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L - 239 biographies |
La Badie, Florence - (1888-1917), actor
la Fayette, Marquis de - (1757-1834)
La Fontaine, Henri - Nobel Peace Prize 1913
La Fontaine, Jean de - (1621-1695), fablist
La Perouse, Jean Francois - (1741-1788), French explorer of the Pacific
Labe, Louise - (c. 1525-1566), poet
Labov, William - (born 1927), linguist
Labrouste, Henri - (1801-1875), architect
LaBute, Neil - Bash, The Shape of Things
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de - (1713-1762), astronomer
Lacan, Jacques - (1901-1981), psychologist
Lachenal, Adrien - (1849-1918), Swiss president
Lachenmann, Helmut - (born 1935), composer
Lachmann, Karl - (born 1793)
Lachmann, Ludwig - (1906-1990), economist
Laciar, Santos - (born 1959), flyweight boxer, world champion
Lackey, Mercedes - (born 1950), US fantasy author
Laclos, Choderlos de - (1741-1803), French novelist
Lacombe, Georges - (1868-1916), French painter, sculptor
Lacoste, Rene - France
Lacy, Steve - soprano saxophonist
Ladd, Alan - (1913-1964), actor
Ladd, Diane - (born 1932), actress
Ladislaus I - king
Ladislaus II - (1471-1516), Bohemian aristocrat
Ladislaus II of Poland - (c.1350-1434), [King 1386-1434)
Ladislaus III of Poland - (1434-1444), Polish ruler
Ladislaus IV of Poland - (1632-1648), Polish ruler
Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary - (1453-1457), Bohemian aristocrat
Ladnier, Tommy - (1900-1939), trumpeter
LaDuke, Winona - political activist
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy - historian
Laemmle, Carl - (1867-1939), film producer
Laennec, Rene Theophile Hyacinthe - (1781-1826), physician, inventor of stethoscope
Lafargue, Paul - (1841-1911), Cuban-French Communist
Lafferty, R. A. - (1914-2002), US science fiction writer
Lafforgue, Laurent - mathematician
Lafleur, Guy - (born 1951), National Hockey League star
Lafontaine, Louis-Hippolyte - (1807-1864)
LaFree, Gary - professor of criminology and criminal justice
Lagasse, Emeril - (born 1959), Chef
Lagerfeld, Karl - (born 1938), fashion designer
Lagerkvist, Par - (1891-1974), Swedish writer
Lagerlof, Selma - (1858-1940), Swedish writer
Lagos, Ricardo - Chilean president
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis - (1736-1813), physicist
LaGuardia, Fiorello H. - (1882-1947)
Laguerre, Enrique A. - (born 1906) Puerto Rican writer
Lah, Ivo - (1896-1979), mathematician, discoverer of Lah numbers
Lahoti, Ramesh Chandra - Chief Justice of India (born 1940)
Lahr, Bert - (1895-1967), actor
Lahti, Christine - (born 1950), US actress of Finnish ancestry
Lai, Leon - (born 1966)
Laine, Papa Jack - (1873-1966), New Orleans drummer and bandleader
Laing, R. D. - (1927-1989), psychiatrist
Laird, Melvin R. - (fl. last half 20th century), American Secretary of Defense
Lakatos, Imre - (1922-1974), philosopher
Lake, Greg - (born 1948), musician
Lake, Ricki - (born 1968), US actress and talk show hostess
Lake, Veronica - (1919-1973), actress
LaLanne, Jack - (born 1914), American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
Lalique, Rene - (1860-1945), artist
Lam, Ringo - film director
Lam, Wilfredo - (1902-1982), painter
Lamacq, Steve - (born 1965), journalist and BBC radio DJ
Lamantia, Philip - poet
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus - (died 1893), the only United States Supreme Court justice from Mississippi
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste - (1744-1829), scientist
Lamarr, Hedy - (1913-2000), Austrian-born actress
Lamartine, Alphonse de - poet
Lamas, Fernando - (1915-1982), actor
Lamas, Lorenzo - (born 1958), actor
Lamb, Charles - (1775-1834), poet
Lamb, Joseph - (1887-1960), ragtime composer
Lamb, Lady Caroline - (1785-1828), author
Lamb, Sidney - (born 1929), linguist
Lamb, William - (1779-1848), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lambert, Christophe - (born 1957), actor
Lambert, Johann Heinrich - (1728-1777), astronomer, mathematician
Lambton, John George, Earl of Durham - (1792-1840), UK statesman
Lamott, Anne - US novelist
LaMotta, Jake - (born 1921), world champion boxer
Lamour, Dorothy - (1914-1996), US actress
LAmour, Louis - (1908-1988), US western writer
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di - (1896-1957), The Leopard
Lampley, Jim - (born 1952) American sportscaster
Lampson, Miles - British ambassador
Lancaster, Burt - (1913-1994), US actor and acrobat
Lanchester, Elsa - (1902-1986), actress
Lanchester, Frederick - (1868-1946), engineer
Land, Edwin H. - (1909-1991), Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Land, Michael - (born 1961), American video game composer
Landau, Lev Davidovich - (1908-1968), Russian physicist
Landau, Martin - (born 1931), actor
Lander, Tim - Canadian writer
Landers, Ann - (1918-2002), US advice columnist, also known as Ann Landers
Landini, Francesco - (1325-1397), composer
Landis, Geoffrey - US author
Landis, John - (born 1950), US film director
Lando, Pope - (913-914)
Landon, Alfred M. - (1887-1987), Governor, Presidential Candidate, Topeka, Kansas.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth - poet
Landon, Michael - (1936-1991), US actor
Landor, Walter Savage - (1775-1864), poet
Landrieu, Mary - (born 1955), United States senator
Landrieu, Moon - (born 1930), New Orleans mayor
Landry, Tom - (1924-2000), US football coach
Landsbergis, Vytautas - Lithuanian president
Landsteiner, Karl - (1868-1943)
Lane, Charles - (born 1905), actor
Lane, Diane - (born 1965), actress
Lane, Eastwood - (1879-1951), US composer
Lane, Mills - judge and boxing referee
Lane, Nathan - (born 1956), comedian
Lane, Patrick - Canadian writer
Lanfranc - (died 1089), Archbishop of Canterbury
Lang, Andrew - (1844-1912), US basketball player
Lang, Cosmo Gordon - (1864-1945), Archbishop of Canterbury
Lang, Eddie - (1902-1933), US jazz guitarist
Lang, Fritz - (1890-1976), German film director
Lang, Jonny - (born 1981), musician
Lang, K.D. - (born 1961), Canadian musician
Langdon, John - (1741-1819), Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator
Lange, Christian Lous - (1869-1938), internationalist
Lange, Dorothea - (1895-1965), photographer
Lange, Hope - (born 1931), actress
Lange, Jessica - (born 1949), US actor
Lange, Robert Mutt - (born 1948), record producer
Langen, Ellen van - (born 1966), athlete
Langer, Bernhard - golfer
Langer, William - US politician
Langham, Simon - (died 1376), Archbishop of Canterbury
Langlands, Robert - (born 1936), mathematician
Langley, Samuel Pierpont - USA astronomer, physicist
Langmuir, Irving - (1851-1957), chemist, physicist
Langtoft, Piers - historian
Langton, Stephen - (c 1150-1228), scholastic philosopher, Archbishop of Canterbury
Langton, Thomas - Archbishop of Canterbury
Langtry, Lillie - (born 1853), actress
Languet, Hubert - (died 1581), French diplomat
Langworthy, Edward - (1738-1802), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Georgia
Lannin, Joseph - US baseball team owner
Lanois, Daniel - composer, produced U2 albums
Lansbury, Angela - (born 1925), US actress
Lansbury, George - (1859-1940), politician
Lansing, Robert - (1864-1928), Secretary of State
Lantz, Walter - (1900-1994), cartoonist ("Woody Woodpecker")
Lanza, Mario - (died 1959), singer
Lanzoni, Fabio - male model
Lao She - (1899-1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
Lao Tzu - philosopher
LaPiere, Cherilyn Sarkisian - (born 1946), US singer Cher, wife of Sonny Bono
LaPierre, Laurier L. - Canadian senator
Laplace, Pierre-Simon - (1749-1827), French mathematician and astronomer
Laporte, Juan - featherweight boxer, world champion
Lapsley, John H. - pilot
Laracuente, Belinda - (born 1980), woman boxer world champion
Lardner, Ring, Jr. - (1915-2000), American screenwriter
Larkin, Philip - (1922-1985), poet
LaRocca, Nick - (1889-1961), jazz musician
Laromiguiere, Pierre - (1756-1837), philosopher
Larsen, Bent - chess player
Larsen, Nella - (1891-1964), novelist
Larson, Gary - (born 1950), US The Far Side cartoonist
Larson, Glen A. - US author
Larsson, Carl - (1859-1928), painter
Lasansky, Mauricio - (born 1914), modern artist
Lascaris, Constantine - (died 1493)
Lascelles, George , 7th Earl of Harewood - aristocrat
Lascelles, Sophie - aristocrat
Lasker, Emanuel - (USA, 1868-1941), chess player
Lasorda, Tommy - (born 1927), baseball manager
Lassalle, Ferdinand - (1825-1864), politician
Lassell, William - (1799-1880), astronomer
Lassus, Orlande de - (ca. 1532-1594), (Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso)
Laswell, Bill - (born 1950), musician and producer
Laud, William - (1573-1645), Archbishop of Canterbury
Lauda, Niki - (born 1949), French race car driver
Laudrup, Brian - Danish athlete
Laudrup, Michael - Danish athlete
Laughton, Charles - (1899-1962), US actor
Laumer, Keith - (1925-1993), US science fiction author
Lauper, Cyndi - (born 1953), US singer
Lauren, Ralph - (born 1939), fashion designer
Laurence of Canterbury - (died 619), Archbishop of Canterbury
Laurence, Margaret - (1926-1987), novelist, wrote "The Stone Angel"
Laurens, Henri - (1885-1954), sculptor
Laurens, Henry - (1724-1792), South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress
Laurens, John - (1754-1782), American soldier and statesman in Revolutionary War
Laurents, Arthur - (born 1918), playwright, novelist, and director
Laurie, Hugh - (born 1959), British comedian
Laurie, Piper - (born 1932), actress
Laurier, Wilfrid - (1896-1911), Canadian prime minister
Lautaro - (1535-1557) Inca leader
Lautenberg, Frank - US politician
Lautreamont, Comte de - (1846-1870), poet
Laval, Pierre - (died 1945), French politician of Vichy regime
Lavallee, Calixa - (died 1891), composer
Lavater, Johann Kaspar - (1741-1801), philosopher
Laveau, Marie - (1794?-1881?), Voodoo Queen
Lavender, David - (1910-2003), Western US writer and historian
Lavigne, Avril - (born 1984), US singer/songwriter
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent - (1743-1794), French pioneer chemist
Lavrentyev, Mikhail - (born 1900), Russian scientist
Law, Andrew Bonar - (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
Law, John - (1671-1729)
Law, Jude - (born 1972), actor
Law, Oliver - (1899-1937), African American officer
Law, Rick - (born 1969), illustrator, producer
Lawford, Peter - (1923-1984), actor
Lawhead, Stephen R. - US writer of historical fiction
Lawless, Lucy - (born 1968), New Zealand actress
Lawrence of Arabia - (born 1888)
Lawrence, D.H. - (1885-1930), British author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando - inventor of cyclotron
Lawrence, Florence - (died 1890), actor
Lawrence, Gertrude - (died 1952), actress
Lawrence, Jacob - (1917-c.2000), painter
Lawrence, Joey - (born 1976), actor
Lawrence, Martin - actor, comedian, producer
Lawrence, Steve - (born 1935), entertainer, singer
Lawrence, Wendy - astronaut
Lawrie, Lee - (1877-1962)
Lawson, Alfred - (1869-1954), ball player, aviator, economist, "kook"
Lawson, Edward M. - Canadian senator
Lawson, Henry - prose and poetry
Lawson, Nigel - (born 1932), politician
Lawson, Nigella - (born 1960), celebrity chef, writer
Lawton, Tommy - (1919-1996), English association footballer
Laxness, Halldor - (1903-1998), Icelander novelist
Layamon - poet
Layton, Irving - (born 1912), poet
Lazarus, Emma - (born 1849), poet
Lazenby, George - (born 1939), actor
Lazzeri, Tony - (1903-1946), Baseball Hall of Famer
Lewis, Sinclair - (1885-1951), Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Main Street
Luis Cabral - (born 1965), Portuguese Protestant evangelist
Luis Cabral - President of Guinea-Bissau (1975-1980)
Luis Ramon Campas - (born 1971), Mexican world champion boxer
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