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Little Manila
Little Manila: historic Filipino American neighborhood in south Stockton, California, centered on El Dorado and Lafayette Streets; the largest Filipino community outside the Philippines from the 1920s to the 1960s, later demolished by the Crosstown Freeway; name also used in Toronto and Queens.
Livonians
Livonians (līvlizt, Latvian lībieši) are a Finnic people indigenous to Latvia, once inhabiting a third of the country, now about 200 people with roughly 40-50 critically endangered speakers of the Livonian language.
Long weekend
Long weekend: a three-plus-day break from a public holiday adjacent to the weekend. Also called oval weekend or bridge weekend. Covers holiday placement laws, China's weekend swaps, make-up days, and travel effects.
Lord
Lord: British title of nobility used for peers of the realm (baron to marquess, not dukes); today mostly life peers in the House of Lords after the 2026 hereditary exclusion.
Lorenzo Sewell
Lorenzo Sewell, also Pastor Zo, Detroit pastor of non-denominational 180 Church; Trump 2024 ally, RNC 2024 speaker, benediction at Trump's January 2025 inauguration quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944), First Lady 1929-1933, wife of Herbert Hoover; first woman geology graduate of Stanford, Mandarin speaker, De Re Metallica translator, Girl Scouts president, first First Lady to speak on radio.
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creole people, also called Creoles of color and white Creoles, are the native people of colonial Louisiana of French, Spanish, African, and Native American descent, defined historically by Louisiana birth, Catholic faith, and French or Kouri-Vini language, not by race.
Loyal Order of Moose
Loyal Order of Moose, fraternal order founded 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky by Dr. John Henry Wilson; revived by James J. Davis, runs Mooseheart school and Moosehaven retirement home, over 1,000,000 members.
Lucien Carr
Lucien Carr (1925-2005), American journalist and UPI news editor who brought together Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs at Columbia in 1944, founding the Beat circle, and served prison time for manslaughter in the killing of David Kammerer.
Luhya people
The Luhya (Luyia, Abaluhya) are Kenya's second-largest ethnic group, about 5.3 million Bantu-speaking people in western Kenya, comprising roughly 17-18 sub-groups such as the Bukusu and Maragoli, with no single Luhya language.
Lumad
Lumad (Lumadnon) is the collective name for Mindanao's non-Moro indigenous peoples, adopted June 26, 1986 in Cotabato; Cebuano for native. Covers 15-plus groups, IPRA land rights, and school-closure conflict.
Lumbee
The Lumbee are a North Carolina tribe recognized by the state since 1885, descended per congressional findings from the Cheraw and related Siouan tribes; the 1956 Lumbee Act withheld federal benefits until full recognition on December 18, 2025.
Luo migration
The Luo migration was the southward movement of Luo-speaking peoples from a Nile homeland in South Sudan into Uganda, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania over roughly five centuries.
Luo people
The Luo are a Nilotic-speaking people of East Africa, over 3 million in western Kenya around Lake Victoria, speaking Dholuo, migrated from Sudan over 500 years, organized in clans, farming, herding, and fishing.
Lurker
Lurker: a member of an online community who reads regularly but seldom or never posts; also called silent majority. Defined by the Jargon Dictionary, quantified by Nielsen's 90-9-1 participation inequality rule, studied by Nonnecke and Preece.
Lurs
Lurs (Lor) are an Iranian people of the southern Zagros, western Iran, speaking Northern and Southern Luri related to Persian, mostly Twelver Shi'ite, historically pastoral nomads, ~3.5-4 million, including Bakhtiaris (Lur-e Bozorg), Mamasani, and Kuhgiluya.
Lusitanians
The Lusitanians (Latin Lusitani) were an ancient Indo-European people of western Iberia between the Tagus and Douro rivers, speakers of the non-Celtic Lusitanian language, famed for Viriathus's resistance to Rome and for giving their name to the Roman province of Lusitania.
Lykov family
Lykov family: Russian Old Believers who fled Soviet persecution in 1936 and lived over 40 years in total isolation in the Siberian taiga until geologists found them in 1978; Agafia Lykova survives.
Maasai people
Maasai: semi-nomadic Nilotic pastoralists (Maa language) of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, about 160,000 km2 of rangeland; known for cattle-centered culture and conflicts over conservation, parks, and tourism land loss.
Macedonians (Македонци) (ethnic group)
Macedonians (Македонци, Makedonci) are the South Slavic majority ethnic group of North Macedonia, speaking Macedonian; 58.44% of residents declared as such in the 2021 census, with identity contested by Greece and Bulgaria.
Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Talmage Force Astor (1893–1940), American socialite, Titanic first-class survivor in lifeboat 4, pregnant teenage wife of John Jacob Astor IV; mother of the "Titanic baby," John Jacob Astor VI.
Madison Grant
Madison Grant (1865–1937), American lawyer, conservationist, and eugenicist; co-founder of the Bronx Zoo and Boone and Crockett Club member; author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), which shaped the 1924 Immigration Act and influenced Nazi racial policy.
Madison Marilla
Madison Marilla is an American autism advocate, educator, and Love on the Spectrum U.S. Season 3 cast member, engaged to Tyler White, founder of Madizen jewelry, not an ethnic group; the name is a personal name misplaced in taxonomy.
Magars
Magars (मगर), Nepal's largest indigenous janajati (2,013,498 in the 2021 census), a Tibeto-Burman hill people of the Rapti-Gandaki hills with Barha Magarati, Kham, and Kaike subgroups, Bheja-Rodhi governance, and Gurkha military tradition.
Maghrebi Jews
Maghrebi Jews are the historic Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, about 500,000 strong before World War II, speaking Judeo-Arabic, Haketia, and Judeo-Berber, and now mostly living in Israel, France, and Canada.
Magyar tribes
Magyar tribes: the seven named tribes (Nyék, Megyer, Kürtgyarmat, Tarján, Jenő, Kér, Keszi) plus Kabar groups forming the early Hungarian confederation under Khazar rule, entering the Carpathian Basin in the late 9th century.
Mahar
Mahar (महार), a Dalit untouchable caste-cluster of Maharashtra and the Deccan, known for military service at Koregaon (1818), exclusion after 1892, leadership by B. R. Ambedkar, the 1927 Mahad satyagraha, and mass conversion to Buddhism in 1956.
Mahi people
The Mahi are an ethnic group of central Benin, formed by centuries of resistance to the kingdom of Dahomey and now about 17 percent of the population.
Mahra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also called Mahra M1, is a Dubai royal, daughter of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Zoe Grigorakos, founder of the Mahra M1 fragrance brand, formerly married to Sheikh Mana, and engaged to rapper French Montana.
Maid
Maid: female domestic worker performing household labor such as cleaning, cooking, and care in private homes; also called domestic worker. 75.6 million domestic workers worldwide, 81% informal; ILO Convention 189 (2011) set the first global standards.