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Longshan black pottery
Longshan black pottery (黑陶) is the highly polished, thin-walled black ware made by the Longshan culture of Neolithic China, centered in Shandong around 2600 to 1900 BCE and considered the peak of prehistoric Chinese pottery.
Loom
A loom is a device that interlaces warp and weft yarns to weave cloth, via shedding, picking, and beat-up. Looms divide into handlooms (manual) and powerlooms (motorized, including shuttleless rapier, air-jet, and water-jet types), ranging from backstrap and pit looms to Jacquard and automatic machines.
Lopamudra Raut
Lopamudra Raut, Indian model and actor from Nagpur, Miss United Continents India 2016; second runner-up at Miss United Continents 2016 in Guayaquil with Best National Costume and $15,000; Bigg Boss 10 second runner-up; electrical engineer.
Lord & Taylor
Lord & Taylor, founded 1826 by Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor, was America's oldest department store; it closed all 38 stores in 2020 and now operates online under Regal Brands Global.
Loro Piana
Loro Piana is an Italian luxury fashion house founded by Pietro Loro Piana in 1924, known for cashmere and fine wools and owned by LVMH since 2013.
Lorraine Pascale
Lorraine Pascale (born 1972, London) is a British celebrity chef, cookbook author, and former 1990s fashion model, first black British model on US Elle, known for BBC's Baking Made Easy and Food Network judging roles.
Los Pollos Hermanos
Los Pollos Hermanos ("The Chicken Brothers") is the fictional fried-chicken chain in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, founded by Gus Fring, run as a meth front, filmed at Twisters in Albuquerque, with 2017 pop-ups and a $10 million fictional valuation.
Losar
Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་) is the Tibetan and Himalayan New Year, from lo (year) and sar (new), set by the lunisolar Tibetan calendar in February or March. Variants include Gyalpo, Sonam, and Tamu Losar; celebrations last about fifteen days with purification rites, guthuk soup, khapse, and prayer flags.
Lota (लोटा) (vessel)
The lota (लोटा) is a round-bodied, narrow-necked South Asian water vessel used for drinking, ablutions, and ritual; known regionally as karuwa, bodna, kindi, or chambu, and cited by the Eameses as exemplary design.
Lotto Sport Italia
Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports footwear and apparel brand founded in 1973 by the Caberlotto brothers in Montebelluna, Treviso, known for its double-field logo, tennis heritage, laceless Zhero soccer boots, and WHP Global ownership; distinct from the LottoItalia lottery consortium.
Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Bakeries, also branded Biscoff, is a Belgian family-controlled snacking company founded in 1932 in Lembeke, known for Lotus Biscoff caramelised cookies and spread, listed on Euronext Brussels (LOTB) with 2025 revenue of EUR 1,355 million.
Louis Vuitton (designer)
Louis Vuitton (1821–1892) was a French trunk maker and packer who founded the eponymous luggage house in Paris in 1854, pioneered the flat-topped, stackable trunk, and served Empress Eugénie.
Louis XIII (cognac)
Louis XIII is Rémy Martin's ultra-premium cognac, created in 1874 by Paul-Émile Rémy Martin: a blend of up to 1,200 Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie aged 40–100 years, bottled at 40% ABV in a Baccarat decanter, retailing from just over £3,000.
Louisa Pesel
Louisa Frances Pesel (1870–1947) was an English embroiderer, teacher and collector; Director of the Royal Hellenic School in Athens, first President of the Embroiderers' Guild, and leader of the Winchester Cathedral embroideries.
Louise Trotter
Louise Trotter (born 1969, Sunderland) is a British fashion designer and creative director of Bottega Veneta since January 2025, succeeding Matthieu Blazy; previously led Carven, Lacoste (first female creative director), and Joseph.
Louisiana Creole cuisine
Louisiana Creole cuisine, cuisine Creole, is the urban New Orleans culinary tradition blending French, Spanish, African, Caribbean, Native American, and Italian influences; known for gumbo, jambalaya, tomatoes, and the Holy Trinity, distinct from rural Cajun cooking.
Loupiac
Loupiac, Gironde commune in Entre-deux-Mers, France, home to the Gallo-Roman villa and Benedictine priory of Saint-Romain (Monument Historique, 2011/2024) and the AOC Loupiac sweet white wine, similar to Sauternes.
Lourdes Leon
Lourdes (Lola) Leon, stage name Lolahol, is an American model, dancer, choreographer, and singer born in 1996 to Madonna and Carlos Leon; debuted with Stella McCartney in 2016 and the single "Lock&Key" in 2022.
Lower-back tattoo
Lower-back tattoo, aka tramp stamp, a lumbar tattoo placement that boomed with 1990s low-rise fashion, drew a misogynistic nickname, declined, and revived in the 2020s with custom designs and Gen Z reclaiming the term.
Loy Krathong (ลอยกระทง)
Loy Krathong (ลอยกระทง) is a Thai festival involving floating decorated offering boats called krathongs, a tradition recognized as national intangible cultural heritage in 2011.
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman (born 1950, Massachusetts) is a British-American broadcaster known for MasterChef and Through the Keyhole, creator of Loyd Grossman sauces, NHS Better Hospital Food panel chair, and Chair of the RSA from 2024, knighted in 2025.
Luca Manfè
Luca Manfè, Italian chef from Aviano, Friuli, and New York restaurant manager; winner of MasterChef US Season 4 (2013), first male and first returning winner, cookbook author of My Italian Kitchen, Dinner with Luca host.
Lucas Sin
Lucas Sin is a chef and restaurateur who cofounded Junzi Kitchen and Nice Day Chinese. A Yale graduate, he has received multiple accolades, including a James Beard Media Award.
Lucie Rie
Lucie Rie (1902–1995), born Lucie Gomperz in Vienna, was an Austrian-British studio potter who fled to London in 1938 and became one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century studio pottery.
Lucienne Day
Lucienne Day (1917–2010) was a British textile designer whose abstract pattern 'Calyx', made for the 1951 Festival of Britain, made her the foremost British textile designer of her period.
Lucio Tan
Lucio Tan (陈永栽, Chen Yongzai), born in Fujian, is a Chinese-Filipino billionaire who founded Fortune Tobacco in 1966, acquired Philippine Airlines, and survived two decades of Marcos-era sequestration litigation.
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡)
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡) is a Chinese coffee chain headquartered in Xiamen, founded in 2017, which survived a 2020 accounting fraud to become China's largest coffee chain.
Lucky Blue Smith
Lucky Blue Smith is an American male model born 1998 in Spanish Fork, Utah, an Instagram-era modeling star with over a million followers by 17, Tom Ford and Calvin Klein campaigns, drummer of The Atomics, and husband of model Nara Smith.
Lucky Charms
Lucky Charms is an American sweetened breakfast cereal made by General Mills since 1964, pairing frosted whole-grain oat pieces with small colored marshmallows called marbits.
Lucy Mecklenburgh
Lucy Mecklenburgh, born 1991, is an English reality TV star, model, and entrepreneur known for The Only Way Is Essex (2010–2013) and co-founding the Results With Lucy fitness platform, now RWL.