# List of people by name, L

Subset of List of people by name

## 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