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Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons (Lucia Carter, 1851 or c. 1853–1942), American anarchist, labor organizer, and widow of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons; edited Freedom and The Liberator, attended the 1905 IWW founding convention, and died in a Chicago house fire.
Lucy Pevensie
Lucy Pevensie, Queen Lucy the Valiant, is the youngest Pevensie sibling in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; born 1932 in the timeline, she first enters Narnia through the wardrobe, reigns at Cair Paravel, and appears in five of the seven books.
Lucy Pinder
Lucy Pinder (Lucy Katherine Pinder) is an English glamour model, TV personality, and actress, born 1983 in Winchester, discovered on Bournemouth beach in 2003, known for Nuts and Daily Star covers, Celebrity Big Brother, and film roles.
Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter, English stand-up comedian and writer (also a Radio 4 panel regular). First gig 1995 in Chester; 16 Edinburgh Fringe shows; Celebrity Mastermind Champion; married to comedian Justin Edwards.
Lucy Punch
Lucy Punch is a British actress born 1977 in London, known for comedy roles in Doc Martin, The Class, Motherland, and its BBC spin-off Amandaland, and films Bad Teacher, Hot Fuzz, and Into the Woods.
Lucy Rigby
Lucy Clementine Moores Rigby (born 1982) is the British Labour MP for Northampton North and King's Counsel serving as Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) since July 2026, after stints as Solicitor General and Chief Secretary; former Hausfeld competition-litigation partner.
Lucy S. Tompkins
Lucy S. Tompkins is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Stanford, known for her 1990 paper identifying the agent of bacillary angiomatosis and for tracing Legionella outbreaks.
Lucy Schulman
Lucy Schulman is a 2026 American comedy-drama-romance, Ellie Sachs's feature debut as writer, director, and star, premiered at Tribeca's U.S. Narrative Competition, acquired by Aero Films for theatrical release in early 2027.
Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro is an American developmental biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies the bacterial cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus and received the 2025 Lasker~Koshland Award.
Lucy Spoors
Lucy Spoors, New Zealand rower (born 1990, Christchurch): Tokyo 2020 women's eight silver, Paris 2024 double sculls gold with Brooke Francis; first crew of mothers to win an Olympic rowing medal.
Lucy Spraggan
Lucy Spraggan is an English singer-songwriter born in 1991 who was the first X Factor contestant to perform her own songs and has released eight albums.
Lucy spy ring
The Lucy spy ring, formally the Rote Drei (Red Three), was a Soviet espionage network in WWII Switzerland centered on Rudolf Rössler of Lucerne, who fed Moscow German High Command intelligence including the 1941 invasion order of battle and Kursk warnings.
Lucy Steeds
Lucy Steeds (born 1994, London) is a British novelist whose debut The Artist (John Murray Press, 2025), set in 1920s Provence, won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025.
Lucy Stephan
Lucy Stephan, Australian rower (born 1991, Nhill, Victoria), Olympic gold medallist in the women's coxless four at Tokyo 2020, two-time world champion (2017, 2019), three-time Olympian, OAM.
Lucy Suchman
Lucy Suchman is an anthropologist of technology whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions challenged AI's planning model; she later became a critic of autonomous weapons.
Lucy Thomas (singer)
Lucy Thomas, born 2004 in Wigan, Lancashire, is an English classical crossover and musical theatre singer, a 2018 The Voice Kids UK semi-finalist, Cavendish Records artist with six studio albums, and the title-role star of Rosie at the Adelphi Theatre.
Lucy Underdown
Lucy Underdown, British strongwoman (active 2020-2026), first woman to deadlift 700 lb (318 kg), three-time Britain's Strongest Woman (2024-2026), 2023 Europe's Strongest Woman, and serving police officer.
Lucy Van Pelt
Lucy Van Pelt (Lucille Van Pelt) is the fussbudget of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, debuted March 3, 1952. Known for her five-cent psychiatric booth, the football gag, tormented brother Linus, unrequited love for Schroeder, and her role as a feminist pop-culture symbol.
Lucy Verasamy
Lucy Verasamy, born in 1980, is a British meteorologist and weather presenter who has fronted ITV's national forecasts since 2012, after five years at Sky News.
Lucy Westenra
Lucy Westenra, fictional character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula: wealthy Victorian socialite, Mina Murray's best friend, Dracula's first English victim, destroyed by staking and beheading; subject of major critical debate and altered in most adaptations.
Lucy Wills
Lucy Wills (1888–1964), English hematologist, discovered the "Wills factor" in yeast extract (Marmite) that cures macrocytic anemia of pregnancy, identified in Bombay cotton mill workers 1928–1933; the factor was later recognized as folic acid.
Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley, born in 1973, is a British historian, writer, and BBC television presenter who served as joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces from 2003 to 2024 and has authored 19 books.
Lucy-Jo Hudson
Lucy-Jo Hudson, English actress born 1983 in Leeds; played Katy Harris in Coronation Street (2002–2005), Rosie Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2012), Sam in Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, Donna-Marie Quinn in Hollyoaks, and won the 2017 British Soap Awards Villain of the Year.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucile), British couturière 1863-1935, founded Lucile Ltd in London; pioneered mannequin parades, the modern fashion show, and named gowns; Titanic survivor; subject of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon.
Lucybell
Lucybell is a Chilean rock band formed in Santiago in 1991, a leading act of the 1990s renewal of Chilean rock, led by Claudio Valenzuela.
Luda 21-2/16-3 Oil Field
Luda 21-2/16-3 Oil Field (旅大21-2/16-3) is an offshore oil field in Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea under Tianjin, China, operated by CNOOC and producing since 2020.
Luda 4-2 Oil Field
Luda 4-2 Oil Field (旅大4-2) is an offshore heavy oil field in Liaodong Bay, China's Bohai Sea, discovered in 2002 and producing since 2005, operated by CNOOC.
Luda 5-2N Oil Field
Luda 5-2N Oil Field (旅大5-2北油田, also written Luda 5-2 North) is an offshore ultra-heavy oil field in Liaodong Bay, China's Bohai Sea, operated by CNOOC Limited.
Ludacris
Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges, born 1977, Champaign, Illinois) is an Atlanta rapper and actor of the Dirty South era, known for Word of Mouf, Chicken-N-Beer, three Grammys, and Tej Parker in the Fast and Furious films.
Ludacris discography
Ludacris discography: nine studio albums by Christopher Bridges, 1999-2015, from Incognegro to Ludaversal; four Billboard 200 number ones, Grammy-winning Release Therapy, plus singles and guest features.