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Lana Lang
Lana Lang is a DC Comics character, Clark Kent's Smallville childhood sweetheart, created by Bill Finger and John Sikela, debuting in Superboy #10 (1950); alter egos include Insect Queen and Superwoman, with screen versions played by Annette O'Toole, Kristin Kreuk, and Emmanuelle Chriqui.
Lana Lang (Smallville)
Lana Lang (Smallville) is the Smallville TV series version of Clark Kent's first love, played by Kristin Kreuk in 158 episodes over eight seasons; defined by the 1989 meteor that killed her parents, the Talon coffeehouse, a marriage to Lex Luthor, and a much-criticized, secret-burdened romance with Clark.
Lana Parrilla
Lana Parrilla, American actress of Italian and Puerto Rican descent born 1977 in Brooklyn, best known as Regina Mills/the Evil Queen on ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), with earlier roles in Spin City, Boomtown, and 24 and later work in Why Women Kill, Atlas, and The Rainmaker.
Lana Prusakova
Lana Prusakova (Лана Алексеевна Прусакова), Russian freestyle skier born 2000 in Novocheboksarsk; 2016 Youth Olympic slopestyle gold medalist, 2021 World Championships big air silver medalist, 14th in slopestyle at PyeongChang 2018.
Lana Rhoades
Lana Rhoades (born Amara Maple, 1996, Chicago) is an American media personality and former adult film performer (2016-2017, 2017 XBIZ Best New Starlet) who became an Instagram creator, podcaster, fashion model, and OnlyFans entrepreneur.
Lana Tisdel
Lana Tisdel, Falls City, Nebraska woman, girlfriend of Brandon Teena; dated him December 1993, testified at John Lotter's murder trial, and settled a lawsuit over her portrayal in Boys Don't Cry.
Lana Turner
Lana Turner (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, 1921–1995), American MGM film star, Sweater Girl image, Oscar-nominated for Peyton Place, starred in The Postman Always Rings Twice and Imitation of Life; seven marriages and the 1958 Stompanato killing.
Lana Wood
Lana Wood (Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin, born 1946) is an American actress and producer, sister of Natalie Wood, known as young Debbie Edwards in The Searchers and Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Lanabecestat
Lanabecestat (AZD3293, LY3314814) is an oral BACE1 inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly for early Alzheimer disease; its AMARANTH and DAYBREAK-ALZ trials failed and the program was discontinued in June 2018.
Lanadelumab
Lanadelumab (Takhzyro) is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody inhibiting plasma kallikrein, FDA-approved in 2018 to prevent hereditary angioedema attacks in patients aged 2 years and older by subcutaneous injection every 2 or 4 weeks.
Lanai
Lanai (Lānaʻi), sixth-largest Hawaiian island, 141 sq mi extinct volcano in Maui County; Dole pineapple plantation 1922-1992, once world's largest; 98% owned by Larry Ellison since 2012; economy now tourism.
Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire (County of Lanark, Siorrachd Lanraig) is a historic county of southern Scotland containing Glasgow, divided into Upper, Middle, and Lower Wards, absorbed into Strathclyde region in 1975 and since 1996 split among North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, and Glasgow council areas.
Lanaudière
Lanaudière, Quebec administrative region 14 on the north shore of the St. Lawrence between Laurentides and Mauricie; six MRCs, 569,335 residents (2025), largest city Terrebonne, named for the Tarieu de Lanaudière seigneurial family.
Lancai Wang
Lancai Wang (懒财网) was a Beijing-based online wealth-management and P2P lending platform founded by Tao Weijie in 2013, which reported RMB 23.4 billion in lending before a 2019 police case.
Lancashire
Lancashire, a county in North West England (Lancashire-12/Lancashire-14), with population, GDP, two-tier local government, and the paused 2026 four-unitary reorganisation.
Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire County Cricket Club, founded 12 January 1864 and based at Old Trafford, is a first-class English county club; multiple County Championship titles, record one-day honours, and a professional women's Tier 1 double-winning team.
Lancashire Fusiliers
The Lancashire Fusiliers, raised in 1688 as Sir Robert Peyton's Regiment of Foot and later the 20th Regiment of Foot, was a British infantry regiment famous for six Victoria Crosses at Gallipoli in 1915, amalgamated into the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968.
Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial
Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial, a 1922 Grade II Portland stone obelisk by Edwin Lutyens in Gallipoli Gardens, Bury, commemorating 13,642 First World War Fusilier dead, later the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers' Lancashire memorial.
Lancaster
Lancaster is a 2011 worker placement board game by Matthias Cramer (Queen Games) set in 1413 England under Henry V; knights of strength 1-4 can displace rivals, and players vote on laws in parliament.
Lancaster Castle (United Kingdom)
Lancaster Castle, also called John O'Gaunt's Castle, is a Grade I listed medieval castle, former prison, and working Crown Court in Lancaster, Lancashire, site of the 1612 Lancashire witch trials.
Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States
Lancaster County, Nebraska: second most populous Nebraska county, seat Lincoln (state capital), 334,049 residents (2025 est.), 837.56 sq mi, founded 1859, home of University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: county in south-central PA along the Susquehanna River, formed May 10, 1729 as the state's fourth county; seat Lancaster city; about 563,000 residents, strong agriculture, large Amish community, 60 municipalities.
Lancaster House
Lancaster House, once called Stafford House, is a 19th-century former aristocratic palace near Buckingham Palace, now run by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office as a venue for government hospitality, conferences, and international summits.
Lancaster House Agreement
The Lancaster House Agreement, signed 21 December 1979 in London, ended Rhodesia's civil war, agreed Zimbabwe's independence constitution and a ceasefire among Britain, the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia administration, and the Mugabe-Nkomo Patriotic Front, with entrenched willing-buyer willing-seller land clauses for ten years.
Lancaster Oil and Gas Field
Lancaster is an oil field about 95 km west of Shetland, the first UK field to produce oil from fractured granite basement, with first oil in May 2019.
Lancaster University
Lancaster University: public collegiate research university at Bailrigg, Lancaster, England, founded 1964. Also University of Lancaster. Top 10 UK (CUG 2027), REF 2021 91% world-leading research, 29,000 students, nine colleges, QS 164th globally.
Lancaster, California
Lancaster, California: high-desert Antelope Valley city in northern Los Angeles County, about 60 miles from Los Angeles. Founded as an 1876 Southern Pacific railroad water stop, incorporated 1977; about 170,000 residents, aerospace- and healthcare-driven economy.
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster, Lancashire: historic county town on the River Lune, England, named for its Roman fort; borough charter 1193, seat of the Duchy of Lancaster, home of Lancaster University, 145,006 district population (2025).
Lancaster, PA Metro Area
Lancaster, PA Metro Area (CBSA 29540) is a one-county metropolitan statistical area coterminous with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, anchored by Lancaster city; 2025 population 563,159, 104th-largest U.S. metro, about 70 miles west of Philadelphia.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, county seat of Lancaster County, founded 1730, city 1818, one-day U.S. capital in 1777 and state capital 1799–1812; about 58,000 residents, 40% Latino, historic Central Market.