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Lytton Report

The Lytton Report (リットン報告書) was the 1932 League of Nations commission report, chaired by Lord Lytton, that found Manchukuo was a Japanese creation; Japan then left the League.

Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey, 1880-1932), English biographer, critic, and founding Bloomsbury Group member; author of Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), pioneer of ironic modern biography.

Lytton, British Columbia

Lytton (Tl'ḵémtsin, Camchin), British Columbia: a village at the Fraser-Thompson confluence in Nlaka'pamux Territory, incorporated 1945, population 210, holder of Canada's 49.6 °C heat record, mostly destroyed by the 2021 Lytton Creek wildfire.

Lyu Liang

Lyu Liang (吕良, born 1978) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Changsha-based tea brand 茶颜悦色 (Cha Yan Yue Se) with his wife Sun Cuiying in 2013.

Lyu Xuewen

Lyu Xuewen (吕学文, born 1977) is a Chinese entrepreneur who chairs Xiamen Happy Sweet Potato, the NEEQ-listed operator of the Happy Sweet Potato tea-drink chain.

Lyuben Karavelov

Lyuben Karavelov (Любен Каравелов, 1834–1879) was a Bulgarian writer, publicist, and revolutionary, born in Koprivshtitsa, who chaired the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee preparing liberation from Ottoman rule.

Lyubertsy

Lyubertsy (Люберцы), a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, about 19 km southeast of Moscow; first mentioned 1623 as Liberitsy, town since 1925, industrial center with railway plant, helicopter design bureau, and about 236,000 residents in 2026.

Lyubomir Geraskov

Lyubomir Geraskov (Любомир Стилянов Герасков), Bulgarian gymnast born 1968 in Sofia, won 1988 Seoul Olympic pommel horse gold at 19.950 in a three-way tie with Borkai and Bilozerchev; one of only two Bulgarian gymnastics golds.

Lyubomir Lyubenov

Lyubomir Lyubenov (Любомир Любенов, born 1957, Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian sprint canoeist, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist in C-1 1000 m and silver medalist in C-1 500 m; distinct from the 1980-born footballer of the same name.

Lyubomir Miletich

Lyubomir Miletich (Любомир Милетич, 1863–1937) was a Bulgarian philologist, dialectologist, and historian who held the Slavic philology chair at Sofia University and served as president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Lyuboml’s’kyy Rayon

Lyuboml’s’kyy Rayon (Любомльський район, Liuboml Raion) was a district in northwestern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, bordering Poland along the Western Bug; created 1940, area 1,488 km², center Liuboml, abolished 2020 into Kovel Raion.

Lyubov Berezhnaya Odinokova

Lyubov Berezhnaya-Odinokova (Любовь Ивановна Бережная-Одинокова), born 1955, Soviet handball player who won Olympic gold in women's handball at both Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980, plus 1982 world gold.

Lyubov Burda

Lyubov Burda (Любовь Викторовна Бурда, born 1953, Voronezh), Soviet artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic team gold medalist (1968, 1972), 1970 world team champion, eponym of the Burda Twirl on uneven bars, later FIG judge and Hall of Fame inductee.

Lyubov Galkina

Lyubov Galkina (Любовь Галкина), Russian rifle shooter born 1973 in Alapayevsk; 2004 Olympic champion in 50 m rifle three positions, silver in air rifle 2004 and 2008, 2006 world champion, four Olympians 2000–2012.

Lyubov Kozyreva (olympedia 53130)

Lyubov Kozyreva-Baranova (Любовь Козырева-Баранова, née Vatina, 1929–2015), Soviet cross-country skier; first Soviet Winter Olympic champion (1956 10 km) and first Soviet world champion skier (1954), with 1 gold and 3 silver Olympic medals.

Lyubov Mukhachova

Lyubov Mukhachova (Любовь Мухачёва, born 1947, Staraya Russa), Soviet cross-country skier, 1972 Sapporo Olympic gold medalist in the 3x5 km relay with Olyunina and Kulakova; also three-time 1972 Universiade champion.

Lyubov Popova (Любовь Сергеевна Попова)

Lyubov Popova (Любовь Сергеевна Попова, 1889-1924), Russian avant-garde painter, stage designer, and textile artist; creator of Painterly Architectonics, Meyerhold's constructivist sets, and VKhUTEMAS color professor; distinct from A.S. Popov museum namesakes.

Lyubov Sadchikova

Lyubov Ivanovna Sadchikova (Любовь Ивановна Садчикова), Soviet sprint speed skater (1951–2012); 1978 World Sprint champion in Lake Placid, 500 m world record holder 41.69 (1975, Medeo), 1976 Olympian.

Lyubov Sharmay

Lyubov Georgyevna Sharmay (Шармай Любовь Георгиевна, later Goncharova), born 1956 in Moscow, Soviet basketball forward for CSKA; Olympic gold 1980, two-time European champion, Honoured Master of Sport USSR.

Lyubov Tyurina

Lyubov Tyurina (Любовь Николаевна Тюрина, 1943–2015), Soviet volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist at Munich 1972, world champion 1970, European champion 1967; played for Dynamo Moscow and Trudovyye Rezervy.

Lyubov Yanvareva

Lyubov Yanvareva (Любов Январева, born 8 October 1935, Kiev) is a Soviet middle-distance runner who set the 3 x 800 m relay world record of 6:27.4 in Kiev in 1958 with Kozlova and Lysenko.

Lyubov Yegorova

Lyubov Yegorova (Любовь Ивановна Егорова), born 1966, Russian cross-country skier; six Olympic golds and nine medals at Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994; 1997 bromantan disqualification; later Saint Petersburg politician.

Lyudmila Andonova

Lyudmila Andonova (Людмила Андонова), born 1960 in Novocherkassk, is a retired Bulgarian high jumper who set a 2.07 m world record in East Berlin in 1984 and competed at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics.

Lyudmila Belousova

Lyudmila Belousova (Людмила Белоусова), Soviet pair skater with husband Oleg Protopopov; two Olympic golds (1964, 1968), four World and European titles (1965-68), defected to Switzerland 1979, died 2017.

Lyudmila Bobrus Poradnik

Lyudmila Bobrus Poradnik (Людмила Константиновна Бобрусь-Порадник), born 1946 in Kyiv, Ukrainian handball player; two Olympic golds with the Soviet Union at Montreal 1976 (as Bobrus) and Moscow 1980 (as Poradnik), Spartak Kyiv, world silver 1975 and 1978.

Lyudmila Borozna

Lyudmila Borozna (Людмила Борозна, later Zhigily), Soviet volleyball attacker born 1954 in Leningrad; Olympic champion 1972 in Munich, 1973 World Cup winner, 1974/1978 world medalist, 1977 European champion.

Lyudmila Bragina

Lyudmila Bragina (Людмила Ивановна Брагина), Soviet middle-distance runner born 1943, won the first Olympic women's 1500 m title in 1972 with world records in every round, and set seven world records at 1500 m and 3000 m.

Lyudmila Buldakova

Lyudmila Buldakova (Людмила Степановна Булдакова), Soviet volleyball setter and captain, born 1938 Leningrad, died 2006 Moscow; two Olympic golds (1968, 1972), three world titles, Hall of Fame 2012.

Lyudmila Dzhigalova

Lyudmila Dzhigalova (Людмила Джигалова), born 1962, Ukrainian sprinter; two-time Olympic 4x400 m relay champion (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992) and 1991 world champion; career ended by a 1993 IAAF doping ban.

Lyudmila Gromova

Lyudmila Pavlovna Gromova (Людмила Павловна Громова), born 1942 in Miass, Soviet artistic gymnast; 1964 Tokyo Olympic team gold with the USSR (380.890), 30th in the all-around, later a coach-teacher.