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List of United Kingdom censuses
United Kingdom censuses: decennial population counts since 1801, run by ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland), and NISRA (Northern Ireland); 1941 skipped, Scotland's latest held in 2022, next census in 2031.
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 Year in Search top searches
Year in Search is Google's annual December report ranking top trending searches, queries with the fastest year-over-year growth in search interest, not most-searched terms. Began as Year-End Google Zeitgeist (public from 2001); 2024 led by Copa America, 2025 by Gemini.
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.
Listening
Listening: the active process of receiving, interpreting, and responding to spoken and nonverbal messages, distinct from hearing. Covers active listening in healthcare, the cocktail party problem, listening effort, and L2 listening assessment.
Lists of Armenians
Lists of Armenians are reference compilations of notable people of Armenian origin by field, period, or country. Diaspora size (7–9 million), Armenian-origin citizenship criteria, and biographical sources shape who appears on them.
Lists of births by year
Lists of births by year are reference indexes organizing births, either of notable people or as demographic counts, by calendar year; related tools include books of days, census schedules, and civil registration records used for genealogy.
Lists of Padma Shri award recipients
Lists of Padma Shri award recipients: official annual rosters of India's fourth-highest civilian award, instituted 1954, announced on Republic Day; 3,757 Padma Shri awardees recorded, with yearly lists naming field, state, and country.
Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai) are the Baltic ethnic group forming 84.6 percent of Lithuania's 2021 population; they speak Lithuanian, founded the last pagan European state, and were Christianized in 1387.
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.
Little Albert experiment
The Little Albert experiment, Watson and Rayner's 1920 Johns Hopkins study, conditioned an infant called Albert B. to fear a white rat via loud noise; his identity, Douglas Merritte versus Albert Barger, remains disputed.
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.
Live television suicide
Live television suicide: a suicide or attempt broadcast in real time on TV or livestream, as with BJ Imvely in 2023. Treated as high contagion risk; WHO and Samaritans guidelines govern coverage.
Livestreamed suicide
Livestreamed suicide is the real-time internet broadcast of a suicide or attempt, documented in cases like South Korea's BJ Imvely; studied for suicide contagion, and addressed through platform takedowns and live-streaming safety guidance.
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.
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.
Liz Murray
Liz Murray (born 1980) is an American memoirist and motivational speaker, subject of Lifetime's Homeless to Harvard, author of Breaking Night (2010), who went from homelessness in the Bronx to Harvard.
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.
Loneliness
Loneliness is the subjective distress from a gap between desired and actual social connections, distinct from social isolation and solitude. WHO estimates 1 in 6 people affected, ~871,000 deaths yearly; emotional and social types; measured by UCLA and de Jong Gierveld scales.
Loneliness epidemic
Loneliness epidemic: public-health framing of widespread loneliness, named in Vivek Murthy's 2023 US Surgeon General advisory and the WHO's 2023 concern declaration; prevalence varies by measure, and trend evidence is contested.
Loner
Loner: a person who prefers being alone and minimizes social contact; distinct from loneliness (subjective deficit) and solitude (voluntary aloneness). Key facts: Preference for Solitude Scale, Big Five correlates, ostracism costs, health evidence.
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.
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.
Longfellow Boom
The Longfellow Boom is a loud, unexplained booming noise reported for several decades by residents of the Longfellow community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, mostly on summer nights.
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.