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Lesław Cmikiewicz
Lesław Ćmikiewicz, Polish midfielder and coach (born 1947 or officially 1948, Wrocław), Olympic gold 1972 and silver 1976, 1974 World Cup third place, Legia Warszawa 1970–1979, later Poland assistant and caretaker coach in 1993.
Lesley Bush
Lesley Leigh Bush, American diver born 1947 in Orange, New Jersey; won 10 m platform gold at Tokyo 1964 at 16, 1967 Pan Am champion, 1968 Olympian, ISHOF honoree.
Lesley Thompson Willie
Lesley Thompson-Willie, Canadian rowing coxswain born 1959 in Toronto, won five Olympic medals (gold, Barcelona 1992 women's eight) over a record-tying eight Games and 10 world championship medals.
Leslie Benzies
Leslie Benzies, Scottish game producer, former president of Rockstar North and lead on GTA III, IV, and V; left in 2016, sued Take-Two for $150 million in royalties, founded Build A Rocket Boy (Everywhere, MindsEye).
Leslie Burr Howard
Leslie Burr Howard (Leslie Michele Burr-Howard), American show jumper born 1956 in Westport, Connecticut; Olympic team jumping gold 1984 on Albany, silver 1996 on Extreme; 1986 FEI World Cup champion.
Leslie Claudius
Leslie Walter Claudius (1927-2012), Indian field hockey right-half; with Udham Singh one of only two Indians to win four Olympic hockey medals (gold 1948, 1952, 1956; silver 1960 as captain); first to 100 caps; Padma Shri 1971.
Leslie Frazier
Leslie Frazier (born 1959, Columbus, Mississippi) is an NFL coach, Seattle Seahawks assistant head coach since 2024, former Vikings head coach (2010-13, 21-32-1), Bills defensive coordinator, and 1985 Bears Super Bowl XX cornerback.
Leslie Hables
Leslie Hables (Leslie I. Hables), American sprinter for Stanford University in the early 1930s; ran third leg on the 1931 world-record 4x440-yard relay (3:12.6) with Shove, Alvin Hables, and Ben Eastman, and placed 2nd in the 220 yards at the 1931 IC4A meet.
Leslie Hammond
Leslie Hammond (Leslie Charles Hammond, 1905–1955) was an Indian field hockey left back who won Olympic gold with British India at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, later emigrating to Australia.
Leslie Law
Leslie Law (Leslie Francis Law), British eventing rider born 1965 in Hereford; Olympic individual gold and team silver at Athens 2004 on Shear L'Eau after a CAS ruling, team silver at Sydney 2000 on Shear H2O.
Leslie Wormald
Leslie Graham Wormald (1890-1965), English rower, Magdalen College Oxford and Leander Club; won gold in the men's eights for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; won three Boat Races; Military Cross recipient.
Lesman Paredes
Lesman Paredes (Lesman Teodoro Paredes Montano), Bahraini weightlifter born 1996 in Cali, Colombia; two-time 96 kg world champion (2021 Tashkent, 2022 Bogota), 187 kg snatch world record, sixth at Paris 2024 in 102 kg.
Lesotho national olympic committee
The Lesotho National Olympic Committee (LNOC), also the Commonwealth Games Association of Lesotho, was founded in 1971 and recognized by the IOC in 1972, when Lesotho made its Olympic debut.
Lester Hayes
Lester Hayes, Raiders cornerback 1977-1986, two-time Super Bowl champion, 1980 NFL Defensive Player of the Year with 13 interceptions, 39 career picks, Stickum rule namesake, not in Hall of Fame.
Lester Piggott
Lester Keith Piggott (1935-2022), English Flat jockey nicknamed The Long Fellow; record nine Epsom Derby wins, record 30 British Classics, 11 championships, 4,493 British winners, 1987 tax-fraud prison term, 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile comeback.
Lester Reiff
Lester Reiff (1877–1948), American jockey, champion in England 1900 with 143 wins and 1901 Derby winner on Volodyovski; banned by the Jockey Club in October 1901 for not trying in the New Barns Plate at Manchester, ending his career.
Lester Speight
Lester Speight, also known as Mighty Rasta, is an American actor and former professional wrestler born in 1963 in Baltimore, known for voicing Augustus "Cole Train" Cole in Gears of War.
Lester Steers
Lester "Les" Steers (born 16 June 1917) is an American high jumper who set the men's high jump world record of 2.11 m on 17 June 1941 in Los Angeles, the first man over 2.10 m; the mark stood 12 years.
Leszek Blanik
Leszek Robert Blanik (born 1977, Wodzisław Śląski) is a Polish vault specialist, Olympic vault champion Beijing 2008 (16.537) and bronze medalist Sydney 2000, with the FIG element 332 named "blanik"; later PZG president.
Let It Die (レット・イット・ダイ) (video game)
Let It Die (レット・イット・ダイ) is a 2016 free-to-play roguelike survival action game by Grasshopper Manufacture and GungHo for PS4 and Steam, set in the Tower of Barbs with Uncle Death; its online service ended September 1, 2026, replaced by a paid offline version.
Let it ride
Let It Ride is a house-banked casino poker game introduced by Shuffle Master in 1993: three equal bets, three private cards, two community cards, two chances to pull bets back, paid on a fixed pay table from tens or better to a 1,000:1 royal flush.
Let's Go Surfing
Let's Go Surfing is an Australian surf school founded in 1995 by Brenda Miley and Craig Wachholz, operating at Bondi, Maroubra, Byron Bay, and Ballina-Lennox Head, known for small-group lessons, Parks Eco Pass licensing, LGBTQIA+ inclusion programs, and NSW Tourism Awards.
Let's Play
Let's Play (LP): video or screenshot series of someone playing a game with commentary, born on the Something Awful forums (subforum 2007; slowbeef's first video LP), spread via YouTube and Twitch, central to gaming culture and copyright debates.
Let's Run Farm Jeju
Let's Run Farm Jeju (렛츠런팜 제주), the Korea Racing Authority Jeju Ranch in Jocheon, is a racehorse-raising ranch over 2 million m² with stables, breeding and training facilities, free visitor access, distinct from LetsRun Park Jeju racecourse.
Letalnica bratov Gorišek
Letalnica bratov Gorišek (Gorišek Brothers Flying Hill) is a ski flying hill in Planica, Slovenia, opened 1969, designed by Janez and Lado Gorišek. HS 240 m; holds men's (254.5 m, Domen Prevc) and women's (242.5 m, Nika Prevc) world records.
Lethal Company
Lethal Company, by solo developer Zeekerss, is a co-op survival horror game on Steam Early Access since October 23, 2023, where players scavenge moons for scrap to meet rising Company quotas, famous for proximity voice chat and viral 2023 success.
Lethwei
Lethwei, or Burmese boxing (လက်ဝှေ့), is a bareknuckle full-contact combat sport from Myanmar where headbutts are legal and traditional fights are won only by knockout.
Letitia de Jong
Letitia de Jong, born 1993 in Veenwouden, is a Dutch sprint speed skater, twice world team sprint champion (2019, 2020) and holder of the 1:24.02 team sprint world record with Kok and Leerdam.
Letsile Tebogo
Letsile Tebogo (born 2003, Kanye, Botswana) is a sprinter, 200m Olympic champion at Paris 2024 in 19.46, Botswana's first Olympic gold medalist and Africa's first 200m Olympic champion.
Letterboxing (hobby)
Letterboxing: outdoor hobby begun on Dartmoor in 1854 by James Perrott at Cranmere Pool; finders follow written clues, not GPS, and exchange rubber-stamp impressions between the box's logbook and their personal logbook; distinct from geocaching (2000).