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Large Scale Solar 5 (Malaysia)

Large Scale Solar 5 (LSS5), formally LSS PETRA, is the fifth competitive bidding round for utility-scale solar plants in Peninsular Malaysia, launched in 2024 with a 2,000 MW quota.

Large Scale Solar 6 (Malaysia)

Large Scale Solar 6 (LSS6) is Malaysia's sixth competitive solar bidding round, announced in 2026, offering 2,650 MW of solar capacity, half paired with battery storage.

Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program

The Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program, or Orca program, is a United States Navy effort to build extra-large autonomous submarines, built by Boeing since 2019.

Large-area single-crystal graphene growth

Large-area single-crystal graphene growth is the synthesis of boundary-free graphene films, most often by chemical vapor deposition on copper, aiming at wafer-scale films with electronic quality matching exfoliated graphene.

Large-calibre artillery

Large-caliber artillery, also known as large-caliber gun, is tube artillery with a wide bore that fires heavy explosive shells indirectly over long ranges, standardized at 155 mm in NATO and 152 mm in former-Soviet systems.

Large-format camera

A large-format camera is a camera that exposes individual film sheets larger than medium format, most commonly 4×5 and 8×10 inches, usually a bellows-equipped view camera.

Large-mode-area fiber

Large-mode-area (LMA) fiber is an optical fiber whose fundamental mode occupies a much larger effective area, raising nonlinear thresholds to let fiber lasers operate at far higher power.

Largest airlines in the world

The largest airlines in the world are ranked by passengers, capacity, fleet, or revenue; in 2024 American Airlines led in passengers and Delta in revenue.

Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions

The largest artificial non-nuclear explosions are the biggest man-made blasts from chemical explosives, both deliberate tests like Minor Scale in 1985 and accidents like Halifax in 1917 and Beirut in 2020, measured in TNT equivalent.

Largest Contentful Paint

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a web performance metric measuring the render time of the largest visible image, text block, or video in the viewport.

Largus Angenent

Largus T. Angenent, born 1969 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch environmental biotechnologist at the University of Tübingen, known for microbial electrochemistry and chain elongation.

Larnaca International Airport

Larnaca International Airport (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Λάρνακας), also known as Larnaca Airport, is Cyprus' main international gateway, opened in 1975 near the city of Larnaca.

Larry A. Coldren

Larry A. Coldren is an American engineer and professor at UC Santa Barbara known for his work on VCSELs and tunable lasers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Larry A. Roesner

Larry A. Roesner is an American civil engineer known for work on the EPA's Storm Water Management Model and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.

Larry Cohen (union leader)

Larry Cohen is an American labor leader who served as president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) from 2005 to 2015 after building its organizing programs.

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison, born Lawrence J. Ellison in 1944, is an American executive who co-founded Oracle in 1977 and was its CEO for nearly four decades.

Larry F. Pellett

Larry F. Pellett is an American aerospace engineer who led radar signature work at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Larry F. Thompson

Larry F. Thompson is an American chemical engineer who spent 26 years at Bell Labs developing lithographic resists for semiconductor manufacturing and is a National Academy of Engineering member.

Larry Hillblom

Larry Hillblom (Larry Lee Hillblom) was an American lawyer who co-founded the courier company DHL in 1969 and died in a 1995 plane crash near Saipan.

Larry L. Hench

Larry L. Hench (1938–2015) was an American ceramic engineer and materials scientist who invented Bioglass in 1969, the first man-made material shown to bond to living tissue.

Larry Page

Larry Page (born 1973) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, invented PageRank, and led Alphabet as CEO until 2019.

Larry S. Davis

Larry S. Davis is an American computer scientist who founded the University of Maryland's UMIACS and is known for computer vision and the POSIT algorithm.

Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger, born Lawrence Mark Sanger in 1968, is an American philosopher and internet developer best known as a co-founder of Wikipedia, which he named and organized.

Larry T. Nitz

Larry T. Nitz is an American automotive engineer who led development of General Motors' electrified powertrains, from the Two-Mode Hybrid through the Chevrolet Volt to the Bolt EV.

Larry Tesler

Larry Tesler (Lawrence Gordon Tesler, 1945–2020) was an American computer scientist who created the cut, copy, and paste commands at Xerox PARC and later served as Apple's chief scientist.

Larry V. McIntire

Larry V. McIntire (1943–2026) was an American bioengineer who founded Rice's bioengineering department, chaired Georgia Tech/Emory's joint program, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Lars James Blackmore

Lars James Blackmore is an aerospace engineer at SpaceX who leads Starship's entry, descent, and landing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Lars Samuelson (Swedish physicist)

Lars Samuelson (born 1948) is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus at Lund University, known for III-V nanowire epitaxy, founding NanoLund in 1988, and four nanotech start-ups.

Larsen & Toubro

Larsen & Toubro, known as L&T, is an Indian multinational engineering and construction company headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 1938 by Danish engineers Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro.

Las Américas International Airport

Las Américas International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, is the main airport serving Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, about 23 kilometers east of the city.