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Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Canadian physician and former NFL guard (Chiefs, Jets), Super Bowl LIV champion, first active NFL player with a medical degree (McGill, 2018), 2020 opt-out for COVID-19 front-line work.
Laurent Koscielny
Laurent Koscielny, born 1985 in Tulle, France, is a retired central defender who played nine seasons at Arsenal (353 games, 3 FA Cups), won 51 France caps, finished Euro 2016 runner-up, ended at Bordeaux in 2022, and is now FC Lorient sporting director.
Laurent Mendy (footballer, born 1997)
Laurent Mendy (born 1997) is a French footballer, centre-back or defensive midfielder for Heart of Midlothian; joined from Forest Green Rovers in July 2026 for over £500,000, distinct from the Senegalese midfielder born 2001.
Laurent Ottoz
Laurent Ottoz (Laurent Jacques Denis Ottoz Calvesi), Italian hurdler born 1970 in Brescia; son of Eddy Ottoz. Broke his father's 110mH Italian record with 13.42 (1994), holds the 200mH world best 22.55, and ran 48.52 in the 400mH at Atlanta 1996.
Laurent Porchier
Laurent Porchier, born 1968 in Bourg-de-Péage, is a French rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's lightweight coxless four at Sydney 2000 with Bette, Hocdé, and Dorfman, plus four World medals and a 2001 lightweight eight world title.
Laurentia Tan
Laurentia Tan (Tan Yen-Yi), born 1979, Singaporean para-equestrian dressage rider with cerebral palsy and deafness; four Paralympic medals, first Singaporean Paralympic and first Asian Paralympic equestrian medallist.
Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year
The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year honors the male athlete judged to have delivered the outstanding sporting performance of the previous year, first awarded in 2000.
Laureus World Sports Awards
Laureus World Sports Awards: annual honors for the world's best athletes, teams, and sports programs, first held in Monaco in 2000 with patron Nelson Mandela; winners voted by the 69-member Laureus World Sports Academy.
Lauri Koskela
Lauri Koskela (1907-1944), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler; Olympic featherweight bronze 1932 and lightweight gold 1936; European champion 1935, 1937, 1938; killed in the Continuation War.
Lauri Lehtinen
Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen (1908–1973), Finnish long-distance runner. Won 5,000 m gold at Los Angeles 1932 in 14:30.0 after setting a 14:17.0 world record, and silver at Berlin 1936 behind Gunnar Höckert.
Lauri Markkanen
Lauri Markkanen (born 1997) is a 7-foot-1 Finnish basketball player for the Utah Jazz, drafted seventh overall in 2017 and an NBA All-Star and Most Improved Player in 2023.
Lauriane Rougeau
Lauriane Rougeau, Canadian ice hockey defenceman born 1990 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec; Olympic gold Sochi 2014, silver PyeongChang 2018; world gold 2012; Cornell and CWHL Montreal star.
Laurie Baker
Laurie Baker (Laurie Baker-Mutch), born 1976 in Concord, Massachusetts, is an American ice hockey forward who won gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and silver in 2002, starred at Providence College, and was 1997 USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year.
Laurie Cunningham
Laurie Cunningham (Lawrence Paul Cunningham, 1956-1989), English winger of Jamaican Windrush family; West Brom 'Three Degrees' star, first British player of Real Madrid (66 games, 20 goals, La Liga 1980), England's first black competitive international; died in a 1989 Madrid car crash.
Laurie Doherty
Laurie Doherty (Hugh Lawrence Doherty, 1875-1919), English tennis player, 1900 Olympic singles and doubles gold medalist, five-time Wimbledon singles champion, and first player to win a major outside his home country.
Laurie Evans (cricketer)
Laurie Evans (Laurie John Evans, born 1987, Lambeth, London) is an English right-handed T20 batsman for Surrey, formerly Warwickshire and Sussex, and franchises including Perth Scorchers; never capped by England.
Laurie Hernandez
Laurie Hernandez (Lauren Zoe Hernandez, b. 2000), American gymnast, 2016 Rio Olympic team gold and beam silver with the Final Five, DWTS season 23 champion, later NBC analyst, author, and UNICEF Ambassador.
Laurie Morgan
Laurie Morgan (Lawrence Robert Morgan, 1915-1997), Australian equestrian who won individual and team eventing gold at Rome 1960 on Salad Days, Australia's first Olympic equestrian medals; also a VFL footballer, boxer, rower, and steeplechase jockey.
Laurie Stevens
Laurie Stevens (Lawrence Stevens, 1913–1989), South African boxer; won lightweight gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, silver at the 1930 British Empire Games, and later the British Empire lightweight and South African welterweight pro titles.
Laurien Leurink
Laurien Leurink, Dutch field hockey midfielder (born 1994, Utrecht), won Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and gold at Tokyo 2020 with the Netherlands, earned 133 caps with 29 goals and 43 assists, and retired from international hockey in March 2023.
Laurien Willemse
Laurien Willemse (Laura Eveline Willemse-Gales), Dutch field hockey player born 1962 in Haarlem; won Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Los Angeles 1984 and bronze at Seoul 1988, scoring a 65th-minute penalty corner equalizer against Canada in 1984.
Lauritz Christiansen
Lauritz Christiansen names two Olympic athletes: Karl Lauritz Christiansen (1892-1976), Danish cross-country runner, 14th at Stockholm 1912; and Lauritz Christian Christiansen (1867-1930), Norwegian sailor, 1920 12-metre class gold medalist.
Lauritz Schoof
Lauritz-Johannes Schoof (born 1990, Rendsburg) is a German rower, double Olympic champion in the men's quadruple sculls at London 2012 and Rio 2016, 2015 world champion, now a cardiology physician in Hamburg.
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Chenet Williams (born 1983, Pittsburgh) is an American sprinter and bobsledder, four-time Olympian with three medals: 2004 100m silver, 2012 4x100m relay gold, 2014 Sochi bobsled silver; first American woman to medal in both Summer and Winter Olympics.
Laus
Laus, German penalty-avoidance card game related to Ramsch; 3-4 players, 32 cards, jacks as trumps; queens carry 100-300 point penalties cancelled by the diamond queen.
Lautaro Martínez
Lautaro Javier Martínez (born 1997, Bahía Blanca) is an Argentine striker and Inter Milan captain, World Cup 2022 winner, two-time Serie A top scorer (2023/24, 2025/26), Inter's third-highest all-time scorer.
LaVar Arrington
LaVar Arrington (born 1978, Pittsburgh) is a former NFL linebacker, second overall pick in 2000 by Washington, three-time Pro Bowler, 1999 Butkus and Bednarik winner at Penn State, College Football Hall of Famer (2022), now a Fox Sports analyst.
LaVar Arrington II
LaVar Arrington II, Penn State Nittany Lions defensive end (formerly linebacker), No. 11, son of Hall of Fame linebacker LaVar Arrington; Charter Oak HS product, 2025 recruit, moved to DE in 2026.
Lavell Edwards Stadium
LaVell Edwards Stadium, formerly Cougar Stadium, is BYU's 62,073-seat football stadium in Provo, Utah, opened in 1964, expanded in 1982, and renamed in 2000 for coach LaVell Edwards.
Lavender Town
Lavender Town (シオンタウン) is the Kanto Pokémon graveyard town with the seven-story Pokémon Tower, whose eerie theme music inspired the debunked Lavender Town Syndrome creepypasta about child suicides.