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Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Arizona known for the cognitive map theory of the hippocampus and multiple trace theory of memory.
Lynn P. Carmichael
Lynn P. Carmichael (1929–2009) was an American family physician at the University of Miami who built the first family medicine residency program in the United States.
Lynn Painter
Lynn Painter, American romance author of Better Than the Movies and Mr. Wrong Number, a #1 New York Times bestselling writer of YA and adult rom-coms based in Omaha, Nebraska, whose BookTok-driven sales led to Netflix and Sony film adaptations.
Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave (1943–2010), English-born actress of the Redgrave family, Oscar-nominated for Georgy Girl and Gods and Monsters, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee who won none, OBE 2001.
Lynn S. Beedle
Lynn S. Beedle (1917–2003) was an American structural engineer at Lehigh University whose plastic-design research reshaped steel building practice and who founded the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton (1965-2020) was an American writer-director and Seattle mumblecore figure behind Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, and Sword of Trust, plus TV work including Little Fires Everywhere; she won Sundance's Special Jury Prize and the John Cassavetes Award.
Lynn Swann
Lynn Curtis Swann (born 1952, Alcoa, Tennessee) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver (2001) for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1974–82; four Super Bowl titles, Super Bowl X MVP, later USC athletic director.
Lynn Sykes
Lynn R. Sykes, born 1937, is an American seismologist and National Academy of Sciences member at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for confirming plate tectonics and nuclear test ban verification.
Lynn Thorndike
Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965) was an American historian at Columbia University, a founder of the history of science as an academic field in the United States.
Lynn Toler
Lynn Candace Toler (born 1959, Columbus, Ohio) is an American lawyer, former Cleveland Heights Municipal Court judge, and TV personality, presiding judge of Divorce Court 2006–2020 and host of Marriage Boot Camp and Commit or Quit.
Lynn Vidali
Lynn Vidali (Lynn Marie Vidali Gautschi), American swimmer born 1952 in San Francisco; two Olympic individual medley medals (silver 400 IM 1968, bronze 200 IM 1972) and 1966 world record in the 200 m IM.
Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield (born 1953, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American actress and producer, Emmy winner for The Josephine Baker Story (1991), known for Lady Mae Greenleaf on Greenleaf, seven NAACP Image Awards, and films including Eve's Bayou.
Lynn Williams
Lynn Williams refers to two Olympic medalists: Canadian runner Lynn Kanuka-Williams (born 1960), 1984 Olympic 3000m bronze, and American soccer forward Lynn Biyendolo (born 1993), NWSL all-time scoring leader, Tokyo 2020 bronze and Paris 2024 gold.
Lynn-Holly Johnson
Lynn-Holly Johnson (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actress and former figure skater, star of Ice Castles, The Watcher in the Woods, and Bond girl Bibi Dahl in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn, Massachusetts: North Shore city north of Boston, incorporated 1850, once the nation's shoe center, later a GE industrial city; 2020 population 101,253, home to the 2,200-acre Lynn Woods municipal forest.
Lynna Irby
Lynna Irby-Jackson (born 1998), American 400 m sprinter from Indianapolis; 2018 NCAA 400 m champion in 49.80, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold (women's 4x400 m relay) and bronze (mixed relay), and 2025 World Championships mixed relay gold.
Lynna M. Hereford
Lynna M. Hereford was an American molecular biologist who worked on budding yeast RNAs and histone genes, publishing her principal papers at Brandeis University between 1977 and 1987.
Lynndie England
Lynndie England (born 1982), US Army Reserve private of the 372nd MP Company, became the face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos in 2004; convicted by court-martial in September 2005 and sentenced to three years.
Lynne Cheney
Lynne Cheney, American author and scholar, chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities 1986-1993, wrote its humanities reports, led the attack on the National History Standards, and later wrote children's American history books as an AEI senior fellow and wife of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, known professionally as Lynne E. Maquat, is an American RNA biologist at the University of Rochester who discovered nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, which destroys faulty messenger RNAs.
Lynne Frederick
Lynne Maria Frederick (1954-1994), English film actress of No Blade of Grass, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Prisoner of Zenda; fourth wife of Peter Sellers, heir to his estate, died at 39 in Los Angeles.
Lynne Jewell
Lynne Jewell (Lynne M. Jewell Shore), born 1959 in Burbank, California, is an American sailor who won the first Olympic women's 470 gold at Seoul 1988 with Allison Jolly, after a 1980 Triple Crown season.
Lynne Marie Stewart
Lynne Marie Stewart (1946–2025), American actress; Miss Yvonne on Pee-wee's Playhouse and Bonnie Kelly, Charlie's mom, on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; died of cancer in Los Angeles.
Lynne Mofenson
Lynne Mofenson is an American pediatric infectious disease physician who led key NIH trials on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, then joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation after retiring in 2014.
Lynne Moody
Lynne Moody, American actress from Detroit known for Irene Harvey in Roots (1977, 1979), Tracy Curtis Taylor in That's My Mama, and Patricia Williams in Knots Landing; reunited in 2021 with daughter Lisa Wright after 50 years.
Lynne Perrie
Lynne Perrie (Jean Dudley, 1931–2006), Yorkshire actor and singer, played Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street for 23 years and Billy Casper's mother in Ken Loach's film Kes.
Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay, Scottish film director from Glasgow, made Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here, and Die My Love; Cannes prize-winning auteur of fragmented, image-led psychological dramas.
Lynne Regan
Lynne Regan is a biochemist and protein designer who leads the Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, after a Yale career from 1990 to 2018.
Lynne Spears
Lynne Irene Spears (née Bridges), American teacher, day care operator, and author born 1955 in Mississippi; mother of Britney, Jamie Lynn, and Bryan Spears; coauthor of Heart to Heart and A Mother's Gift and author of the 2008 memoir Through the Storm.
Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen (1948–2003), American stage, film, and TV actress born in Joliet, Illinois; Tony winner for An American Daughter, the Chief on PBS's Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Ella Mae Farmer on The District, and voice of Luna in Bear in the Big Blue House.