List of people by name, L
Subset of List of people by name
(Anonymous) to Azzopardi - Ba to Byron - C to Cyrus
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
- M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
- M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
L
La–Lao
- Laar, Mart
- Lai, Thanhha
- La Bruyère, Jean de
- Lababidi, Yahia
- La Follette Sr., Robert M.
- La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Laborit, Henri
- Lacámara, Carlos
- Lacan, Jacques
- Lackey, Mercedes
- Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de - see Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
- LaDuke, Winona
- Ladman, Cathy
- Laërtius, Diogenes
- Lafargue, Paul
- Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
- La Fayette, Madame de
- Laffer, Arthur
- Laferrière, Dany
- Lafferty, R. A.
- Lafleur, Guy
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- Lagerfeld, Karl
- Lagerlöf, Selma
- Lagos, Cristhiam
- Lagrange, Joseph Louis
- LaGrossa, Stephenie
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Laimbeer, Bill
- Laing, Ronald David
- Lakatos, Imre
- Lakoff, George
- Lalabalavu, Ratu Naiqama
- Lalami, Laila
- Lam, Wifredo
- Lamarr, Hedy
- Lamarr, Mark
- LaMarsh, Judy
- Lamb, Charles
- Lamb, George
- Lamb, Willis
- Lambert, Constant
- Lambert, Jack
- Lamborghini, Ferruccio
- Lamm, Norman
- Lamont, Johann
- Lamont, Norman
- Lamott, Anne
- LaMotta, Jake
- Lamour, Dorothy
- L'Amour, Louis
- Lampard, Frank
- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di
- Lampert, Laurence
- Lampman, Archibald
- Lanahan, John
- Land, Edwin H.
- Land, Nick
- Landau, Edmund
- Landau, Lev Davidovich
- Landis, Kenesaw Mountain
- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
- Landor, Walter Savage
- Landowska, Wanda
- Landry, Bernard
- Lane, David E.
- Lane, David C.
- Lane, Eddie
- Lane, Joseph
- Lane, Nathan
- Lane, Rose Wilder
- Lane, Shawn
- Lang, Andrew
- Lang, Jack
- Lang, Julia
- Lang, Lang
- Lang, Serge
- Lang, Will, Jr.
- Lange, Antoni
- Lange, Artie
- Lange, David
- Lange, Dorothea
- Lange, Halvard
- Lange, Joep
- Lange, Mike
- Langer, Susanne
- Langhorne, John
- Langland, William
- Langmuir, Irving
- Langton, Chris
- Lanier, Jaron
- Lanier, Sidney
- Lanne, Jack La
- Lankov, Andrei Nikolaevich
- Lansky, Paul
- Lansman, Jon
- Lantos, Tom
- Laozi (or Lao Tzu)
Lap–Laz
- Lapham, Lewis H.
- Lapin, Nicole
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon
- Laporte, Leo
- Larcom, Lucy
- Lardner, Dionysius
- Lardner, Ring
- Large, Storm
- Larijani, Ali
- Larijani, Mohammad-Javad
- Larkin, Philip
- Laroche, Hermann
- LaRouche, Lyndon
- Larroquette, John
- Larry the Cable Guy
- Larsen, Kristine
- Larsen, Nella
- Larson, Christian D.
- Larson, Jonathan
- Larsson, Henrik
- Larter, Ali
- Las Casas, Bartolomé de
- Laslett, Peter
- Lasker, Emanuel
- Lasn, Kalle
- Lasorda, Tommy
- Lassen, Teitur
- László, Ervin
- Latham, Peter Mere
- Lathrop, George Parsons
- Latifah, Queen
- Latimer, Hugh
- Laughlin, Robert B.
- Lauper, Cyndi
- Lauretis, Teresa de
- Laurie, Hugh
- Laurie, Piper
- Lautenberg, Frank
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
- LaVey, Anton
- Laviera, Tato
- Lavigne, Avril Ramona
- Lavoisier, Antoine
- Lavrov, Sergey
- Law, Andrew Bonar
- Law, Edward, 1st Baron Ellenborough
- Law, Jude
- Law, William
- Lawford-Smith, Holly
- Lawhead, Stephen R.
- Lawless, Blackie
- Lawless, Lucy
- Lawrence, Brother
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lawrence, Jacob
- Lawrence, Jennifer
- Lawrence, Martin
- Lawrence, Thomas Edward ("T. E.")
- Lawson, Henry
- Lawson, John Howard
- Lawson, Neal
- Lawson, Nigel
- Lawson, Nigella
- Laxness, Halldór
- Layamon
- Layard, Austen Henry
- Layton, Irving
- Layton, Jack
- Lazaridis, Mike
- Lazarus, Emma
Le–Leh
- Le Bailly, Louis
- le Carré, John
- Le Corbusier
- Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Leach, Bernard
- Leach, Edmund
- Leacock, Stephen
- Leakey, Richard
- Leaper, Adrian
- Lear, Edward
- Leary, Denis
- Leary, Timothy
- Leavis, F. R.
- LeBlanc, Romeo
- Lebowitz, Fran
- Lec, Stanisław Jerzy
- Leckie, Ann
- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
- Lecoin, Louis
- Lederman, Leon M.
- Ledger, Heath
- Lee, Albert
- Lee, Amy
- Lee, Ang
- Lee, Ann
- Lee, Benjamin W.
- Lee, Bobby
- Lee, Bruce
- Lee, Chang-rae
- Lee, Don (author)
- Lee, Geddy
- Lee, Gerald Stanley
- Lee, Gypsy Rose
- Lee, Harper
- Lee, Henry III
- Lee Hong-yuan
- Lee, Laurie
- Lee, Melissa
- Lee, Min Jin
- Lee, Nathaniel
- Lee, Newton
- Lee, Richard Henry
- Lee, Robert E.
- Lee, Sheila Jackson
- Lee, Sir Sidney
- Lee, Spike
- Lee, Stacey
- Lee, Stan
- Lee, Stewart
- Lee, Tanith
- Lee, Tommy
- Lee, Young Jean
- Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel
- Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
- Lees, Robert (linguist)
- Lefebvre, Henri
- Lefèvre, Edwin
- LeFevre, Robert
- Legaré, James Matthews
- Léger, Fernand
- Leggett, Anthony James
- Legoyt, Alfred
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Leguizamo, John
- Lehane, Dennis
- Lehman, John
- Lehmbruck, Wilhelm
- Lehrer, Jonah
- Lehrer, Tom
- Lehtomäki, Paula
Lei–Let
- Leiber, Fritz
- Leibniz, Gottfried
- Leibowitz, Yeshayahu
- Leiderman, Jay
- Leigh, Edward
- Leighton, Robert (bishop)
- Leighton, Robert B. (physicist)
- Leimkuhler, Ben
- Leinster, Murray
- Leiter, Brian
- Leiter, Saul
- Lejeune, C. A.
- Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Leland, John
- Lem, Stanisław
- LeMay, Curtis
- Lemon, Mark
- L'Enclos, Ninon de
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Lenin, Vladimir
- Lennon, Florence Becker
- Lennon, John
- Leno, Jay
- Lenthall, William
- Leo X (Pope)
- Leon, Daniel De
- Leon, Harmon
- Leonard, Elmore
- Leonard, John
- Leonard, Sugar Ray
- Leonardi, Vittorio
- Leonidas I
- Leontief, Wassily
- Leontyev, Mikhail
- Leopold II of Belgium
- Leopardi, Giacomo
- Leopold, Aldo
- Leopold, John R.
- Lerdorf, Rasmus
- Lermontov, Mikhail
- Lerner, Abba
- Lerner, Max
- Lernoux, Penny
- Leroy, Xavier
- Lesage, Alain-René
- Lessig, Lawrence
- Lessing, Doris
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
- LeSueur, Larry
- Leszczyński, Stanisław
- Letterman, David
Leu–Ley
- Leung Chun-ying
- Leung, Graeme
- Leung, Wong Shun
- Leupold, Jacob
- Levant, Oscar
- LeVay, Simon
- Leverson, Ada
- Levertov, Denise
- Lévesque, René
- Levi, Eliphas
- Levi, Peter
- Levi, Primo
- Levi-Montalcini, Rita
- Leviev, Lev
- Levin, Bernard
- Levin, Carl
- Levin, Ira
- Levin, Janna
- Levinas, Emmanuel
- Levine, Adam
- Levine, Jack
- Levine, Montague
- Levine, Noah
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Levitan, Isaac
- Levitch, Timothy
- Levitin, Daniel
- Levitt, Joseph Gordon
- Levitt, Theodore
- Levitzki, Mischa
- Levski, Vasil
- Levy, David
- Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
- Levy, Michael, Baron Levy
- Levy, Oscar
- Lewes, George Henry
- Lewin, Kurt
- Lewin, Peter
- Lewis, Andrea
- Lewis, Anthony
- Lewis, Alun
- Lewis, Blake
- Lewis, C. S.
- Lewis, Carl
- Lewis, Cecil Day
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Lewis, Helen (journalist)
- Lewis, H.H.
- Lewis, Hilda
- Lewis, Jenny
- Lewis, Jerry Lee
- Lewis, Joe
- Lewis, John L.
- Lewis, John (politician)
- Lewis, John (philosopher)
- Lewis, Joseph
- Lewis, Lennox
- Lewis, Leona
- Lewis, Matthew
- Lewis , Michael
- Lewis, Ray (American football)
- Lewis, Roger
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lewis, Wyndham
- LeWitt, Sol
- Lewontin, Richard
- Ley, Robert
Lh-Li
- Lhévinne, Josef
- Li Bai
- Li Yundi
- Liang, Zhuge
- Lichtenauer, Johannes
- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- Licklider, J. C. R.
- Liddell, Henry George
- Liddle, Rod
- Liddon, Henry Parry
- Liddy, G. Gordon
- Lie, Håkon Wium
- Lieberman, Avigdor
- Lieberman, Joe
- Liebig, Justus von
- Liebling, A. J.
- Liebman, Wendy
- Lien Fang Yu
- Lifshitz, Evgeny
- Ligeti, György
- Liggett, Phil
- Lightfoot, Gordon
- Lightman, Alan
- Lightoller, Charles
- Ligne, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince
- Ligotti, Thomas
- Likert, Rensis
- Lilienthal, Otto
- Lilly, John C.
- Lily, Miss Shangay
- Limbaugh, Rush
- Limón, Graciela
- Lin, David
- Lin-Chi
- Lin Chu-chia
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lindbeck, Assar
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Lindemann, Till
- Lindley, Dennis
- Lindley, Nathaniel, Baron Lindley
- Lindo, Elias Hiam
- Lindsay, Jenny
- Lindsay, Norman
- Lindsay, Ted
- Ling, Lisa
- Lingpa, Jikmé
- Linji Yixuan
- Linkola, Pentti
- Linley, George
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Lins, Paulo
- Lint, Charles de
- Linz, Alex D.
- Linzey, Andrew
- Lion, Alfred
- Liotta, Ray
- Lipchitz, Jacques
- Lipman, Maureen
- Lippard, George
- Lippmann, Walter
- Lipscomb, David
- Lipstadt, Deborah
- Lipton, Thomas
- Lipumba, Ibrahim
- Lisitsa, Valentina
- Lispector, Clarice
- Lissitsky, El
- List, Friedrich
- Lister, Moira
- Liszt, Franz
- Littell, Eliakim
- Little Raven (Arapaho leader)
- Littlewood, John Edensor
- Liu Chuanzhi
- Liu Cixin
- Liu, Lucy
- Liu, Marjorie
- Livingstone, David
- Livingstone, Ken
- Livni, Tzipi
- Livy
- Lizhi, Fang
Ll–Lo
- Llidó, Antonio
- Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Lloyd, Harold
- Lloyd, Robert (poet)
- Lloyd, Seth
- Llull, Ramon
- Lo, Malinda
- Lo, Patrick
- Loach, Ken
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich
- Lobão
- Locke, John
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick
- Lockhart, John Gibson
- Lockhart, Keith
- Lodge, David
- Lodge, Henry Cabot
- Lodge, Thomas
- Loesser, Frank
- Loewen, James W.
- Loewy, Raymond
- Loftus, Elizabeth
- Logan, Jared
- Logan, John
- Logau, Friedrich von
- Logue, Christopher
- Lohan, Lindsay
- Lohman, Alison
- Loken, Kristanna
- Lom, Herbert
- Lombard, Carole
- Lombardi, Vince
- Lombroso, Cesare
- London, Fritz
- London, Jack
- London, Jay
- Long, Barry
- Long, Camilla
- Long, Earl
- Long, George (scholar)
- Long, Huey
- Long, Richard
- Long, Roderick
- Long, Shelley
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Longfellow, Samuel
- Longinus
- Longoria, Eva
- Longstreet, James
- Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
- Looney, William R., III
- Loong, Lee Hsien
- Loos, Adolf
- Loos, Anita
- Lope de Vega
- Lopes, José Leite
- Lopez, Barry
- Lopez, George (comedian)
- Lopez, Jennifer
- Lopez, Josefina
- Lopez, Matthew (playwright)
- Lopez, Melinda
- Lopokova, Lydia
- Lorca, Federico García
- Lord, William Paine
- Lorde
- Lorde, Audre
- Lore, Nicholas
- Loren, Sophia
- Lorenz, Alfred
- Lorenz, Konrad
- Lorenzi, Giovanni Battista
- Lorimer, George C.
- Lorre, Chuck
- Lott, Trent
- Lottini, Giovanni Francesco
- Loudon, Trevor
- Lougheed, Peter
- Loughner, Jared Lee
- Louis IX of France
- Louis VII, King of France
- Louis XIV of France
- Louis, Édouard
- Louis, Joe
- Lovato, Demi
- Love, Courtney
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Lovejoy, Owen
- Lovelace, Ada
- Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Lovelace, Richard
- Lovelock, James
- Lover, Samuel
- Lovins, Amory
- Low, David
- Low, Frank J.
- Lowe, Nick
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowell, Percival
- Lowell, Robert
- Lowery, Joseph
- Löwith, Karl
- Lown, Bernard
- Lowry, Lois
- Lowry, Malcolm
- Löwy, Michael
Lu–Ly
- Lu, Annette
- Lu Xun
- Lubac, Henri de
- Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
- Lucado, Max
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
- Lucas Jr., Robert
- Lucas, George
- Lucas, Josh
- Lucashenko, Melissa
- Luccock, Halford E.
- Luce, Clare Boothe
- Lucian
- Lucie-Smith, Edward
- Luckhurst, Tim
- Lucretius
- Ludacris
- Ludendorff, Erich
- Ludwig, Arnold M.
- Ludwig, Emil
- Luhmann, Niklas
- Lukács, György
- Lukashenko, Alexander
- Lukianoff, Greg
- Lukofsky, Marla
- Lukyanenko, Sergei
- Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
- Lulu (singer)
- Lumumba, Patrice
- Lung Ying-tai
- Lunn, Arnold
- Lupescu, Valya Dudycz
- Lurie, Alison
- Lusha, Masiela
- Lustiger, Jean-Marie Cardinal
- Luther, Martin
- Lutuli, Albert
- Lutyens, Edwin
- Lutz, Robert
- Lutze, Viktor
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Lyacos, Dimitris
- Lyadov, Anatoly
- Lycurgus
- Lydgate, John
- Lydon, John
- Lydon, Michael
- Lyly, John
- Lynch, David
- Lynch, Jessica
- Lynd, Robert Wilson
- Lyndsay, David
- Lynes, Russell
- Lynn, Loretta
- Lyell, Charles
- Lynch, Scott
- Lynne, Jeff
- Lyonne, Natasha
- Lyons, Daniel
- Lyons, Steve
- Lyot, Bernard
- Lyotard, Jean-François
- Łysiak, Waldemar
- Lyte, Henry Francis
- Lythgoe, Nigel
- Lyttelton, George, 1st Baron
- Lyttelton, Humphrey
- Lytton, Lady Constance
- Lytton, Louisa