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List of people who died in traffic collisions
List of people who died in traffic collisions: notable individuals whose cause of death was a road traffic crash, including Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, T. E. Lawrence, George S. Patton, Jim Clark, Cliff Burton, and Anne Heche, against the 30-day statistical definition and a global toll of about 1.19 million road deaths a year.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously (1970s)
A list of 1970s disappearance cases spanning individual unsolved vanishings like Etan Patz, the secret burials of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, and mass state disappearances in Latin America.
List of people with the most children
People with the most children: the first Mrs Vassilyev (Shuya, Russia) holds the Guinness record with 69 children in 27 confinements; Geraldine Brodrick and Halima Cissé share the single-birth record of nine.
List of philanthropists
List of philanthropists: ranked rosters such as the Chronicle's Philanthropy 50 and the Giving Pledge, covering top givers like Bloomberg, MacKenzie Scott, and Buffett, compilation methods, and criticisms.
List of prostitutes and courtesans
Prostitutes and courtesans across history: named figures such as Rhodopis, Veronica Franco, and Valtesse de la Bigne, plus categories like hetaira, cortigiana onesta, mingji, and tawa'if, with sources.
List of reportedly LGBTQ state leaders throughout history
Reportedly LGBTQ state leaders across history: Han emperors including Ai, William Rufus, Edward II, Richard I, James I, Frederick the Great, and James Buchanan, with historiographical cautions about applying modern identity labels to premodern rulers.
List of sibling groups
Sibling group: a set of people sharing a parent, studied as a sibship, kept together in foster care placement, or performing as a sibling pop act such as Akdong Musician and the DeFranco Family.
List of slaves
A list of slaves, also called a list of enslaved people, is a historical register or census schedule enumerating enslaved people by name or number, kept by enslavers and governments.
List of social movements
List of social movements: overview of social movements as sustained collective efforts for change, covering Aberle's revolutionary, redemptive, reformative, and alternative typology, resource mobilization and political process theories, and examples from anti-slavery to civil rights.
List of social nudity places in Europe
Social nudity places in Europe: designated FKK and naturiste beaches, campsites, resorts and villages such as Heliopolis (1931), Euronat (335 ha), Cap d'Agde, Koversada, Valalta, Vera Playa and Maspalomas, with formats, legal footing and etiquette.
List of sundown towns in the United States
List of sundown towns in the United States: compilations of places that deliberately excluded Black residents, chiefly 1890-1968, identified by James Loewen and the Tougaloo registry; 2,248 places in a 2024 dataset, concentrated outside the South, with Illinois alone holding 456.
List of transgender people
List of transgender people: compilations of documented trans individuals from history and today, including Christine Jorgensen, Michael Dillon, Marsha P. Johnson, Andrea Jenkins, and Sarah McBride, with notes on sourcing and terminology limits.
List of women's organizations
Women's organizations, from the International Council of Women (founded 1888) and International Alliance of Women (1904) to DAWN and UN Women coalitions, advance gender equality through UN advocacy, development programs, and civil society networks.
List of youngest parents
List of youngest parents: documents record early parenthood, led by Lina Medina of Peru, youngest confirmed mother (born May 1939 at age 5 years 7 months 21 days, cesarean son Gerardo), plus unconfirmed youngest-father cases and global adolescent birth-rate context.
Litter
Litter is waste discarded outside proper disposal systems, on roadsides, parks, beaches, and waterways. Emerging as a US public issue after World War II amid disposable packaging, it is addressed by Keep America Beautiful campaigns, container deposit laws, and legal cleanup duties.
Livestrong Foundation
Livestrong Foundation, formerly the Lance Armstrong Foundation, is an Austin, Texas cancer-survivorship nonprofit founded in 1997, known for the 2004 $1 yellow Nike wristband, renamed in 2012 after Armstrong's doping ban.
Livia Giuggioli Firth
Livia Giuggioli Firth, Italian sustainability campaigner, founder of the Green Carpet Challenge and co-founder of Eco-Age, a consultancy that closed in 2024 after fraud and relaunched in 2025.
Living apart together
Living apart together (LAT) is a committed intimate relationship in which partners keep separate households. Coined by Cees J. Straver in 1980; common among older adults; about one third of unmarried US adults.
Lizzie Velásquez
Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989, Austin, Texas) is an American motivational speaker, author, and anti-bullying activist with a rare fat-accumulation disorder, known for her viral TEDxAustinWomen talk and the documentary A Brave Heart.
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف)
Loay Alshareef (لؤي الشريف) is a Saudi-born Muslim linguist, educator, and peace activist based in Abu Dhabi, also called Louay Al Sharif. A Penn State master's graduate and PR company owner, he advocates Muslim-Jewish reconciliation and the Abraham Accords as a self-described Muslim Zionist.
Log Cabin Republicans
Log Cabin Republicans: organization of LGBT conservatives and allies within the U.S. Republican Party, founded in 1970s California against the Briggs Initiative, named for Lincoln, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Logan Brown (activist)
Logan Brown, British transgender man and activist, documented his pregnancy as Up The Duff Man, appeared on Glamour UK's June 2023 Pride cover, and wrote the children's book In My Daddy's Belly (2023) with partner Bailey J Mills.
Long-distance relationship
Long-distance relationship (LDR): a romantic partnership between geographically separated partners, also called non-proximal relationship; distinguished from geographically close relationships by mediated communication, visits, similar satisfaction but equal breakup rates.
Looksmaxxing
Looksmaxxing (lookmaxxing) is an online subculture from incel forums, around 2015, focused on maximizing male appearance via softmaxxing (grooming) and hardmaxxing (surgery, bonesmashing); mainstreamed on TikTok and linked to body image harms.
Loretta Ross
Loretta J. Ross, born 1953, is an African American activist and Smith College professor who co-created the reproductive justice framework in 1994, co-founded SisterSong, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie), Anglo-Irish matriarch born in British India, widowed 1928, moved her family from Bournemouth to Corfu in 1935; mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, later portrayed by Keeley Hawes in ITV's The Durrells.
Love at first sight
Love at first sight (LAFS) is the reported experience of instant romantic love on first seeing someone. Research, chiefly Zsok et al. 2017, finds it reflects strong physical attraction and infatuation, not passion, intimacy, or commitment.
Love lock
Love lock (love padlock): padlock inscribed with a couple's names, locked to a bridge or public structure with the key thrown into water, popularized by Moccia's 2006 novel; Pont des Arts collapse and mass removals made it a contested global custom.
Love marriage
Love marriage, or choice marriage, is a marriage in which partners choose each other based on romantic attraction, contrasting with arranged marriage; it rose in the 18th-century West, and satisfaction studies versus arranged marriage show mixed results.
Love triangle
Love triangle: a three-person romantic structure, either two rivals for one person or one person involved with two others. Covers jealousy research, Sternberg's triangular theory of love, and its use from Arthurian romance to telenovelas and Wattpad fiction.