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Lambda Chi Alpha
Lambda Chi Alpha (ΛΧΑ), founded 1909 at Boston University by Warren A. Cole, is an international social college fraternity with about 185 chapters and 300,000 members, known for abolishing pledging in 1972 and for its Theta Kappa Nu merger.
Landed gentry
Landed gentry: untitled British and Irish landowning families, the lesser nobility below the peerage, graded as knights, esquires, and gentlemen, who held roughly half the land in some counties and dominated local government until their decline after the 1870s.
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ)
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ), Tai-speaking group on both sides of the Mekong: ethnic Lao are ~30% of Laos, while most Thai Northeasterners (Isan) are of Lao ethnicity. Historic Lan Xang kingdom, 1904 Siamese reclassification, and a 1975–1980s diaspora distinguish the group.
Lasse Lund
Lasse Lund (born 1992) is a Finnish-Norwegian dual citizen and viral social media figure who says he grew up alone on Mumbai's streets; his mother disputes the account, and Finland's foreign ministry admits consular failings.
Latin Americans
Latin Americans: inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean, about 588 million people (2013), over 80 percent urban, largely Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking, with high inequality, one in four on US$6.85/day (2023), and heavy emigration to the United States.
Latino (demonym)
Latino is a U.S. demonym for people of Latin American origin or descent, paired with Hispanic in the federal "Hispanic or Latino" category since 1997; it includes Brazil but not Spain, and most prefer "Hispanic".
Latinx
Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino/Latina for people of Latin American descent, coined from latino/latina plus x (first known use 2007). Awareness among U.S. Hispanics reached 47% in 2023, but only 4% use it and 81% prefer Hispanic or Latino.
Latte Line
The latte line is Sydney's informal socioeconomic boundary separating the affluent north-east from the less affluent south-west, running roughly from Sydney Airport past Parramatta; variants include the Red Rooster Line and Quinoa Curtain.
Latter Day Church of Christ
Latter Day Church of Christ, also called the Kingston Group, Kingston Clan, Davis County Cooperative Society, or the Order: a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous sect founded in 1935 in Bountiful, Utah, by Charles Elden Kingston, unaffiliated with the LDS Church and led by Paul Elden Kingston.
Latvians
Latvians (latvieši) are the Baltic-speaking people of Latvia, formed from the Curonian, Semigalian, Selonian, and Latgalian tribes; 63.8% of Latvia's 1.845 million residents in 2026, speaking Latvian, one of two surviving Baltic languages.
Laz people
The Laz people are a Kartvelian ethnic group of the eastern Black Sea coast in northeastern Turkey (Rize, Artvin) and southwestern Georgia, speaking Laz, a South Caucasian language closely related to Mingrelian, historically tied to Lazica and Islamized under Ottoman rule.
League of Koreans in Japan
The League of Koreans in Japan, known as Choryŏn or Chōren, was the main organization of Korean residents in occupied Japan, founded in October 1945.
Leakena In
Leakena In (អ៊ិន លក្ខិណា), born 2002 in Phnom Penh, is a Cambodian model, actress, and beauty queen: Miss Cosmo Cambodia 2024 (Top 10), appointed Miss World Cambodia 2026, and the Witch in the 2025 horror film The Reborn.
Leatherman (vagabond)
The Leatherman, also known as the Old Leather Man, was an unidentified vagabond who walked a 365-mile loop through Connecticut and New York from about 1857 until his death in 1889.
Lebanese diaspora
Lebanese diaspora (mughtarib, al-intishar): Lebanese-born migrants and their descendants abroad, estimated 885,000 first-generation (2014) and 4–13 million of descent, concentrated in Brazil, the US, the Gulf, and Australia, with waves since the 1870s.
Lebanese Druze
The Lebanese Druze are an 11th-century esoteric religious community of roughly 215,000 people, about 5 percent of Lebanon, concentrated in the Chouf and Mount Lebanon, historically defined by the 1860 war with the Maronites and led politically by the Jumblatt family.
Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني)
Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني) are the people of Lebanon and its roughly 14-million-strong diaspora, divided among 18 recognized religious sects, with no census since 1932 and remittances near a third of GDP.
Lemba people
Lemba (Remba), a southern African people of claimed Semitic and Black African origin living in Limpopo, southern Zimbabwe, and Mozambique; no distinct language; oral tradition of origin from Sena; contested Y-chromosome evidence of Middle Eastern ancestry.
Lenape
The Lenape, also called Lenni Lenape or the Delaware tribe, are an Indigenous people of the northeastern United States whose homeland became eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Levi Marhabi
Levi Salem Musa Marhabi (ليفي سالم موسى مرحبي), born about 1987, is a Yemeni Orthodox Jew, reportedly Yemen's last, held by the Houthis since March 2016 over an ancient Torah scroll, despite 2019 court release orders and US wrongful-detention findings.
Lewis Vaughan Jones
Lewis Vaughan Jones, Welsh BBC News presenter (born 1981, Penarth) of Breakfast, News at One and the News Channel; former ITV/ITN political correspondent; lost left-ear hearing suddenly in 2018 and anchors with a visible hearing implant; married to CNN anchor Hannah Vaughan Jones.
Lezgins (лезгияр)
Lezgins (лезгияр, Lezgi) are a Northeast Caucasian people of southern Dagestan, Russia, and northern Azerbaijan, split by the Samur River border; Lezgian-speaking Sunni Muslims, largest minority in Azerbaijan.
Lhotshampa people
Lhotshampa, also Lhotsampa, "people of the south": Nepali-speaking Hindu inhabitants of southern Bhutan, about 30% of the population, over 100,000 of whom were denationalized and expelled in the early 1990s.
Liberal elite
Liberal elite, also called the liberal establishment or limousine liberals: educated, often urban advantaged people with liberal views, portrayed as out of touch; rooted in elite theory and central to populist people-versus-elite rhetoric.
Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea
Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea were people displaced by the two civil wars who made Guinea one of Africa's largest refugee hosts in the 1990s.
Liberian refugee crisis
The Liberian refugee crisis was the mass displacement of Liberian civilians during the civil wars of 1989 to 2003, which drove hundreds of thousands into neighboring West African countries.
Lifespring
Lifespring, Inc. was a large group awareness training company founded by John Hanley Sr. in San Francisco, incorporated 1974; its five-day basic trainings drew thousands and dozens of lawsuits before the mid-1990s shutdown.
Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International (LCI), founded 1917 by Melvin Jones in Chicago, is a service club organization with 1.4 million Lions in 50,000 clubs across 200 countries, known for vision service, LCIF grants, and the MISSION 1.5 growth goal.
Lipka Tatars
Lipka Tatars, also called Lithuanian-Polish Tatars, are a Slavic-speaking Sunni Muslim minority in Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland, descended from Golden Horde settlers invited by Grand Duke Vytautas from 1397, serving as cavalry since Grunwald 1410 while keeping Islam but losing their Turkic language.
Lisa
Lisa: feminine given name, short form of Elisabeth/Elizabeth (also from Alice or Louisa); US top girls' name 1962–1969, peak 60,271 births in 1965, now 987th (2025); Nordic name days and registers.