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Lyford Cay
Lyford Cay is a private, gated residential community of about 1,100 acres on western New Providence, Bahamas, developed by E.P. Taylor from the 1950s around the invitation-only Lyford Cay Club, with Lyford Cay International School inside its gates.
Lyft
Lyft, Inc. is an American mobility company operating a ridesharing marketplace through a mobile app, founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer as an offshoot of Zimride.
Lyft Level 5 dataset
The Lyft Level 5 dataset is an autonomous driving dataset released by Lyft's Level 5 division, containing over 1,000 hours of perception data collected by 20 self-driving vehicles in Palo Alto, California.
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus, also known as Lygdamis of Halicarnassus, was a Carian ruler of Halicarnassus under Persian overlordship and the father of Artemisia I.
Lygend Resources & Technology
Lygend Resources & Technology is a Chinese nickel company headquartered in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and China's largest nickel ore trader, listed in Hong Kong since 2022.
Lygia Bojunga
Lygia Bojunga, born in 1932, is a Brazilian children's author known for A Bolsa Amarela and the first Brazilian to win both the Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren awards.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark (1920–1988) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor of the Neo-Concrete movement in Rio de Janeiro, best known for Bichos, hinged aluminum sculptures spectators manipulate.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 to 2022) was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer who won the 2005 Prêmio Camões and wrote the dictatorship-era novel As Meninas.
Lygodactylus
Lygodactylus (dwarf geckos), Gray 1864: small diurnal geckos of Africa, Madagascar, and South America; 82 species, four major clades, Malagasy origin, cryptic diversity, CITES-listed L. williamsi.
Lygodium
Lygodium, climbing ferns, genus of twining ferns in Schizaeaceae/Lygodiaceae with about 29-40 pantropical species; indeterminate rachises reach 30 m; L. japonicum and L. microphyllum are major Florida invaders.
Lygosoma
Lygosoma (Hardwicke & Gray, 1827) is a genus of Southeast Asian supple and writhing skinks in Scincidae. Once a catch-all holding 43% of skink species, it was redefined in 2019 to a slender-bodied clade.
Lying in state
Lying in state is the public display of a coffin in a government building before a funeral, an honor given to monarchs, prime ministers, and others.
Lykke Li
Lykke Li (Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, born 1986, Ystad, Sweden) is a Swedish singer-songwriter of melancholic indie and electro-pop. Albums: Youth Novels (2008) through The Afterparty (2026); known for I Follow Rivers and open-wound songwriting.
LYKN
LYKN (ไลแคน, "lycan") is a five-member Thai T-pop boy group under GMMTV's RISER MUSIC label, formed via the survival show Project Alpha; members William, Lego, Tui, Hong, and Nut debuted May 5, 2023 with "May I?" and released the album DUSK & DAWN.
Lykoi
Lykoi (werewolf cat), a cat breed from a natural HR-gene coat mutation giving partial hairlessness and black roan coloring; founded 2011 by the Gobbles and Patti Thomas, recognized by TICA (2017) and CFA (2023).
Lykosoura
Lykosoura (Λυκόσουρα, Lycosoura), ancient Arcadian city 7 km from Megalopolis near Mount Lykaion, famed for its sanctuary of Despoina with a colossal cult group by Damophon of Messene; excavated from 1889.
Lykov family
Lykov family: Russian Old Believers who fled Soviet persecution in 1936 and lived over 40 years in total isolation in the Siberian taiga until geologists found them in 1978; Agafia Lykova survives.
Lyktos
Lyktos (Λύκτος, later Lyttos), ancient Cretan polis near Kastelli Pediadas on a 620 m hill; Homer's Lyktos, Spartan colony per Polybius, sacked by Knossos 220 BC, Roman wine exporter, abandoned in the Medieval period.
Lyla in the Loop
Lyla in the Loop (PBS KIDS animated series, premiered February 5, 2024) follows 7-year-old Jamaican American girl Lyla Loops and sidekick Stu, teaching computational thinking to children ages 4–8.
Lyle Alzado
Lyle Alzado (1949-1992), NFL defensive lineman for the Broncos, Browns, and Raiders; 1977 AFC Defensive Player of the Year, two-time All-Pro, Super Bowl XVIII winner who blamed steroids for his fatal brain lymphoma.
Lyle and Erik Menendez
Lyle and Erik Menendez, American brothers convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in Beverly Hills; hung 1993 juries, 1996 life-without-parole convictions, 2025 resentencing to 50 years to life, and denied parole.
Lyle Hemphill
Lyle Hemphill (born 1980) is an American college football coach, Texas A&M Aggies defensive coordinator since December 2025; former DC at James Madison, Duke, Wake Forest, and Stony Brook; longtime Mike Elko assistant.
Lyle Isaacs
Lyle Isaacs, born 1969 in New York City, is an American supramolecular chemist and professor at the University of Maryland known for cucurbit[n]uril molecular containers.
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett (Lyle Pearce Lovett), American singer-songwriter from Klein, Texas, blending country, Western swing, jazz, and folk; four Grammy wins from 18 nominations, leader of the Large Band, actor in Altman films, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
Lyle R. Petersen
Lyle R. Petersen is an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist who directs the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases and led its 2016 Zika response.
Lyle Stevik
Lyle Stevik is the alias of a man found at Lake Quinault Inn, Amanda Park, Washington, in 2001. He was identified by genetic genealogy in 2018.
Lyle Taylor
Lyle Taylor (Lyle James Alfred Taylor, born 1990) is a Montserrat international striker at Chelmsford City, formerly prolific at AFC Wimbledon and Charlton, later Nottingham Forest, with over 150 career goals.
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Wesley Waggoner (1935–2020), American actor and entrepreneur; announcer and sketch performer on The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1974), Major Steve Trevor on Wonder Woman (1975–1979), and founder of Star Waggons.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (film)
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a 2022 Sony live-action/CGI musical comedy directed by Speck and Gordon, based on Bernard Waber's books, starring Javier Bardem and Constance Wu with Shawn Mendes as the singing crocodile's voice.
LYMA
LYMA is a London-based wellness technology company founded by Lucy Goff in 2018, selling a premium daily supplement, an FDA-cleared at-home cold laser, and a skincare line.