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Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante (born 1943, Liverpool), British crime novelist, screenwriter, and former RADA actress; creator of Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren and of Widows; CBE, Edgar winner, 2024 CWA Diamond Dagger.
Lynda Lopez
Lynda Lopez (born 1971, the Bronx) is an Emmy-winning American journalist, author of AOC, and midday anchor on 1010 WINS New York; younger sister of Jennifer Lopez, formerly of WCBS-TV, Fox 5, My9, ABC News, and WCBS 880.
Lynda Lyon Block
Lynda Lyon Block (1948–2002), also known as Lynda Lyon, was an American anti-government activist executed in Alabama's electric chair on May 10, 2002 for the 1993 murder of Opelika police sergeant Roger Lamar Motley, the first woman executed in Alabama since 1957.
Lynda Zamora Wilson
Lynda Zamora Wilson is an American politician and Republican member of the Colorado Senate representing the 9th district, after 25 years in the United States Air Force.
Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper is an Australian historian of early modern Germany who held Oxford's Regius Chair in History from 2011, the first woman and first Australian to do so.
Lynden Archer
Lynden A. Archer is an American chemical engineer at Cornell University, where he is dean of engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for battery research.
Lynden Gooch
Lynden Jack Gooch (born 1995, Santa Cruz, California) is an American right-back and former winger at Huddersfield Town, formerly Sunderland (246 games) and Stoke City, with 4 US men's national team caps.
Lynden Pindling International Airport
Lynden Pindling International Airport, formerly Nassau International Airport, is the main gateway to The Bahamas in Nassau, handling a record 4.06 million passengers in 2024.
Lyndhurst (mansion)
Lyndhurst is a Gothic Revival mansion overlooking the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis and now a museum.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), 36th US president (1963-1969), Texas Democrat, Senate majority leader, Kennedy's vice president. Signed Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965, Great Society; escalated Vietnam War, declined 1968 re-election.
Lyndon Dykes
Lyndon John Dykes (born 1995, Queensland, Australia) is a Scottish striker for Millwall and Scotland; 53 caps, 10 goals, formerly QPR, Birmingham, Charlton; 2026 World Cup squad member.
Lyndon Emsley
Lyndon Emsley is a solid-state NMR spectroscopist and professor of physical chemistry at EPFL, where he has led the Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance since 2014, developing NMR crystallography methods.
Lyndon Ferns
Lyndon Ferns, born 1983 in Polokwane, South Africa, is a retired swimmer, 2004 Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder in the 4x100 m freestyle relay (3:13.17), and 2006 NCAA 100 butterfly champion for Arizona.
Lyndon Frederick Small
Lyndon Frederick Small (1897–1957) was an American chemist who led drug addiction research at the University of Virginia and NIH, developing the painkiller metopon, a morphine derivative about three times as potent as morphine.
Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019), American political activist and conspiracy theorist, founded the National Caucus of Labor Committees and the LaRouche movement, ran for US president in every election 1976-2004, and served five years in prison for mail fraud after his 1988 conviction.
Lyndon word
A Lyndon word is a finite word over an ordered alphabet that is lexicographically smaller than all of its nontrivial rotations, introduced by Roger Lyndon in 1954.
Lyndsey Marshal
Lyndsey Marshal (born 1978, Manchester) is an English actress trained at RWCMD, known for Cleopatra in HBO's Rome, Lady Sarah Hill in Garrow's Law, The Hours, Hereafter, and the Donmar Warehouse's Mass (2026).
Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown is a research electrical engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who leads development of perovskite solar cells made in space and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca, American actress born 1987 in Oakland, California; played Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless, Ted's daughter on How I Met Your Mother, and Alex on Nikita, with film roles in Kick-Ass, Hot Tub Time Machine, and The Ward.
Lyne
Lyne, a parish in Peeblesshire, Scottish Borders, west of Peebles, holds an Antonine Roman auxiliary fort (Carbantoritum?), a Hallyne fortlet, large marching camps, an Iron Age hillfort, and Abbey Knowe cist cemetery.
Lynestrenol
Lynestrenol, also spelled lynoestrenol, is a synthetic steroidal progestogen developed by Organon that acts as a prodrug of norethisterone and is used in contraceptives and gynecology.
Lynette Scavo
Lynette Scavo is the fictional Desperate Housewives character played by Felicity Huffman on ABC from 2004 to 2012: a former advertising executive married to Tom Scavo, mother of six, Emmy-winning role.
Lynette Woodard
Lynette Woodard is an American basketball player who scored a record 3,649 points at the University of Kansas, captained the 1984 Olympic gold-medal team, and was the first female Harlem Globetrotter.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian descent known for oil paintings of invented Black figures who exist outside any specific time or place.
Lynford L. Goddard
Lynford L. Goddard is an American electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and sensors, and a 2008 PECASE recipient.
Lyngbya
Lyngbya is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriales, Microcoleaceae), historically polyphyletic and now partly split into Moorea and Okeania; a leading source of bioactive metabolites including lyngbyatoxin, and the cause of increasing benthic blooms.
Lynja
Lynja, aka Cooking With Lynja, was the online persona of Lynn Yamada Davis (1956–2024), a Japanese-American MIT-trained engineer who became a TikTok and YouTube cooking star with her son Tim, reaching about 30 million followers and winning 2022 Streamy Awards.
Lynk & Co
Lynk & Co is a Chinese-Swedish automobile brand launched by Geely in Berlin in 2016, selling fixed-price cars developed with Volvo and headquartered in Gothenburg.
Lynk & Co 07 (领克07)
The Lynk & Co 07 (领克07), sold in China as the 07 EM-P, is a mid-size plug-in hybrid sedan unveiled at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show with over 10,000 orders.
Lynk & Co 10 (领克10)
The Lynk & Co 10 (领克10) is a mid-to-large battery electric sedan from Geely's premium Lynk & Co brand, launched in China in May 2026 as successor to the Z10.