All articles starting with L

Luddites

Luddites, followers of the mythical Ned Ludd, were English textile workers who broke machinery in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire from 1811 to 1816, prompting the 1812 Frame-Breaking Act, 12,000 troops, and the York hangings of 1813.

Ludek Macela

Luděk Macela (1950–2016) was a Czechoslovak football defender and captain of the Czechoslovak team that won football gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and a longtime Dukla Praha player.

Sep 27, 2026

Luděk Niedermayer

Luděk Niedermayer, born in Brno in 1966, is a Czech TOP 09 politician and former vice-governor of the Czech National Bank who has served in the European Parliament since 2014.

Ludendorff Bridge

The Ludendorff Bridge, or Remagen Bridge, was a steel railway bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, captured intact by American forces on 7 March 1945.

Ludger

Ludger, also known as Liudger (c. 742–809), was a Frisian missionary educated under Alcuin at York who founded Werden Abbey and became the first Bishop of Münster, venerated as a saint.

Ludger Beerbaum

Ludger Beerbaum, born 1963 in Detmold, is a German show jumping rider with four Olympic golds (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000), world and European titles, and Beerbaum Stables in Riesenbeck.

Sep 21, 2026

Ludger Johannes

Ludger Johannes is a German-born cell biologist, Research Director at Inserm and team head at Institut Curie in Paris since 2001, known for retrograde transport and the GL-Lect hypothesis.

Ludger Sylbaris

Ludger Sylbaris, also Louis-Auguste Cyparis, a Martinican laborer jailed in Saint-Pierre, survived the 8 May 1902 Mount Pelée eruption in his solitary cell, one of two survivors in the city, later touring with Barnum & Bailey.

Ludger Woessmann

Ludger Woessmann is a German economist who directs the ifo Center for the Economics of Education in Munich and studies how cognitive skills drive economic growth.

Ludhiāna (district)

Ludhiāna (ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ) district, Punjab, India: headquarters at Ludhiana city, part of Patiala Division, named for the Lodi dynasty. Punjab's most populous district in Census 2011 (3,498,739) and India's bicycle-manufacturing hub.

Ludhiana (ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ)

Ludhiana (ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ), Punjab's largest city and industrial hub, founded by the Lodis as Lodhi-ana; known as the Manchester of India for hosiery and bicycle manufacturing, and for Buddha Nullah pollution.

Oct 15, 2026

Ludila hydroelectric plant

Ludila hydroelectric plant (鲁地拉水电站) is a 2,160 MW run-of-river hydropower station on the Jinsha River, the upper Yangtze, in Yunnan, China, the seventh of eight cascade stations and operated by China Huadian.

Ludimar Hermann

Ludimar Hermann (1838–1914) was a German physiologist and speech scientist, professor at Zurich and Königsberg, who discovered the Hermann grid illusion and coined the term vocal formants.

Sep 19, 2026

Ludingirra

Ludingirra (Lú-dingir-ra) was a Sumerian-language poet of Babylon, active before about 1700 BC, known for The Message of Ludingirra to his Mother and two elegies.

Oct 15, 2026

Ludington Pumped Storage Plant

The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility on Lake Michigan near Ludington, Michigan, built between 1969 and 1973, and once the largest in the world.

Ludivine Sagnier

Ludivine Sagnier (born 1979, Saint-Cloud) is a French actress known for François Ozon's Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 8 femmes, and Swimming Pool, Tinker Bell in Peter Pan, series Lupin and Franklin, and the Kourtrajmé acting school.

Ludjatako Corona

Ludjatako Corona is a 300 km wide corona on Venus at 12.5°S, 250.5°E in quadrangle V-40, IAU-approved in 2000, renamed from Ludjatako Mons, and named for the Creek giant turtle deity.

Ludlow

Ludlow is a historic market town in south Shropshire, England, near the Welsh border, population 10,041 (2021). Known for its Norman castle, Council of the Marches seat, around 500 listed buildings, 900-year-old market, and the Ludlow Food Festival begun in 1995.

Oct 15, 2026

Ludlow Castle

Ludlow Castle is a partly ruined medieval fortress in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, probably founded by Walter de Lacy around 1075 and later home to the Council in the Marches.

Ludlow Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre (April 20, 1914) was the killing of 21 striking Colorado coal miners and family members, including 11 children, by Colorado National Guardsmen aligned with Colorado Fuel and Iron, during the UMWA's 1913-14 coalfield strike.

Sep 19, 2026

Ludlul bēl nēmeqi

Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, also called the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is an Akkadian poem in which the official Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan recounts his disgrace, illness, and recovery through the god Marduk's mercy.

Oct 20, 2026

Ludmila Narozhilenko Engquist

Ludmila Narozhilenko Engquist (Людмила Нарожиленко-Энквист), Russian-born Swedish hurdler, born 1964; 1996 Olympic 100 m hurdles champion, world champion 1991 and 1997, later banned for steroids in bobsleigh.

Oct 22, 2026

Ludmila of Bohemia

Ludmila of Bohemia (svatá Ludmila, c. 860–921) was a Přemyslid princess who married Bořivoj I and was murdered at Tetín in 921, becoming the earliest canonized saint of the Czech lands.

Ludmila Rattis

Ludmila Rattis (Ludmila Maria Rattis Teixeira) is a Brazilian ecologist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and IPAM who studies ecological thresholds of the Amazon and Cerrado.

Ludmila Y. Frolova

Ludmila Y. Frolova is a Russian molecular biologist at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow who identified the conserved GGQ motif of translation release factors.

Ludmilla (singer)

Ludmilla (Ludmila Oliveira da Silva, born 1995), formerly MC Beyoncé and MC Ludmilla, is a Brazilian funk carioca, pop, R&B and pagode singer; first Afro-Latin woman past one billion Spotify streams, Latin Grammy winner, 2024 Coachella main-stage performer.