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Lou Reed
Lou Reed (Lewis Allan Reed, 1942–2013), American singer-songwriter and Velvet Underground frontman, the "Godfather of Punk"; solo hits "Walk on the Wild Side" and Transformer, feedback album Metal Machine Music, 22 studio albums, two-time Rock Hall inductee.
Lou Romano
Lou Romano (born 1972, San Diego) is an American animator and voice actor, a Pixar production designer on The Incredibles and voice of Alfredo Linguini in Ratatouille, Bernie Kropp in The Incredibles, and Snot Rod in Cars; he moved to LAIKA in 2009.
Lou Rui Tomb Murals
The Lou Rui Tomb murals (娄睿墓壁画) are the wall paintings of a Northern Qi princely tomb in Taiyuan, Shanxi, dated 570 CE and excavated in 1979.
Lou Saban
Lou Saban (1921-2009), American football coach and former Cleveland Browns linebacker; head coach of the Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, and Denver Broncos; won AFL titles in 1964-65; not related to Nick Saban.
Lou Sanders
Lou Sanders, British stand-up comedian, writer and actor; won Taskmaster series 8 (2019), Edinburgh shows including Shame Pig, memoir What's That Lady Doing? (2023), co-host of Unforgivable.
Lou Shide
Lou Shide (娄师德, 630–699, courtesy name Zongren) was a Tang dynasty statesman and general from Zhengzhou who ran the northwestern frontier for over thirty years and served twice as chancellor under Empress Wu Zetian.
Lou Shuman
Lou Shuman is an American dental-industry entrepreneur who co-founded LightForce Orthodontics in 2015, maker of 3D-printed custom braces, after seven years as an Invisalign executive.
Lou Taylor Pucci
Lou Taylor Pucci (born 1985, Seaside Heights, NJ) is an American actor known for Thumbsucker (Sundance and Berlin prizes), Evil Dead (2013), You, Physical, and Daredevil: Born Again.
Lou Thesz
Lou Thesz (Aloysius Martin Thesz, 1916–2002) was an American professional wrestler who held the NWA world heavyweight championship over ten years, the longest in NWA history.
Lou Wall
Lou Wall is an Australian comedian, composer, and content creator known for multimedia musical comedy. Their shows include Breaking the Fifth Wall (MICF 2025 Most Outstanding Show nominee), The Bisexual's Lament, and Where Are All the Tall Grandmas?
Lou Whitaker
Lou Whitaker, "Sweet Lou" (Louis Rodman Whitaker Jr.), Detroit Tigers second baseman 1977-1995; 1978 AL Rookie of the Year, 1984 World Series winner, 75.1 career WAR, and 1,918 games alongside Alan Trammell.
Lou Williams
Lou Williams (born 1986) is a retired American NBA guard, the all-time leader in bench scoring with 13,396 points and a three-time Sixth Man of the Year (2015, 2018, 2019) over 17 seasons with six teams.
Lou Yue
Lou Yue (楼钥, 1137–1213) was a Song dynasty statesman, writer, and calligrapher from Mingzhou, near modern Ningbo, who served three emperors and rose to Participant in Determining Governmental Matters.
Lou Yun
Lou Yun (楼云) is a retired Chinese artistic gymnast from Hangzhou who won consecutive Olympic vault golds in 1984 and 1988, known as the 'King of Vaulting Horse.'
Lou Zocchi
Lou Zocchi (Louis Joseph Zocchi, 1935-2026), "Godfather of Dice," USAF veteran, wargame designer, and founder of Gamescience, first US polyhedral dice maker and inventor of the 100-sided Zocchihedron.
Lou-chuan (Tower-ship) navy
The Lou-chuan (Tower-ship) navy (楼船军) was the Han dynasty's armed force of large multi-deck tower-ships, raised on rivers and coasts for campaigns against southern states and Korea.
Lou-Chuang Lee (李罗权)
Lou-Chuang Lee (李罗权, born 1947) is a Taiwanese space plasma physicist known for his theory of magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause and for leading Taiwan's national space program.
Louay Mohamad Jamil Bazzi
Louay Mohamad Jamil Bazzi is a coding and information theorist who earned a Ph.D. from MIT in 2003 and teaches at the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon.
Loubetsi-Nyanga
Loubetsi-Nyanga, Ramsar Site no. 2221, is a 251,151-hectare wetland of international importance in Niari, Republic of the Congo, designated 2 February 2015, a biological reserve sheltering forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, and critically endangered slender-snouted crocodiles.
Loucas Fourlas
Loucas Fourlas, born 1969, is a Cypriot politician of the Democratic Rally and a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, after 23 years as a journalist.
Loucy
Loucy (LOUCY, CVCL_1380) is a human T-ALL cell line established in 1990 from a 38-year-old woman, the standard ETP-ALL model, BCL-2 dependent and venetoclax-sensitive, carrying SET-NUP214 and t(16;20).
Loud (Rihanna album)
Loud is Rihanna's fifth studio album, released November 2010 on Def Jam. A dance-pop and R&B return to fun after Rated R, it spawned seven singles including the Hot 100 chart-toppers Only Girl (In the World), What's My Name?, and S&M.
Loud Night
Loud Night is the sixth episode of Ted (2024) season 1, a Peacock Christmas installment aired January 11, 2024, directed by Seth MacFarlane and written by Julius Sharpe, in which Matty's wish brings toy truck Dennis to life.
Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs is a 1987 double-album compilation by the Smiths, released by Sire Records in the US on March 30, 1987; 24 tracks of singles, B-sides, and BBC sessions, peaking at number 62 on the Billboard 200 and number 38 in the UK, later RIAA and BPI gold.
Louder Than Love
Louder Than Love is Soundgarden's second studio album and major-label debut, released September 5, 1989 on A&M, produced by Terry Date, peaking at number 108 on the Billboard 200, and the last album with bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
Louder, Please
Louder, Please is the 2025 debut album by English pop singer Rose Gray, released 17 January 2025 on Polydor; 12 tracks of electropop, house, and jungle, Metascore 77, UK Record Store Chart peak number 6.
Loudermilk (TV series)
Loudermilk: American comedy-drama created by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Mort, starring Ron Livingston as a gruff recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor; three seasons, 2017-2020, Audience Network, later on Netflix.
Loudi
Loudi (娄底市) is a prefecture-level city in central Hunan, China; 8,117 km², 3.68 million people (2025), GDP 223.73 billion CNY. Known as the world antimony capital and a steel city, with world-first antimony reserves and province-first coal reserves.
Loudness
Loudness, also known as loudness perception, is the perceived intensity of a sound rather than its physical level, quantified in phons and sones through psychoacoustic models such as ISO 532.
Loudness (ラウドネス) (band)
Loudness (ラウドネス) is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in Osaka in 1981 by ex-LAZY members Akira Takasaki and Munetaka Higuchi; first Japanese metal band on a US major label, with Thunder in the East reaching Billboard No. 74.