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List of semi-supercentenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)

Long-lived actors, filmmakers and entertainers: Ruthie Tompson (111), Frederica Sagor Maas (110+), Johannes Heesters (108), plus centenarians de Havilland, Rainer, Douglas, Lear; GRG document-based age validation.

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 Sigma Pi Phi members

Sigma Pi Phi (the Boulé), founded 1904 in Philadelphia, is the oldest Black Greek-letter graduate fraternity; members called Archons include Du Bois, Bunche, King Jr., Mays, Sullivan, and Graves.

List of Skull and Bones members

List of Skull and Bones members: rosters of the Yale senior society founded 1832 (the Eulogian Club, or The Order). Fifteen tapped juniors per year; names published until 1971; Sutton catalog 1833-1985; members include Taft and the two Bushes.

List of slang names for cannabis

Cannabis slang: over 1,200 informal terms (weed, pot, ganja, 420) for marijuana and its quantities, potency grades, and product forms, across English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and German, as recorded by DEA, poison-center, and slang-lexicon sources.

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 social sororities and women's fraternities

The list of social sororities and women's fraternities catalogs women's-only Greek-letter organizations, from Alpha Delta Pi in 1851 to the 26 sororities of the National Panhellenic Conference.

List of sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples

Sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples: Native American-themed identities in US and Canadian sports, from Redskins and Indians to Chiefs and Blackhawks, their history, documented harms, and retirements.

List of states and union territories of India by population

Ranks India's 35 states and union territories by population from the 2011 Census: Uttar Pradesh largest (199,812 thousand), Lakshadweep smallest (64 thousand), with rural-urban split, 2019 boundary changes, and Census 2027 context.

List of Stateside Puerto Rican communities

Stateside Puerto Rican communities: major Puerto Rican-origin population centers in the 50 states, led by New York City, then Philadelphia and Chicago, with more than six million Puerto Ricans stateside today.

List of subnational entities by Human Development Index

Subnational HDI rankings score states, provinces, and regions on health, education, and income. Main source: Global Data Lab SHDI (188 countries, 1805 regions); national offices like Indonesia's BPS publish their own lists.

List of subnational entities with the highest and lowest Human Development Index

Subnational HDI rankings list the highest- and lowest-scoring provinces, states, and regions within countries, drawn from the Global Data Lab SHDI database, national statistical offices such as Indonesia's BPS, and satellite-based estimates.

List of suicides (1900–1999)

Suicide in the 20th century (1900–1999): US rates ranged from 17.4 per 100,000 in 1932 to 9.8 in 1957; 30,904 US deaths in 1986; official counts understate incidence by an estimated 10%–50%.

List of suicides (2000–present)

List of suicides (2000–present): global suicide deaths and trends since 2000, WHO statistics (727,000 deaths yearly, 29% rate decline 2000–2019), notable deaths, Werther and Papageno media effects, and prevention efforts.

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 supercentenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)

List of supercentenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers): validated entertainers aged 110 or over, including Jeanne Calment, oldest film actress at 114 in Vincent and Me, plus Manoel de Oliveira and Ruthie Tompson.

List of Tamil people

The list of Tamil people covers notable individuals of Tamil identity, an ethnolinguistic community defined by the Tamil language in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and the diaspora.

List of Telugu castes

List of Telugu castes: official caste lists of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, covering 59 Scheduled Castes, BC groups A-E, dominant castes like Kamma and Reddy, and 2024 caste survey figures.

List of terms used for Germans

Terms for Germans across languages: endonym Deutsch (from theodisk 'of the people'), exonyms from Germania, Alemanni, Saxons, and Slavic němъ 'mute' (Niemiec, Němec), English Dutch/Pennsylvania Dutch, and pejoratives Hun, Boche, Kraut, mof.

List of tipping customs by country

Tipping customs by country: gratuity norms ranging from 18–22% expected in the United States and Canada, service-included rounding up in France, Germany, and the UK, to no tipping in Japan, China, and Australia.

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 twins

Twins: two offspring from one pregnancy, either monozygotic (identical, one egg splitting, 3–4 per 1,000 births) or dizygotic (fraternal, two eggs, family-linked). Covers the science, Galton's 1875 study, reared-apart research, and notable twin pairs.

List of U.S. cities with large Black populations

Ranks U.S. cities by Black or African American population: New York City leads by count (1.78M, 2020 Census); Grambling, Louisiana leads by share (96.5%); Stonecrest, GA tops large cities; NYC metro has the largest Black population.

List of U.S. state dogs

U.S. state dogs: official dog designations of individual states. 17 states have a state dog breed, from Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Retriever (1964, first) to Arkansas's Labrador Retriever (2025); others honor service, rescue, or adoptable dogs.

List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population

Ranking of U.S. states and DC by Black or African American population. Census counts Black alone 13.5% nationally; 2020 leaders Texas (3,552,997), Georgia, Florida; smallest Wyoming (5,232); 46.9 million Black respondents total.

List of U.S. states by Amish population

Ranking of U.S. states by Amish population, also called Amish population by state. Pennsylvania (96,535), Ohio (87,760), and Indiana (68,025) lead the 2026 estimates; 33 states total 414,545 horse-and-buggy Amish.

List of U.S. states by Hispanic and Latino population

A ranking of the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico by Hispanic and Latino population, where New Mexico leads in share and California in numbers.

List of U.S. states by road deaths

List of U.S. states by road deaths: 2024 FARS/IIHS figures showing 39,254 U.S. motor vehicle deaths, state counts (Texas 4,160, California 3,876), and rates ranging from Mississippi's 25.6 per 100,000 to Rhode Island's 4.7.