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Lucienne Velu
Lucienne Velu (Lucienne Antoinette Velu), French athlete and basketball player, 1902-1998. Discus world record 1924, 4x100 m relay world record 1928, over 30 French titles, 1934 Women's World Games basketball world champion.
Lucifer
Lucifer, from Hebrew Helel ben Shachar, is the Latin word for the morning star, Venus, which became a name for the Devil through the King James translation of Isaiah 14:12.
Lucifer (2019 Indian film)
Lucifer (ലൂസിഫർ) is a 2019 Malayalam political action thriller, Prithviraj Sukumaran's directorial debut, written by Murali Gopy and starring Mohanlal as Stephen Nedumpally; it grossed about ₹127.50 crore worldwide and spawned the sequel L2: Empuraan.
Lucifer (DC Comics)
Lucifer Morningstar, DC Comics' fallen angel and ex-ruler of Hell, debuted in The Sandman #4 (1989) and starred in Mike Carey's 75-issue Vertigo series (2000-2006), later adapted as the Tom Ellis TV show.
Lucifer (TV series)
Lucifer (TV series), also called Lucifer Morningstar series, is a Fox-then-Netflix urban fantasy crime drama created by Tom Kapinos from DC Vertigo characters, starring Tom Ellis, 2016-2021, six seasons, canceled by Fox and revived by Netflix.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (星のサミダレ)
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (惑星のさみだれ, Wakusei no Samidare) is a completed 2005-2010 seinen manga by Satoshi Mizukami about a knight serving a princess who wants to conquer Earth, adapted into a widely criticized 24-episode 2022 anime by studio NAZ.
Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
Lucifer Morningstar is the Devil character from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, expanded in Mike Carey's 75-issue Vertigo comic, and played by Tom Ellis in the TV series Lucifer (Fox 2016, Netflix 2019-2021), an LAPD consultant who abandons Hell for Los Angeles.
Lucifer Yellow
Lucifer Yellow (LY) is a highly fluorescent, membrane-impermeant dye introduced in 1978 by Walter W. Stewart for labeling cells by intracellular injection and tracing cell-to-cell communication through gap junctions.
Lucifer's Hammer
Lucifer's Hammer (1977), a post-apocalyptic disaster novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, follows the comet Hamner-Brown, "The Hammer," whose fragments strike Earth (Hammerfall) and destroy civilization; California survivors around Senator Jellison's ranch battle a cannibal army. Hugo nominee.
Luciferase
Luciferase, also called firefly luciferase (FLuc), is the enzyme family catalyzing luciferin oxidation to emit bioluminescent light; key systems include ATP-dependent beetle luciferases and coelenterazine-using Renilla, Gaussia, and NanoLuc, widely used as reporter genes.
Luciferase assay
A luciferase assay measures light from a luciferase reporter enzyme in cell lysates, living cells, or whole animals as a quantitative proxy for promoter activity, gene expression, or ATP.
Luciferase immunoprecipitation system assay
The luciferase immunoprecipitation system (LIPS) assay is a liquid-phase serological method, published in 2009, that quantifies serum antibodies against a luciferase-tagged antigen without radioisotopes or per-antigen optimization.
Luciferianism
Luciferianism, also called Luciferism, is a modern religious and philosophical current with theistic, atheistic, and Jungian forms that treats Lucifer as a figure of enlightenment and self-liberation rather than evil, distinct from Satanism.
Lucigenin
Lucigenin, also written bis-N-methylacridinium nitrate, is a dicationic acridinium compound used as a chemiluminescent probe for detecting superoxide production by enzymes, cells, and tissues, though redox cycling can overestimate it.
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973), Slovenian composer, conductor, pianist, critic, and musicologist; wrote five symphonies and many concertos, taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, led the Slovene Philharmonia, and won the 1971 Prešeren lifetime-achievement award.
Lucila Gamero de Medina
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) was a Honduran novelist, physician, and feminist activist, the first Honduran novelist, best known for Blanca Olmedo, the first novel by a woman in Central America.
Lucile Godbold
Lucile Ellerbe "Ludy" Godbold (1900-1981), American track and field athlete and educator; won the shot put with a world record at the 1922 Women's World Games in Paris, then taught physical education at Columbia College, South Carolina, for 58 years.
Lucile Randon
Lucile Randon, Sister André (Sœur André), French nun and supercentenarian (1904–2023), oldest validated living person 2022–2023; died at 118 years 340 days, the fourth-oldest authenticated person ever and oldest nun documented.
Lucilian satire
Lucilian satire is the body of verse satires by Roman poet Gaius Lucilius, written from about 130 BC; Horace named him the inventor of Roman verse satire.
Lucilius
Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–102/1 BC) was a Roman poet of Suessa Aurunca who wrote thirty books of satires from about 130 BC and helped establish Roman verse satire.
Lucilla
Lucilla (Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla, 149-181), Roman empress, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, wife of Lucius Verus, then Claudius Pompeianus; sister of Commodus, exiled to Capri and executed after the failed 182 conspiracy against him.
Lucille (guitar)
Lucille is the name B.B. King gave all his guitars after rescuing a Gibson L-30 from a 1949 Twist, Arkansas fire; the Gibson signature ES-355 without f-holes launched in 1980.
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball (1911–1989), American comedian and actress, star and co-owner of I Love Lucy, radio's My Favorite Husband lead, and first woman to head a major Hollywood studio as president of Desilu.
Lucille Bogan
about 20 words: Lucille Bogan, also known as Bessie Jackson, was an American blues singer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for her explicit lyrics.
Lucille Opitz
Lucille Opitz, born 1977 in Berlin, is a German former speed skater who won gold in the women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
Lucille Shapiro
Lucille (Lucy) Shapiro is an American molecular biologist at Stanford who established Caulobacter crescentus as a model for cell differentiation and won the 2011 National Medal of Science.
Lucille Soong
Lucille Soong (宋静秀), Chinese-born American actress born in Beijing in 1935, active since 1959; played Popo in The Joy Luck Club, Yao Lin in Desperate Housewives, and Grandma Huang in ABC's Fresh Off the Boat.
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley, also known as Lucinda Edmonds, was an Irish novelist best known for the Seven Sisters series inspired by the Pleiades, published from 2014 to 2023.
Lucinda Strafford
Lucinda Strafford is a British reality television personality and businesswoman known for four Love Island appearances, winning Love Island Games in 2025 and finishing runner-up in Australia in 2023.
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams (born 1953, Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner; her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was the alt-country breakthrough, followed by Highway 20 double albums, a 2020 stroke, and the 2026 protest album World's Gone Wrong.