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Ludo (Labyrinth)
Ludo is the gentle giant horned-beast puppet character in Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth; performed and voiced by Ron Mueck with Rob Mills, rescued by Sarah from goblins, and known for controlling rocks.
Ludo classic
Ludo classic names a casino in Aïn El Arbaa, Aïn Témouchent Province, Algeria (Arabic سيكلا, French Sikla), and several Ludo board-game adaptations: mobile apps by Sudhakar Kanakaraj and Dreamland Games, a Roblox game, and browser versions, all following classic Pachisi-descended rules.
Ludo King
Ludo King is a free-to-play mobile Ludo board game by India's Gametion Technologies, founded by Vikash Jaiswal, launched December 2016 on Unity; it passed one billion Google Play downloads and peaked at 51 million daily users in the 2020 lockdown.
Ludo Studio
Ludo Studio (Ludo Studio Pty Ltd) is an independent Brisbane production company founded in 2012 by Daley Pearson and Charlie Aspinwall, creator-producer of Bluey, The Strange Chores, Thou Shalt Not Steal, and the upcoming Bluey Movie (2027).
Ludo van Bogaert
Ludo van Bogaert (1897–1989) was a Belgian neurologist and neuropathologist in Antwerp who first described some 60 disease forms and founded the World Federation of Neurology.
Ludolf von Krehl
Ludolf von Krehl (1861–1937) was a German internist who led the Heidelberg Medical Clinic for 23 years, founded the Heidelberg school of psychosomatic medicine, and held that doctors treat patients, not diseases.
Ludolph Brauer
Ludolph Brauer (1865–1951) was a German internist who founded collapse therapy for tuberculosis, developed positive-pressure ventilation for open-chest surgery, and directed the Eppendorf hospital in Hamburg from 1910 to 1934.
Ludonarrative dissonance
Ludonarrative dissonance, coined by Clint Hocking in 2007 about BioShock, is the conflict between a video game's gameplay meanings and its story meanings; counterpart concept ludonarrative harmony.
Ludovic Berthier
Ludovic Berthier is a French CNRS physicist, since 2024 at ESPCI Paris, known for work on the glass transition, dynamic heterogeneities, and the 2017 swap Monte Carlo algorithm.
Ludovic Blas
Ludovic Blas is a French professional footballer born in 1997 who plays as an attacking midfielder for Stade Rennais in Ligue 1, after winning the 2022 Coupe de France with Nantes.
Ludovic Fabregas
Ludovic Fabregas, born 1996 in Perpignan, French handball pivot for FC Barcelona and captain of France; Olympic gold 2020, world champion 2017, European champion 2024, four Champions League titles.
Ludovic Giuly
Ludovic Giuly, born 1976 in Lyon, French right-sided midfielder; Monaco captain of the 2004 Champions League final, Barcelona 2004-07 (2006 Champions League, two La Liga), later Roma, PSG, Monaco, Lorient; 17 France caps.
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando (born 1977) is a French paleogenomicist and CNRS research director who sequenced some of the oldest genomes and resolved where horses and donkeys were domesticated.
Ludovic Vallier
Ludovic Vallier, born 1973, is a French stem cell biologist who models liver disease using human pluripotent stem cells and organoids at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité.
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian Renaissance poet of the Este court at Ferrara, author of the chivalric epic Orlando furioso (1516, expanded 1532, 46 cantos in ottava rima), plus Satires and comedies; his dispute with Tasso and influence on English literature mark him out.
Ludovico Bertonio
Ludovico Bertonio, also Juan Ludovico Bertonio, was an Italian Jesuit missionary who wrote the first grammar and dictionary of the Aymara language around 1603 to 1612.
Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Einaudi (born Turin, 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer of minimalist neoclassical piano music; albums include Le Onde, I Giorni, Una Mattina, and The Summer Portraits, with film music in Nomadland and The Father.
Ludovico Sforza
Ludovico Sforza, called il Moro (1452–1508), regent and duke of Milan 1494–1499, patron of Leonardo da Vinci and Bramante, whose invitation of Charles VIII into Italy in 1494 began the Italian Wars and whose duchy fell to Louis XII in 1499.
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
The Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus, or Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, is an ancient Roman marble sarcophagus of about 250–260 CE, carved in deep relief with a battle between Romans and barbarians.
Ludovisi Gaul
The Ludovisi Gaul, or Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, is an ancient Roman marble sculpture in Rome showing a Galatian warrior who has slain his wife and now kills himself.
Ludovisi Throne
The Ludovisi Throne (Trono Ludovisi) is a three-sided marble relief carved around 460 BCE, its central panel read as the birth of Aphrodite, now in Rome's National Roman Museum.
Ľudovít Ódor
Ľudovít Ódor is a Slovak economist and politician of Progressive Slovakia who served as caretaker Prime Minister and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024.
Ľudovít Štúr
Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856) was a Slovak philologist, poet, journalist, and politician who codified standard Slovak in 1846, founded its first political newspaper, and led the Slovak national revival.
Ludowika Jakobsson Eilers
Ludowika Jakobsson Eilers (Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers, 1884-1968), German-born Finnish pairs figure skater; with husband Walter Jakobsson won Olympic gold 1920 (Finland's first), silver 1924, and three world titles (1911, 1914, 1923).
Ludruk
Ludruk is a traditional folk theater from East Java, Indonesia, combining drama, humor, gamelan music, and social critique, performed in Javanese and identified with Surabaya's cultural identity.
Ludu Daw Amar
Ludu Daw Amar (လူထုဒေါ်အမာ, 1915-2008), Burmese journalist and writer, co-founded the Ludu newspaper and press in Mandalay with Ludu U Hla, wrote editorials during his 1953 imprisonment, and authored works on Burmese performing arts and Mandalay culture.
Ludu U Hla
Ludu U Hla (လူထုဦးလှ, 1910–1982) was a Burmese journalist and publisher who founded the Ludu newspaper in Mandalay with his wife, the writer Ludu Daw Amar.
Ludus Latrunculorum
Ludus Latrunculorum, or Latrunculi, the Roman "game of little soldiers", was a two-player capture-and-encirclement board game attested by Varro, Ovid, Martial, and Seneca; no complete ancient rules survive, only reconstructions from texts and excavated grid boards.
Ludus Magnus
Ludus Magnus, the largest gladiatorial training school and barracks of ancient Rome, built by Domitian (81-96 AD) near the Colosseum; elliptical training arena, 3,000-seat cavea, cryptoporticus link, discovered 1937.
Ludvig Åberg
Ludvig Åberg, Swedish PGA Tour golfer born 1999 in Eslov; two Tour wins (2023 RSM Classic, 2025 Genesis Invitational), first PGA TOUR U direct-access graduate, Europe Ryder Cup winner 2023 and 2025, career-high world No. 4.