List of people by name, L

Subset of List of people by name

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, 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
 * 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, 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