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Lymphovenous anastomosis
Lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA, lymphovenous bypass, LVB) is a supermicrosurgical operation connecting lymphatic vessels to small veins to drain lymph around blockages, treating early-stage lymphedema and, done immediately at lymph node dissection, preventing secondary lymphedema.
Lyn
Lyn (린, born Lee Se-jin in 1981) is a South Korean ballad and soundtrack singer nicknamed the "OST queen", known for "My Destiny" from My Love from the Star (2013).
Lyn Alden
Lyn Alden is an American investment strategist and author who founded the research firm Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016 and wrote the 2023 book Broken Money.
Lyn Evans
Lyn Evans, full name Lyndon Rees Evans, is a Welsh accelerator physicist born in 1945 who designed and led the 14-year construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Lyn Finelli
Lyn Finelli is an American CDC epidemiologist who co-authored New England Journal of Medicine studies of 2009 H1N1 influenza and childhood pneumonia, and led FluSurv-NET surveillance.
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024) was an American poet and a founding figure of Language poetry, the experimental movement that emerged in the 1970s; her best-known work is the autobiography My Life.
Lyn M. Duncan
Lyn M. Duncan is an American dermatopathologist who joined Massachusetts General Hospital in 1991, helped discover the melanoma biomarker Melastatin, and directed Harvard's dermatopathology training program.
Lyn May
Lyn May (Liliana Mendiola Mayanes) is a Mexican vedette, exotic dancer, and actress from Acapulco, star of 1970s ficheras cinema, debuting in Tívoli (1974); known as "la diosa del amor"; disfigured by a cooking-oil injection; still performing.
Lyn Tillett
Lyn Tillett (Lynette Marie Tillett, later Jacenko), born 1953, Australian track and field athlete; 1972 Munich Olympian in long jump, pentathlon, and 4x100 m relay; 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games relay bronze.
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins
Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (Lyndsey Adams Hawkins, born 1989), American vert skateboarder from Encinitas, California; multi-time X Games women's vert gold medalist (2004, 2007, 2009), first woman to land a McTwist, married to Travis Pastrana; distinct from the Mindless Self Indulgence bassist Lyn-Z.
Lynchburg Hornets
Lynchburg Hornets: athletics teams of the University of Lynchburg (formerly Lynchburg College), NCAA Division III, ODAC. National titles in 2014 women's soccer and 2023 baseball; Hornet Red and gray colors; no "Lady Hornets" nickname.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
Lynchburg, Tennessee: seat of Moore County and consolidated city-county government, home of the Jack Daniel Distillery (est. 1866), the nation's oldest registered distillery, in a dry county with over 250,000 annual distillery visitors.
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia: independent city on the James River, also called the Hill City, founded 1757 by John Lynch's ferry, chartered 1786, tobacco and railroad hub, home of five colleges, population about 81,000.
Lynching
Lynching, extrajudicial mob killing; in the US chiefly racial terror lynching of Black Americans, 1865–1950. EJI documents nearly 6,500 lynchings; federal law came only with the 2022 Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
Lynching in the United States
Lynching in the United States, or racial terror lynching, was mob killing without trial, mainly of Black Americans; EJI documents nearly 6,500 lynchings from 1865 to 1950, mostly in the South, made a federal hate crime by the 2022 Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস)
Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস), Hindu garment worker lynched in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 18 December 2025 over false blasphemy allegations; body hung and burned; no evidence found; 23+ arrests.
Lynching of Italian Americans
Lynching of Italian Americans: extralegal mob killings of Italian and Sicilian immigrants in the United States, 1886-1910, including the March 14, 1891 New Orleans mass lynching of 11 men after the Hennessy murder, which caused a US-Italy diplomatic crisis and spurred antilynching politics.
Lynching of Jesse Washington
The lynching of Jesse Washington, known as the Waco Horror, was the 1916 mob torture and burning of a seventeen-year-old Black farmhand in Waco, Texas.
Lynching of Michael Donald
Lynching of Michael Donald: 1981 Ku Klux Klan killing of 19-year-old Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, recorded as the last documented US lynching; his mother's civil suit bankrupted the United Klans of America.
Lynching of white Americans
Lynching of white Americans refers to mass killings in the US during the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly on the western and midwestern frontiers.
Lynd Ward
Lynd Kendall Ward (1905–1985), American wood engraver and illustrator born in Chicago, created six wordless novels (1929–1937), beginning with Gods' Man, the first American woodcut novel and precursor of the graphic novel.
Lynda Baron
Lynda Baron (Lilian Ridgway, 1939–2022) was an English actress, singer, and dancer, Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours (1976–85) and Auntie Mabel in Come Outside (1993–97), Bafta-nominated for The Road to Coronation Street.
Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham (Meredith Lee Hughes, 1948–2014), Canadian-born British actress best known as the "Oxo mum" in 42 Oxo TV ads (1983–1999); also All Creatures Great and Small, Second Thoughts, Calendar Girls, Loose Women; died of bowel cancer.
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born 1944) is the elder daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, wife of Virginia Governor and Senator Chuck Robb, a McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal editor, and a Reading Is Fundamental literacy advocate.
Lynda Boyd
Lynda Boyd (born 1965, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress, singer, and writer known for Rose Miller on Republic of Doyle, Randy on Tin Star, Lilly on Virgin River, and films like Final Destination 2 and She's the Man.
Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter, American actress and singer (born 1951, Phoenix), Miss World USA 1972, star of the 1975-1979 Wonder Woman TV series; later albums, Emmy-winning specials, Supergirl, Skyrim and Fallout voice roles.
Lynda Chin
Lynda Chin is an American cancer genomic scientist and board-certified dermatologist known for leadership in The Cancer Genome Atlas, melanoma genomics, and founding MD Anderson's Department of Genomic Medicine.
Lynda Culver
Lynda Schlegel Culver is an American Republican politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 27th Senate district since a January 2023 special election, after 12 years in the state House.
Lynda Day George
Lynda Day George (born Lynda Louise Day, 1944, San Marcos, Texas) is an American TV actress, Lisa Casey on Mission: Impossible 1971–1973 (Golden Globe and Emmy nominations), later wife of actor Christopher George, known for Pieces and Day of the Animals.
Lynda Goodfriend
Lynda Goodfriend (born 1953, Miami) is an American actress and acting teacher, best known as Lori Beth, Richie Cunningham's girlfriend and wife, on Happy Days (1977–1984), later Chair of Acting at NYFA Los Angeles.