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Lydia Ko

Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer from Auckland, youngest LPGA Tour winner at 15y4m2d (2012 CPKC Women's Open), three majors, Olympic silver, bronze, and gold, and 2024 LPGA Hall of Fame inductee.

Oct 22, 2026

Lydia Koidula

Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (1843–1886), was an Estonian national poet and dramatist whose patriotic poem "Mu isamaa on minu arm" became an unofficial anthem.

Lydia Lassila (nee Ierodiaconou), born 1982, Australian aerial skier; Olympic gold Vancouver 2010, bronze Sochi 2014, first Australian woman at five Winter Games, 2009 World Cup champion, BodyICE founder.

Lydia Leonard

Lydia Leonard (born 1981, Paris) is a British actress trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Anne Boleyn in the RSC's Wolf Hall (Tony nomination), Gentleman Jack, The Crown, Ten Percent, and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.

Lydia Litvyak

Lydia Litvyak, also known as Lilya Litvyak, was a Soviet fighter pilot of World War II and the first woman to shoot down an enemy aircraft.

Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch, 1959) is an American no wave musician, spoken-word artist, writer, and filmmaker; founder of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, solo debut Queen of Siam, label Widowspeak Productions.

Lydia McLaughlin

Lydia McLaughlin (born 1981) is a reality TV personality and magazine editor, a Real Housewives of Orange County cast member in seasons 8 (2013) and 12 (2017), cofounder of NOBLEMAN Magazine with husband Doug, and author of Beyond Orange County.

Lydia Night

Lydia Night (Lydia Victoria Night), born 2000 in New Orleans, is an American singer-songwriter, former frontwoman of the Regrettes (Feel Your Feelings Fool!, How Do You Love?, Further Joy), and solo pop artist whose 2025 debut album is Parody of Pleasure.

Lydia of Thyatira (Λυδία)

Lydia of Thyatira (Λυδία) is the wealthy seller of purple goods whom Paul baptized with her household at Philippi, the first convert named in Acts in Europe.

Lydia Peckham

Lydia Peckham (born 1996) is a New Zealand actress known for Soona in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) and Priscilla of Nottingham in the MGM+ series Robin Hood (2025).

Lydia Pinkham

Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819–1883) was an American patent-medicine entrepreneur of Lynn, Massachusetts, whose herbal Vegetable Compound became one of the most heavily advertised medicines of nineteenth-century America.

Oct 20, 2026

Lydia Valentin

Lydia Valentín (full name Lydia Valentín Pérez, born 1985 in Ponferrada, Spain) is a Spanish weightlifter who won Olympic medals at three consecutive Games, gold at London 2012.

Lydia Wideman

Lydia Wideman (Wideman-Lehtonen), Finnish cross-country skier, 1920-2019; won the first women's Olympic cross-country gold, the 10 km at Oslo 1952 in 41:40, leading a Finnish podium sweep.

Lydian coinage

Lydian coinage is the earliest known stamped coinage in the world, struck in electrum at Sardis, capital of Lydia, from roughly the mid-seventh century BC under the Mermnad dynasty.

Lydian inscriptions

The Lydian inscriptions are about 100 surviving texts in the Lydian language and alphabet, mostly from Sardis, dating from the eighth to the third century BC.

Lydian language

Lydian is an extinct Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested in about a hundred inscriptions from Sardis and western Asia Minor, mostly from the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Lydian mode

Lydian mode: the fourth mode of the major scale, a major scale with a raised fourth degree (F Lydian: F G A B C D E F). Brightest diatonic mode; used in Beethoven's Op. 132, George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept, modal jazz, and film music.

Lydian Nadhaswaram

Lydian Nadhaswaram, Chennai-born pianist, drummer, and composer who won CBS's The World's Best in 2019 with a $1 million prize, later created Chromatic Grammatic, The Thirukkural 1330, and Symphony No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Lydian–Milesian War

The Lydian–Milesian War was an eleven-year conflict between Lydia and Miletus in the late 7th century BC, begun by King Sadyattes and continued by his son Alyattes.

Lydians

The Lydians were an Iron Age people of western Anatolia, centered on their capital Sardis, who spoke the Lydian language and ruled a kingdom famed for early coinage.

Lydney

Lydney, Gloucestershire town on the Severn; Camp Hill promontory fort with Roman iron mines and the temple complex of Nodens, excavated by Bathurst (1805), the Wheelers (1928-29), and Casey and Hoffmann (1980-81).

Lydney Roman temple

The Lydney Roman temple is a Romano-Celtic temple dedicated to the god Nodens at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, one of the last major pagan buildings in Roman Britain.

Lydus

Lydus (Λυδός, Lydós) is the legendary eponymous king of Lydia in Herodotus' genealogy, son of Atys and brother of Tyrrhenus, known only from Greek literary tradition.

Lye

Lye, also known as alkaline liquor, is the common name for strongly alkaline hydroxide compounds, chiefly sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide, both corrosive white solids best known for making soap.

Lyell (Martian crater)

Lyell (Mars crater, Gazetteer feature 3533): 131 km impact crater at 69.88°S, 344.40°E in the southern highlands, named for Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell, distinct from the 31 km lunar crater of the same name.

Lyell Icefield

Lyell Icefield, Canadian Rockies icefield on the Continental Divide straddling Alberta and British Columbia; feeds the Southeast Lyell and Southwest Lyell glaciers; first described 1858 by Hector of the Palliser expedition.

Lyeninski Rayon

Lyeninski Rayon (Ленінскі раён, Leninsky District) is one of nine city districts of Minsk, Belarus, formed in 1951 and named after Lenin. It covers 26 km² on both banks of the Svislach, had 211,545 residents in 2026, and hosts national government buildings, the Kupala Theatre, and the Serebryanka and Loshitsa microdistricts.

Lyfe Jennings

Lyfe Jennings (Chester Jermaine Jennings), Toledo, Ohio-born R&B and soul singer-songwriter and producer; served about ten years for arson, won Amateur Night at the Apollo five times, and released Lyfe 268-192 (2004), the gold-certified The Phoenix (2006), and 777 (2019).