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Luisa Neubauer
Luisa Neubauer (Luisa-Marie Neubauer), born 1996 in Hamburg, is a German climate activist co-organizing Fridays for Future Germany and lead plaintiff in Neubauer vs. Germany.
Luisa Torsi
Luisa Torsi is an Italian chemist, full professor of Chemistry at the University of Bari Aldo Moro since 2005, known for organic transistor biosensors and single-molecule detection.
Luisa Wilson
Luisa Wilson (born 2005, Celaya, Guanajuato) is a Mexican ice hockey forward, first Mexico-born athlete to win a Winter Olympics medal: gold in women's 3-on-3 at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics, plus 2020 IIHF U18 bronze.
Luisa Zissman
Luisa Zissman (Louisa Christina Kalozois, born 1987, Milton Keynes) is a British retail entrepreneur, Apprentice series 9 runner-up (2013), Celebrity Big Brother 13 fourth-place finisher, and co-host with Anna Williamson of LuAnna: The Podcast.
Luisana Lopilato
Luisana Loreley Lopilato (born 1987, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, model, and producer known for Mía Colucci in Rebelde Way, the band Erreway, Casados con hijos, the Netflix films Perdida, La corazonada, and Pipa, and producing and starring in Pepita, la pistolera (2026); married to Michael Bublé since 2011.
Luisangel Acuña
Luisangel Acuña, Venezuelan MLB infielder/outfielder (White Sox, formerly Mets and Rangers), brother of NL MVP Ronald Acuña Jr.; acquired in the 2023 Max Scherzer trade, traded for Luis Robert Jr. in 2026.
Luise Rainer
Luise Rainer (1910-2014), German-born MGM actress, first performer to win back-to-back Best Actress Oscars, for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); quit Hollywood in 1938.
Luise Rinser
Luise Rinser (1911–2002) was a German writer of novels, stories, essays, and diaries, one of the most widely read postwar German authors; her breakthrough novel was Mitte des Lebens (1950).
Luitpold Coast
Luitpold Coast, also Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land, is the northwest coast of Coats Land, Antarctica, fringed by the Filchner Ice Front between about 76°40'S and 78°00'S. Discovered by Wilhelm Filchner's German expedition in January 1912 and named for Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria.
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1966) was a Dutch mathematician and logician who founded modern topology, proving the fixed-point theorem, and founded intuitionism, which rejects the law of excluded middle.
Luiz Adriano
Luiz Adriano (Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva, born 1987) is a Brazilian striker, ex-Shakhtar Donetsk record scorer (128 goals) who scored five in one 2014/15 Champions League game at BATE, later AC Milan and Spartak Moscow.
Luiz Altamir Melo
Luiz Altamir Melo (Luiz Altamir Lopes Melo), Brazilian swimmer born 1996 in Boa Vista, Roraima; Flamengo athlete, 2018 short-course world champion and 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder (6:46.81), Youth Olympic and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist.
Luiz Augusto Milano
Luiz Augusto Milano is a Brazilian engineer who founded the São Paulo construction company Matec in 1990 and is known as an early adopter of BIM.
Luiz Cezar Fernandes
Luiz Cezar Fernandes is a Brazilian investment banker who co-founded Banco Pactual in 1983 and helped design the Selic settlement system, Cetip, and the CDI interbank rate.
Luiz Costa Lima
Luiz Costa Lima is a Brazilian literary critic and theorist, born in 1937, known for his theory of the "control of the imaginary" and for over twenty books.
Luiz Davidovich
Luiz Davidovich is a Brazilian physicist at UFRJ working in quantum optics and quantum information, and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2022.
Luiz Felipe
Luiz Felipe, chiefly the Brazilian-Italian central defender born 1997 (Ituano, Lazio, Betis, Al-Ittihad, Marseille, Rayo Vallecano), also names an Olympic volleyball champion, a basketball scoring record holder, and other Brazilian athletes.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
Luiz Felipe Scolari (Felipão, Big Phil), born 1948, Brazilian football manager; won the 2002 World Cup with Brazil and 2013 Confederations Cup, led Portugal 2003–08, and coached Grêmio, Palmeiras, Chelsea and Guangzhou Evergrande.
Luiz Gonzaga
Luiz Gonzaga, full name Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (1912–1989), was a Brazilian singer and accordion player, the "Rei do Baião", who popularized the baião nationwide.
Luiz Gonzaga hydroelectric plant
The Luiz Gonzaga hydroelectric plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Luiz Gonzaga), long known as Itaparica, is a 1,479.6 MW dam on the São Francisco River between Bahia and Pernambuco.
Luiz Gustavo
Luiz Gustavo (Luiz Gustavo Dias, born 1987, Pindamonhangaba) is a Brazilian defensive midfielder and Athletico Paranaense captain; ex-Hoffenheim, Bayern (2013 treble), Wolfsburg, Marseille, Fenerbahçe; 46 Brazil caps, 2014 World Cup squad.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula), Brazilian Workers' Party politician, president 2003–2010 and again from 2023; former São Paulo steelworkers' union leader; known for Bolsa Família, orthodox-plus-growth economics, annulled Lava Jato convictions, and the narrowest 2022 election win.
Luiz Marcelo Calicchio
Luiz Marcelo Calicchio, known in the Brazilian financial market as Teco, is a banking executive and founding partner of C6 Bank, the digital bank launched in São Paulo in 2019.
Luiz Ruffato
Luiz Ruffato (born 1961) is a Brazilian writer known for the novel Eles eram muitos cavalos and the five-volume Inferno provisório about the working class.
Luiza e Maurílio
Luiza e Maurílio was a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2016 in Imperatriz, Maranhão, best known for the 2019 hit 'S de Saudade'; it ended when Maurílio died in 2021.
Luiza Noskova
Luiza Noskova (Луиза Николаевна Носкова, née Cherepanova), Russian biathlete born 1968 in Labytnangi; 1994 Lillehammer Olympic relay gold and 1989 World team champion; later Tyumen lecturer and sports official.
Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral
Luís A. Nunes Amaral is a complex-systems and network scientist at Northwestern University, known for the 2005 Nature paper "Functional cartography of complex metabolic networks."
Luı́s de Lecea
Luis de Lecea is a Spanish-trained neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry at Stanford, known for discovering the hypocretins in 1998 and optogenetic control of awakening in 2007.
Lujan-Fryns syndrome
Lujan-Fryns syndrome (Lujan syndrome, X-linked intellectual disability with marfanoid habitus, OMIM 309520): rare X-linked recessive MED12-related disorder in males with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability, marfanoid tall stature, distinct facial dysmorphism, hypernasal speech, and psychiatric problems.
Lujiazui (陆家嘴)
Lujiazui (陆家嘴) is Shanghai's financial district in Pudong, opposite the Bund, built since 1990 as China's only state-level finance and trade zone and the core of the Shanghai International Financial Center.