established in 2017 and holding 20 domestic subsidiaries including Lotte Shopping and Lotte Chemical.
Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis, born 1988, Danish distance freestyle swimmer; 2008 Olympic 800 m bronze, world 800 m gold Rome 2009 and 1,500 m gold Shanghai 2011; retired 2017.
Lotte Hotel Jeju Casino
Lotte Hotel Jeju Casino: former foreigner-only casino at Lotte Hotel Jeju, Seogwipo, opened 1985, acquired by Lotte Tourism Development 2018, relocated to Jeju Dream Tower in June 2021.
Lotte Jacobi
Lotte Jacobi (Johanna Alexandra Jacobi, 1896–1990) was a German-American portrait photographer associated with the New Vision movement, known for portraits of Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other leading figures of the twentieth century.
Lotte Kiærskou
Lotte Kiærskou (Lotte Faldborg Kiærskou), Danish handball playmaker born 1975 in Frederikshavn; two Olympic golds (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), 111 caps and 414 goals for Denmark, later a teacher in Viborg.
Lotte Kopecky
Lotte Kopecky, Belgian cyclist born 1995 in Rumst, rides for Team SD Worx-Protime. Two-time road world champion (2023, 2024), six track world titles, Paris-Roubaix 2024 and three Tour of Flanders wins.
Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer), Austrian-born American singer-actress (1898-1981), creator of Jenny in Brecht-Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Weill's wife and chief interpreter, later Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love, Tony winner 1956, founder of the Kurt Weill Foundation.
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger (Charlotte Reiniger) is a German animator and director who pioneered silhouette cut-out animation. Her work, including Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926), features techniques like the multiplane camera.