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Lance McCullers Jr.
Lance McCullers Jr. (born 1993, Tampa) is a right-handed MLB pitcher, Astros 41st overall pick in 2012, 2017 All-Star and World Series champion, career 53-40, 3.85 ERA, later traded to the Brewers in 2026.
Lance Palmer
Lance Palmer, American featherweight MMA fighter (b. 1988, Ohio), four-time Ohio State All-American wrestler, two-time PFL champion (2018, 2019, $1 million each) and two-time WSOF champion; record reported 23-6 to 23-8.
Lance Parrish
Lance Parrish, "Big Wheel" (born 1956, Clairton, PA), American MLB catcher 1977-1995, mainly Detroit Tigers; 1984 World Series champion, 8x All-Star, 3 Gold Gloves, 6 Silver Sluggers, 324 career home runs.
Lance Reddick
Lance Solomon Reddick, American character actor (The Wire's Cedric Daniels, Fringe's Broyles, John Wick's Charon) and voice of Destiny's Zavala and Horizon's Sylens; born Baltimore, died March 17, 2023, Los Angeles, age 60.
Lance Rentzel
Lance Rentzel, born Thomas Lance Rentzel, was an American professional football wide receiver who played nine NFL seasons for the Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, and Los Angeles Rams.
Lance Reventlow
Lance Reventlow (Lawrence Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow), Woolworth heir and racing driver, founded Reventlow Automobiles Inc. in 1957 and built the Scarab, winning the 1958 LA Times Grand Prix and entering Formula 1 in 1960; died in a 1972 plane crash.
Lance Royle
Lance Royle (Lancelot Carrington Royle, 1898-1978), British sprinter and businessman; silver medalist in the 4x100 m relay at the 1924 Paris Olympics, later a Unilever and NAAFI executive and KBE.
Lance Schroyer
Richard "Lance" Schroyer, former Oklahoma Highway Patrol major and DHS adviser to Markwayne Mullin, was Trump's June 2026 nominee for ICE director; the White House withdrew the stalled nomination in September 2026.
Lance Stephenson
Lance Stephenson, "Born Ready," born 1990 in Brooklyn, is an American basketball guard/forward, New York State's all-time high school scoring leader (2,946 points), Cincinnati's 2010 Big East Rookie of the Year, and a 2010 second-round Pacers pick who played 10 NBA seasons.
Lance Storm
Lance Storm (Lance Evers), Canadian professional wrestler from Calgary; ECW, WCW, WWE competitor; only WCW wrestler to hold three titles at once; later founded Storm Wrestling Academy.
Lance Stroll
Lance Stroll (born 1998) is a Canadian Formula One driver racing for Aston Martin since 2021, previously Williams and Racing Point; son of team owner Lawrence Stroll, with three podiums, one pole, and 325 career points.
Lance Sweets
Lance Sweets is a fictional FBI psychologist and profiler on the TV series Bones, played by John Francis Daley from season 3 until his death in the season 10 premiere, killed off when Daley's Vacation directing schedule conflicted.
Lance Uggla
Lance Uggla is a Canadian financial information entrepreneur who founded Markit in London in 2003 and led IHS Markit through its 2022 merger with S&P Global.
Lance Von Erich
Lance Von Erich, real name William Kevin Vaughan, was a fake cousin added to the Von Erich wrestling family in WCCW in 1985, exposed on TV by Kerry Von Erich in 1987 after Vaughan left for a rival promotion.
Lance Wallnau
Lance Wallnau is an American charismatic Christian author, media personality, and self-described apostolic teacher who introduced the Seven Mountains Mandate and became a prominent spiritual supporter of Donald Trump.
Lance Wyman
Lance Wyman, born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1937, is an American graphic designer known for the Mexico 68 Olympics logotype and the Mexico City Metro's station icons.
Lance Y. Gokongwei
Lance Y. Gokongwei is a Filipino business executive who has been president and CEO of JG Summit Holdings since 2018 and chairs Cebu Air and Universal Robina.
LanceDB
LanceDB is an open-source, embedded retrieval database built on the Lance columnar format, designed for vector search over multimodal AI data such as embeddings, text, images, video, and audio.
Lancelet
Lancelet (amphioxus, cephalochordate): small burrowing marine filter-feeder, basal chordate subphylum Cephalochordata, ~35 species in Branchiostoma, Epigonichthys, Asymmetron; notochord, no backbone, no genome duplication; key evo-devo model.
Lancelet anatomy and development
Lancelet anatomy and development covers the body plan and embryology of amphioxus, a small transparent marine chordate used as a reference for the ancestral chordate.
Lancelet biology and ecology
Lancelets, also called amphioxus, are about 25 species of small fish-shaped marine invertebrates that live partially buried in clean coastal sand, filter food from the water, and serve as indicators of ecosystem health.
Lancelet evolution and paleontology
Lancelets (amphioxus, Cephalochordata) are basal chordates that split from vertebrates and tunicates about 520-550 million years ago; their slow-evolving genomes and Cambrian fossils like Cathaymyrus and Yunnanozoon illuminate vertebrate origins.
Lancelot
Lancelot du Lac, knight of Arthur's Round Table and lover of Queen Guinevere; invented by Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1180), developed in the 13th-century Prose Lancelot and Lancelot-Grail cycle, father of Galahad, central to Malory's Morte Darthur.
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), bishop of Winchester, court preacher, and director of the First Westminster Company of King James Bible translators; formative Anglican theologian of the via media, famed for sermons Eliot ranked among the finest English prose.
Lancelot-Grail
The Lancelot-Grail, also called the Vulgate cycle or Prose Lancelot, is a vast Old French prose cycle of Arthurian romances composed about 1215 to 1235.
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Le Chevalier de la Charrette) is an Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1180, in which Lancelot rescues Queen Guenevere.
Lancer
Lancer: a cavalry soldier armed with a lance; also called uhlans in Germany. Famous regiments include the British 16th and 17th Lancers (Balaklava 1854) and today's Royal Lancers.
Lancer (role-playing game)
Lancer is a 2019 sci-fi mech tabletop RPG by Miguel Lopez and Tom Bloom (Massif Press), funded at $432,029 on Kickstarter, splitting rules-light narrative play from D&D 4e-style tactical mech combat, with the free COMP/CON companion app.
Lancer (TV series)
Lancer (TV series): American CBS Western drama, 1968-1970, created by Samuel A. Peeples, 51 episodes; Murdoch Lancer (Andrew Duggan) and half-brother sons Scott (Wayne Maunder) and Johnny Madrid (James Stacy) defend a 100,000-acre California ranch.
Lancet (drone)
The Lancet, or ZALA Lancet, is a Russian kamikaze drone made by ZALA Aero Group, shown in 2019 and used mainly against Ukrainian artillery since the 2022 invasion.