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Lyudmila Ignatyeva Samotyosova
Lyudmila Ignatyeva-Samotyosova (Людмила Игнатьева-Самотёсова), Soviet sprinter born 26 October 1939, bronze medalist in the 4x100 m relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, 1968 100 m world record equaler (11.1), and three-time Olympian.
Lyudmila Khvedosyuk Pinayeva
Lyudmila Khvedosyuk Pinayeva (Людмила Хведосюк-Пинаева), Soviet kayak sprint canoeist born 1936; three Olympic golds (K-1 500 m 1964, 1968; K-2 500 m 1972), one bronze, seven world and six European titles.
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
Lyudmila Kondratyeva (Людмила Кондратьева), born 1958, Soviet sprinter, 1980 Olympic 100m champion (11.06, beating Marlies Göhr by 0.01), 1978 European 200m and relay champion, 1988 relay bronze medallist.
Lyudmila Lysenko
Lyudmila Ivanovna Lysenko (Shevtsova, Gurevich; 1934-2026), Soviet middle-distance runner, won 800 m gold at Rome 1960 in 2:04.3, equaling her world record; nine Soviet titles; later a coach in Ukraine.
Lyudmila Mikhaylovskaya
Lyudmila Mikhaylovskaya (Людмила Николаевна Михайловская, born 1937, Leningrad) is a Soviet volleyball setter, 1968 Olympic gold medalist, world champion 1960 and 1970; distinct from the Ukrainian figure skating referee Liudmyla Mykhaylivska (1947-2019).
Lyudmila Pakhomova
Lyudmila Pakhomova (Людмила Пахомова), Soviet ice dancer; with husband Aleksandr Gorshkov won the first Olympic ice dance gold, Innsbruck 1976, plus six World and six European titles; died of leukemia 1986.
Lyudmila Panchuk
Lyudmila Panchuk (Людмила Михайловна Панчук-Коломиец, 1956–2011), Soviet Ukrainian handball player; 1976 Montreal Olympic gold with USSR, 1982 world champion, Spartak Kyiv club player.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Людмила Павличенко), "Lady Death," Soviet Red Army sniper of the 25th Rifle Division, credited with 309 confirmed kills at Odessa and Sevastopol, Hero of the Soviet Union, and 1942 Allied tour figure.
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, born 1938, is a Russian writer and playwright whose work depicts harsh everyday Soviet life; her story collection won the 2010 World Fantasy Award.
Lyudmila Putina (Людмила Александровна Очеретная)
Lyudmila Putina, also known as Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, is the former wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin, first lady from 2000 to 2008 and again from 2012.
Lyudmila Rogozhina
Lyudmila Rogozhina (Людмила Николаевна Рогожина, married name Muravyova), Soviet basketball player born 1959 in Dnipro; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist, 1983 world champion, three-time European champion, later St. Petersburg sports administrator.
Lyudmila Shishova
Lyudmila Shishova (Людмила Николаевна Шишова), Soviet foil fencer born 1 June 1940 in Nizhny Novgorod; Olympic team foil gold at Rome 1960 and silver at Tokyo 1964; later a fencing coach and physician.
Lyudmila Shubina
Lyudmila Shubina (Людмила Егоровна Шубина, born 1948, Kazan) is a Soviet handball player who won gold in the first Olympic women's handball tournament at Montreal 1976, played for Spartak Baku, and later led Azerbaijan's Qarabağ club.
Lyudmila Titova
Lyudmila Titova (Людмила Евгеньевна Титова), Soviet speed skater born 1946 in Chita; 1968 Olympic 500 m champion and 1,000 m silver medalist, 1972 500 m bronze, three 1,000 m world records.
Lyudmila Turishcheva
Lyudmila Turishcheva (Людмила Ивановна Турищева), born 1952 in Grozny, Soviet artistic gymnast; 1972 Olympic all-around champion, 1970/1974 World and 1971/1973 European champion, nine Olympic medals, later wife of Valeriy Borzov and Soviet coach.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Людмила Евгеньевна Улицкая)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Людмила Улицкая), also Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya, born 1943, is a Russian novelist who won the Russian Booker Prize in 2001 and lives in Germany.
Lyudmila Veselkova
Lyudmila Veselkova (born 1950), Soviet 800m runner; set the ratified women's mile world record 4:20.89 (Bologna, 12 Sep 1981), won the 1981 World Cup 800m in Rome (1:57.48), and took 1982 European 800m silver in Athens with a 1:55.96 personal best.
Lyudmila Yegorova
Lyudmila Borisovna Yegorova (Людмила Борисовна Егорова), Soviet artistic gymnast (1931–2009), won team gold and portable apparatus bronze at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics; best individual finish ninth on vault.
Lyut
Lyut (Ukrainian: «Лють», "Rage") is a Ukrainian combat unmanned ground vehicle armed with a 7.62 mm machine gun, codified by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence in March 2025.
LYVE1
LYVE1 (LYVE-1, XLKD1, CRSBP-1) is a human gene on 11p15.4 encoding a CD44-homologous type I membrane hyaluronan receptor on lymphatic capillary endothelium, liver sinusoidal endothelial cells, and macrophages; a standard lymphatic marker with a mild knockout phenotype.
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, also known as Graf Zeppelin I, was a German passenger rigid airship that made the first commercial transatlantic flight in 1928 and circled the globe in 1929.
LZ 129 Hindenburg
The LZ 129 Hindenburg, the largest airship of its time, carried passengers across the Atlantic in 1936 before burning at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937.
LZ77 and LZ78
LZ77 and LZ78, also known as Lempel–Ziv coding, are lossless data-compression algorithms published by Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel in 1977 and 1978, ancestors of most compressors today.
LZM009 (anti-PD-1 antibody)
LZM009, also known as lipustobart (利普苏拜单抗), is a humanized anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody developed by China's Livzon Mabpharm, trialed in thymic carcinoma and licensed to Bright Peak Therapeutics.
Lzzy Hale
Lzzy Hale (Elizabeth Mae Hale, born 1983, Red Lion, Pennsylvania) is the American singer-guitarist and frontwoman of Halestorm, the Grammy-winning hard rock band she co-founded with brother Arejay in 1997; first female-fronted band to win Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance (2013).