| Labadie, Jean de (French religious reformer) |
1610-1674 |
| Laban, Rudolf (Hung. choreographer, dance theorist, teacher) |
1879-1958 |
| Labarnas I (also Labernash) (Hittite king c.1680-c.1650) |
d.c.1650 BC |
| La Barre, Raoul Weston (American anthropologist, ethnologist) |
1911-1996 |
| Labat, Jean-Baptiste (French Dominican missionary) |
1663-1738 |
| Labe, Louise née Charly (la Belle Cordiere) (French poet) |
c.1524-1566 |
| Labeo, Marcus Antistis (Roman jurist) |
d. AD 10/11 |
| Laberius, Decimus (Roman knight, writer) |
c.115-43 BC |
| Labiche, Eugene-Marin (French playwright) |
1815-1888 |
| Lanienus, Quintus (Roman army commander; son of Titus) |
d.39 BC |
| Labienus, Titus (Roman politician) |
d.45 BC |
| Lablache, Luigi (Italian singer) |
1794-1858 |
| La Boetie, Etienne de (French writer) |
1530-1563 |
| Labori, Fernand-Gustave-Gaston (French lawyer) |
1860-1917 |
| Labouchere, Henry Du Pre "Labby" (Eng. journalist, politician) |
1831-1912 |
| Laboulaye, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de (French journalist, polit.) |
1811-1883 |
| La Bourdonnais, Bertrand-Francois Mahe de (Fr. naval officer) |
1699-1753 |
| La Bourdonnais, Louis-Charles Mahe de (French chess master) |
1797-1840 |
| Labriola, Antonio (Italian philosopher) |
1843-1904 |
| Labrouste, Pierre-Francois-Henri (French architect) |
1801-1875 |
| Labrunie, Gerard (pseud. Gerard de Nerval) (French writer) |
1808-1855 |
| La Bruyere, Jean de (French moralist) |
1645-1696 |
| Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis de (French astronomer) |
1713-1762 |
| La Calprenede, Gautier de Costes de (Fr. novelist, playwright) |
c.1610-1663 |
| Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile (French psychoanalyst) |
1901-1981 |
| Lacepede, Bernard-Germain-Etienne Delaville de (Fr. politician) |
1756-1825 |
| Lachaise, Gaston (French-born American sculptor) |
1882-1935 |
| La Chaise, Pere Francois d'Aix de (Fr. confessor to Louis XIV) |
1624-1709 |
| La Chalotais, Louis-Rene de Caradeuc de (French magistrate) |
1701-1785 |
| La Chaussee, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de (French playwright) |
1692-1754 |
| Laches (Athenian general) |
c.475-418 BC |
| Lachmann, Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm (German philologist) |
1793-1851 |
| Lachner, Franz Paul (German musician, composer) |
1803-1890 |
| Lachner, Ignaz (German composer; brother of Franz) |
1807-1895 |
| Lachner, Vincenz (German composer; brother of Franz) |
1811-1893 |
| Lacks, Henrietta née Pleasant (Am. homemaker: HeLa cell line) |
1920-1951 |
| Laclede, Pierre (French fur trader, pioneer in America) |
1724-1778 |
| Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de (French soldier) |
1741-1803 |
| Lacombe,Louis Trouillon (French pianist, composer) |
1818-1884 |
| La Condamine, Charles-Marie de (Fr. naturalist, mathematician) |
1701-1774 |
| La Conte, Ellen (American teacher, homesteader, writer) |
b.1946 |
| Lacordaire, Jean-Baptiste-Henri (French prelate) |
1802-1861 |
| Lacretelle, Jacques de (French writer, journalist) |
1888-1985 |
| Lacretelle, Jean-Charles-Dominique "le Jeune" (Fr. journalist) |
1766-1855 |
| Lacretelle, Pierre-Louis de (French journalist, magistrate) |
1751-1824 |
| Lacroix, Francois-Antoine-Alfred (French mineralogist) |
1863-1948 |
| Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Christian writer) |
c.240-320 |
| Lacy, Francis Maurice (Irish soldier in Austrian service) |
1725-1801 |
| Lacy, Henry de (3rd Earl of Lincoln) (English soldier) |
1249?-1311 |
| Lacy, Hugh de (5th Baron Lacy; 1st Lord of Meath)(Eng. soldier) |
d.1186 |
| Lacy, Peter (Count Lacy) (Irish soldier) |
1678-1751 |
| Lacy, Steve (b. Steven Morman Lackritz) (Am. musician, teacher) |
1934-2004 |
| Lacydes of Cyrene (Greek philosopher) |
d.206/205 BC |
| Ladd, George Trumbull (American psychologist, philosopher) |
1842-1921 |
| Ladd, William (Am. pacifist; fd. American Peace Society 1828) |
1778-1841 |
| Ladd-Franklin, Christine (American psychologist, logician) |
1847-1930 |
| Ladipo, Duro (Nigerian dramatist) |
1931-1978 |
| Ladislas (King of Naples 1386-1414 and of Hungary 1390-1414) |
1377-1414 |
| Laelius, Gaius (Roman general, politician) |
d.160? BC |
| Laemmle, Carl (German-born American motion-picture producer) |
1867-1939 |
| Laennec, Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe (French physician) |
1781-1826 |
| Laer, Pieter van "Il Bamboccio" (Dutch painter) |
1595-1642 |
| La Farge, John (American artist; grandfather of Oliver) |
1835-1910 |
| La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (American author, anthropologist) |
1901-1963 |
| Lafargue, Paul (French Socialist politician, writer) |
1842-1911 |
| La Farina, Giuseppe (Italian revolutionary, historian) |
1815-1863 |
| Lafayette, Marie-Joseph du Motier de (Fr. statesman, officer) |
1757-1834 |
| La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine de (French novelist) |
1634-1693 |
| La Fayette, Gilbert Motier de (French soldier) |
c.1380-1462 |
| Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius (American writer) |
b.1914 |
| Laffite (or Lafitte), Jean (French pirate in America) |
c.1780-c.1826 |
| Laffitte, Jacques (French financier, politician) |
1767-1844 |
| Laffitte, Pierre (French philosopher) |
1823-1903 |
| Lafitau, Joseph-Francois (French missionary) |
1670-1740 |
| La Flesche, Francis (American ethnologist) |
1857-1932 |
| La Flesche, Susette (Indian name Inshta Theumba) (Am. reformer) |
1854-1903 |
| La Follette, Robert Marion (American politician) |
1855-1925 |
| La Fontaine, Henri-Marie (Belgian lawyer, politician) |
1854-1943 |
| La Fontaine, Jean de (French poet) |
1621-1695 |
| Lafontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte (Canadian politician) |
1807-1864 |
| LaFontaine (or La Fontaine), Mlle. (French dancer) |
1655-1738 |
| Laforet Diaz, Carmen (Spanish writer) |
b.1921 |
| La Forge, Louis de (French philosopher) |
d.1666? |
| Laforgue, Jules (French poet) |
1860-1887 |
| Lafosse, Charles de (French painter) |
1636-1716 |
| La Fresnaye, Roger de (French painter) |
1885-1925 |
| Lagerkvist, Par Fabian (Swedish novelist, playwright, poet) |
1891-1974 |
| Lagerlof, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa (Swedish novelist, poet) |
1858-1940 |
| La Grange, Charles Varlet de (French actor) |
1639?-1692 |
| Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (Italian-born French mathematician) |
1736-1813 |
| Lagrange, Marie-Joseph (French biblical scholar) |
1855-1938 |
| La Guardia, Fiorello Henry (the Little Flower) (Am. politician) |
1882-1947 |
| Laguerre, Edmond Nicolas (French mathematician, geometer) |
1834-1886 |
| La Guma, Justin Alexander "Alex" (South African writer) |
1925-1985 |
| La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar de (Swiss politician) |
1754-1838 |
| La Harpe (or Laharpe), Jean-Francois de (French playwright) |
1739-1803 |
| LaHaye, Beverly Jean née Ratcliffe (American writer, activist) |
b.1926 |
| Lahaye, Louis-Marie de (French lawyer, political writer) |
1788-1868 |
| Lahbabi, Mohammed Aziz (Moroccan writer, poet, philosopher) |
1922-1993 |
| La Hire (or La Hyre), Laurent de (French painter) |
1606-1656 |
| La Hire, Phillipe (French geometer) |
1640-1719 |
| La Hontan, Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de (French officer) |
1666-1715 |
| Lahr, Bert (orig. Irving Lahrheim) (American comedian) |
1895-1967 |
| Laidlaw, Sir Patrick Playfair (English pathologist) |
1881-1940 |
| Laidoner, Johan (Estonian soldier) |
1884-1952? |
| Laing, Alexander Gordon (Scottish explorer in Africa) |
1793-1826 |
| Laing, Malcolm (Scottish historian) |
1762-1818 |
| Laing, Ronald David (British psychiatrist) |
1927-1989 |
| Laird, Macgregor (Scottish merchant, explorer) |
1808-1861 |
| Lajoie, Napoleon "Larry" (American baseball player) |
1875-1959 |
| Lajpat Rai, Lala (Indian writer, politician) |
1865-1928 |
| Lakanal, Joseph (orig. Lacanal) (French educator, politician) |
1762-1845 |
| Lake, Gerard (1st Viscount Lake) (English general) |
1744-1808 |
| Lake, John (English prelate) |
1624-1689 |
| Lake, Kirsopp (English biblical scholar) |
1872-1946 |
| Lake, Simon (American naval architect) |
1866-1945 |
| Lakshmi Bai (Indian queen) |
d.1858 |
| Lalande, Joseph-Jerome Le Francais de (French astronomer) |
1732-1807 |
| Lalande, Michel-Richard de (French composer) |
1657-1726 |
| Lalique, Rene (French jeweler, glassmaker) |
1860-1945 |
| Lally, Thomas-Arthur de (Comte de Lally) (French soldier) |
1702-1766 |
| Lalo, Edouard-Victor-Antoine (French composer) |
1823-1892 |
| Lalor, Peter (Irish-born Australian engineer, politician) |
1827-1889 |
| Laloubere, Antoine de (French mathematician) |
1600-1664 |
| Lamachus (Athenian general) |
d.414 BC |
| Lamar, Hedy (Austrian-born American actor, inventor) |
1913-2000 |
| Lamar, Joseph Rucker (American jurist) |
1857-1916 |
| Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte (American politician) |
1798-1859 |
| La Marche, Olivier de (French chronicler, poet) |
c.1425-1502 |
| Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre de Monet de (French naturalist) |
1744-1829 |
| La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero (Italian soldier, politician) |
1804-1878 |
| Lamarque, Maximilien (French general) |
1770-1832 |
| Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de (French poet) |
1790-1869 |
| Lamb, Lady Caroline née Ponsonby (English novelist) |
1785-1828 |
| Lamb, Charles (French essayist, critic, letter writer) |
1775-1834 |
| Lamb, Sir Horace (British mathematician, physicist) |
1849-1934 |
| Lamb, Mary Ann (English writer; sister of Charles) |
1764-1847 |
| Lamb, William (2nd Viscount Melbourne) (English politician) |
1779-1848 |
| Lamb, Willis Eugene (American physicist) |
b.1913 |
| Lamballe, Marie-Therese-Louise de (French noblewoman) |
1749-1792 |
| Lambart, Frederic Rudolph (10th Earl of Cavan) (Brit. soldier) |
1865-1946 |
| Lambeau, Earl Louis "Curly" (American football coach) |
1898-1965 |
| Lambermont, August (Belgian politician) |
1819-1905 |
| Lambert of Spoleto (Holy Roman emperor 892-898) |
d.898 |
| Lambert, Daniel (English fat man) |
1770-1809 |
| Lambert, Francois (Lambert of Avignon) (French theologian) |
1486-1530 |
| Lambert, Johann Heinrich (German physicist, math., astronomer) |
1728-1777 |
| Lambert, John (English general) |
1619-1683 |
| Lambert, Leonard Constant (English composer) |
1905-1951 |
| Lambert von Hersfeld (German historian) |
1025-1088 |
| Lambrecht, Karl T. (German-born American optical engineer) |
1903-2001 |
| Lambroso, Cesare (Italian physician, criminologist) |
1836-1909 |
| Lambton, John George (1st Earl of Durham) (English politician) |
1792-1840 |
| Lame, Gabriel (French mathematician, engineer) |
1795-1870 |
| Lamennais, Hughes-Felicite-Robert de (Fr. priest, philosopher) |
1782-1854 |
| Lamennais, Jean-Marie-Robert (Fr. reformer; brother of Hughes) |
1780-1860 |
| Lamerie, Paul de (Dutch-born English silversmith) |
1688-1751 |
| Lameth, Alexandre-Theodore-Victor (French soldier, politician) |
1760-1829 |
| La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de (French physician, philosopher) |
1709-1751 |
| Lammasch, Heinrich (Austrian jurist, politician) |
1853-1920 |
| Lamming, George William (Barbadian writer, social commentator) |
b.1927 |
| Lamoignon, Guillaume de (French lawyer, politician) |
1617-1677 |
| Lamoignon, Guillaume de (Fr. politician; nephew of Guillaume) |
1683-1772 |
| Lamoignon, Nicolas de (French lawyer; son of Guillaume) |
1648-1724 |
| Lamont, Johann von (Scottish-born German astronomer) |
1805-1879 |
| Lamontagne-Beauregard, Blanche (French-Canadian poet) |
1889-1958 |
| Lamoriciere, Christophe-Louis-Leon Juchault de (French general) |
1806-1865 |
| La Mothe, Antoine Laumet de (French soldier, colonialist) |
1658-1730 |
| La Mothe Le Vayer, Francois de (French philosopher) |
1588-1672 |
| La Motte, Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de (French adventurer) |
1754-1831 |
| L'Amour, Louis (b. Louis Dearborn LaMoore) (American writer) |
1908-1988 |
| Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of (Sicilian aristocrat) |
1896-1957 |
| Lampman, Archibald (Canadian poet, civil servant) |
1861-1899 |
| Lamprecht, Karl Gottfried (German historian) |
1856-1915 |
| Lamprecht der Pfaffe (Frankish poet) |
fl. 1120-1130 |
| Lamy, Bernard (French ecclesiastic, scholar) |
1640-1715 |
| Lamy, John Baptist (orig. Jean-Baptiste) (Fr.-born Am. prelate) |
1814-1888 |
| Lancaster, Sir John (Eng. navig., pioneer of East Indian trade) |
c.1554-1618 |
| Lancaster, Joseph (English educationist) |
1778-1838 |
| Lancelot, Claude (French priest, educator) |
1615?-1695 |
| Lanchester, Frederick William (English engineer) |
1868-1946 |
| Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo (Italian archaeologist) |
1847-1929 |
| Lancisi, Giovanni Maria (It. physician, clinician, botanist) |
1654-1720 |
| Lancret, Nicolas (French painter) |
1690-1743 |
| Land, Edwin Herbert (American photo. industrialist, inventor) |
1909-1991 |
| Landau, Ezekiel (Polish rabbi) |
1713-1793 |
| Landau, Lev Davidovich (Soviet physicist) |
1908-1968 |
| Landau, Mark Aleksandrovich (pseud. M.A. Aldanov) (Rus. writer) |
1886-1957 |
| Landells, Ebenezer (English wood engraver) |
1808-1860 |
| Landen, John (English mathematician) |
1719-1790 |
| Lander, Harald (Danish dancer, choreographer) |
1905-1971 |
| Lander, John (English explorer with brother Richard) |
1807-1839 |
| Lander, Richard Lemon (English explorer in Africa) |
1804-1834 |
| Landers, Ann (Esther P. Friedman) (American advice columnist) |
b.1918 |
| Landini (or Landino), Francesco (Florentine musician, composer) |
c.1325-1397 |
| Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (Am. jurist, baseball commissioner) |
1866-1944 |
| Lando (Landis) (Pope 913-914) |
d.914 |
| Landolfi, Tommaso (Italian essayist, translator, playwright) |
1908-1979 |
| Landon, Alfred Mossman "Alf" (American politician) |
1887-1987 |
| Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseud. L.E.L.) (Eng. poet, novelist) |
1802-1838 |
| Landor, Walter Savage (English poet, literary critic, writer) |
1775-1864 |
| Landowska, Wanda Louise (Polish harpsichordist) |
1879-1959 |
| Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (English painter) |
1802-1873 |
| Landstad, Magnus Brostrup (Norwegian pastor, poet) |
1802-1880 |
| Landsteiner, Karl (Austrian-born Am. immunologist, pathologist) |
1868-1943 |
| Landulph of Carcano (Italian prelate) |
d.998 |
| Lane, Alfred Church (American geologist) |
1863-1948 |
| Lane, Sir Allen (English publisher; founded Penguin Books 1935) |
1902-1970 |
| Lane, Edward William (English Orientalist) |
1801-1876 |
| Lane, Sir Hugh Percy (Irish art dealer) |
1875-1915 |
| Lane, James Heney (American soldier, politician) |
1814-1866 |
| Lane, John (American blacksmith; invented first steel plow) |
19th cent. |
| Lane, John (American plow manufacturer; son of John) |
1824-1897 |
| Lane, John (English publisher) |
1854-1925 |
| Lane, Jonathan Home (American physicist) |
1819-1880 |
| Lane, Joseph Lane (American soldier, politician) |
1801-1881 |
| Lane, Sir Ralph (English colonist in Virginia) |
1530?-1603 |
| Lane, Saunders Mac (American mathematician) |
1909-2005 |
| Lanfranc (Italian Benedictine prelate in England) |
1005?-1089 |
| Lanfranco, Giovanni (Italian painter) |
1582-1647 |
| Lang, Alexander Matheson (Canadian-born British actor) |
1879-1948 |
| Lang, Andrew (Scottish scholar, man of letters) |
1844-1912 |
| Lang, Fritz (Austrian-born American film director) |
1890-1976 |
| Lang, John Dunmore (Scottish-born Australian ecclesiastic) |
1799-1878 |
| Lang, John Thomas "Jack" (Australian politician) |
1876-1975 |
| Lang, Matthaus (German ecclesiastic, politician) |
1468-1540 |
| Lang, William Cosmo Gordon (Scottish-born British prelate) |
1864-1945 |
| Langdell, Christopher Columbus (American lawyer, educator) |
1826-1906 |
| Langdon, Harry Philmore (American actor) |
1884-1944 |
| Langdon, John (American Revolutionary leader) |
1741-1819 |
| Langdon, Samuel (American clergyman) |
1723-1797 |
| Lange, Antoni (Polish poet, literary critic, translator) |
1861-1929 |
| Lange, Carl Georg (Danish physician, psychologist) |
1834-1900 |
| Lange, Christian Louis (Norwegian pacifist, historian) |
1869-1938 |
| Lange, David Russell (New Zealand prime minister 1984-1989) |
b.1942 |
| Lange, Dorothea (American photographer) |
1895-1965 |
| Lange, Friedrich Albert (German philosopher) |
1828-1875 |
| Langen, Eugen (German engineer) |
1833-1895 |
| Langenhoven, Cornelius Jacob (South African poet, politician) |
1878-1932 |
| Langer, Frantisek (Czech physician, dramatist) |
1888-1965 |
| Langer, Johann Peter von (German painter) |
1756-1824 |
| Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth (Am. philosopher, educator) |
1895-1985 |
| Langer, William Leonard (American historian) |
1896-1977 |
| Langerhans, Paul (German pathologist, microscopist) |
1847-1888 |
| Langeron, Andrault de (French general in Russian service) |
1763-1831 |
| Langevin, Paul (French physicist) |
1872-1946 |
| Langford, Nathaniel Pitt (American explorer, conservationist) |
1832-1911 |
| Langham, Simon (English prelate) |
1310-1376 |
| Langhans, Carl Gotthard (German architect) |
1732-1808 |
| Langhorne, John (English poet, translator) |
1735-1779 |
| Langhorne, William (English translator; brother of John) |
1721-1772 |
| Langiewicz, Marian Melchior (Polish patriot) |
1827-1887 |
| Langland, William (also Langley) (English poet) |
c.1330-c.1400 |
| Langles, Louis-Mathieu (French Orientalist) |
1763-1824 |
| Langley, Samuel Pierpont (Am. astronomer, airplane pioneer) |
1834-1906 |
| Langlois, Charles-Victor (French scholar) |
1863-1929 |
| Langlois, Hippolyte (French general) |
1839-1912 |
| Langlois, Jean-Charles (French soldier, painter) |
1789-1870 |
| Langmuir, Irving (American chemist, inventor) |
1881-1957 |
| Langston, John Mercer (American educator, diplomat) |
1829-1897 |
| Langstroth, Lorenzo Lorraine (American apiarist) |
1810-1895 |
| Langtoft, Peter (English religious, chronicler) |
d.c.1307 |
| Langton, Stephen (English archbishop of Canterbury 1207-1228) |
c.1150-1228 |
| Langton, Walter (English prelate, politician) |
d.1321 |
| Langtry, Lillie née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton (Brit. actor) |
1853-1929 |
| Languet, Hubert (French diplomat, writer) |
1518-1581 |
| Lanier, Jaron (American computer scientist, composer, author) |
b.1960 |
| Lanier, Nicholas (English composer, singer, painter) |
1588-1666 |
| Lanier, Sidney (American poet, musician) |
1842-1881 |
| Lanjuinais, Jean-Denis (French politician) |
1753-1827 |
| Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (English zoologist) |
1847-1929 |
| Lanman, Charles Rockwell (American Orientalist) |
1850-1941 |
| Lanner, Joseph Franz Karl (Austrian dance composer) |
1801-1843 |
| Lannes, Jean (Duc de Montebello) (French general) |
1769-1809 |
| La Noue, Francois de "Bras-de-Fer" (French soldier) |
1531-1591 |
| Lanrezac, Charles-Louis-Marie (French general) |
1852-1925 |
| Lansbury, George (English politician) |
1859-1940 |
| Lansel, Peider (Italian-born Romansh poet) |
1863-1943 |
| Lansing, Robert (American lawyer, public official) |
1864-1928 |
| Lanston, Tolbert (American inventor) |
1844-1913 |
| Lanza, Giovanni (Italian politician; prime minister 1869-1873) |
1810-1882 |
| Lanzi, Luigi (Italian archaeologist, antiquary) |
1732-1810 |
| Lanzo (or Lanzone) of Milan (Lombard noble) |
fl. 1042 |
| Laodice (Syrian queen) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Lao She (pseud. of Shu Sheyou; b. Shu Qingchun)(Chinese writer) |
1899-1966 |
| Lao-tzu (Chinese philosopher; trad. author of Tao-te Ching) |
c.604-c.531 BC |
| Lapchick, Joseph Bohomiel "Joe" (Am. basketball player, coach) |
1900-1970 |
| Lapidus, Morris (Russian-born American architect) |
1902-2001 |
| Laplace, Pierre-Simon de (French astronomer, mathematician) |
1749-1827 |
| Lapointe, Paul-Marie (Canadian poet) |
b.1929 |
| Lapp, Ralph (American physicist; built H-Bomb w/Teller) |
b.1917 |
| Lapparent, Albert-Auguste Cochon de (French geol., mining eng.) |
1839-1908 |
| Lappe, Marc Alan (American toxicologist) |
1943-2005 |
| Lapworth, Charles (English geologist) |
1842-1920 |
| La Ramee, Pierre de (Petrus Ramus) (Fr. philosopher, logician) |
1515-1572 |
| Laramie, Jacques (Canadian-born? American fur trapper) |
d.1821 |
| Larbaud, Valery-Nicolas (French novelist, critic) |
1881-1957 |
| Larcom, Lucy (American poet) |
1826-1893 |
| Lardner, Nathaniel (English biblical & patristic scholar) |
1684-1768 |
| Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" (American short-story writer) |
1885-1933 |
| Laredo Bru, Federico (Cuban soldier; president 1936-1940) |
1875-1946 |
| La Revelliere-Lepeaux, Louis-Marie de (French politician) |
1753-1824 |
| Largilliere (or Largilierre), Nicolas de (French painter) |
1656-1746 |
| Largo Caballero, Francisco (Spanish labor leader, politician) |
1869-1946 |
| Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich (Russian painter, stage designer) |
1881-1964 |
| La Rive, Auguste-Arthur de (Swiss physicist) |
1801-1873 |
| Larivey, Pierre de (orig. surname Giunta) (French playwright) |
c.1540-1619 |
| La Riviere, Bureau de (French politician) |
d.1400 |
| Larkin, Philip Arthur (English poet, writer) |
1922-1985 |
| Larminie, William (Irish poet) |
1849-1900 |
| Larmor, Sir Joseph (Irish-born British mathematician) |
1857-1942 |
| La Roche, Sophie von née Gutermann (German novelist) |
1731-1807 |
| La Rochefoucauld, Francois de (French moralist, writer) |
1613-1680 |
| La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois de (Fr. social reformer) |
1747-1827 |
| Laromiguiere, Pierre (French philosopher) |
1756-1837 |
| Larousse, Pierre-Athanase (French grammarian, lexicographer) |
1817-1875 |
| Larra y Sanchez de Castro, Mariano Jose de (Spanish journalist) |
1809-1837 |
| Larreta, Enrique Rodriguez (Argentinian novelist) |
1875-1961 |
| Larrey, Dominique-Jean (French military surgeon) |
1766-1842 |
| Larsen, Esper Signius Jr. (American petrologist) |
1879-1961 |
| Larsen, Nella (married surname Imes) (American writer, nurse) |
1891-1964 |
| Lars Porsena (King of Clusium) |
6th cent. BC |
| Larson, Carl (Swedish painter, etcher) |
1853-1919 |
| Larson, Gary (American cartoonist) |
b.1950 |
| Lartet, Edouard-Armand-Isidore-Hippolyte (French archaeologist) |
1801-1871 |
| La Rue, Pierre de (Petrus Platensis) (Flemish composer) |
c.1460-1518 |
| La Sale (or La Salle), Antoine de (French courtier, writer) |
c.1386-c.1460 |
| La Salle, Saint Jean-Baptiste de (French religious, educator) |
1651-1719 |
| La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier de (French explorer in America) |
1643-1687 |
| Lascaris, Constantine (Greek grammarian) |
1434-1501 |
| Lascaris, John (or Janus) (Greek scholar, teacher) |
c.1445-c.1535 |
| Las Casas, Bartolome de (Spanish missionary, historian) |
1474-1566 |
| Las Cases, Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonne-Joseph de (French hist.) |
1766-1842 |
| Lasch, Christopher (American social critic, cultural historian) |
1932-1994 |
| La Serna y Hinojosa, Jose de (Spanish general) |
1770-1832 |
| Lashley, Karl Spencer (American psychologist) |
1890-1958 |
| Lasker, Albert Davis (Ger.-born American advertising executive) |
1880-1952 |
| Lasker, Eduard (German politician) |
1829-1884 |
| Lasker, Emanuel (German chess master) |
1868-1941 |
| Lasker-Schuler, Else née Schuler (German writer, poet) |
1869-1945 |
| Laski, Harold Joseph (English political scientist) |
1893-1950 |
| Laski, Jan the Elder (Polish ecclesiastic, politician) |
1455-1531 |
| Laski, Jan the Younger (Polish religious reformer) |
1499-1560 |
| Lasky, Jesse Louis (American motion-picture producer) |
1880-1958 |
| Lassalle, Ferdinand (surname orig. Lassal) (German Socialist) |
1825-1864 |
| Lassell, William (English astronomer) |
1799-1880 |
| Lassen, Eduard (Danish-born Belgian composer) |
1830-1904 |
| Lasseran Massencome, Blaise de (French soldier) |
c.1500-1577 |
| Lassiter, Rob (b. Robert Glodowski) (American radio talk host) |
1945-2006 |
| Lasso, Orlando di (orig. Orlande de Lassus) (Flemish composer) |
1532-1594 |
| Lasswell, Harold Dwight (American political scientist) |
1902-1978 |
| Lastman, Pieter (Dutch painter) |
1583-1633 |
| Lasus of Hermione (Greek poet) |
6th cent. BC |
| Laswell, Bill (American musician, producer, businessman) |
b.1955 |
| Laszlo I, Saint (King of Hungary 1077-1095) |
1040-1095 |
| Laszlo II (King of Hungary 1161-1162) |
1131-1162 |
| Laszlo III (King of Hungary 1204-1205) |
1199-1205 |
| Laszlo IV (the Cuman) (King of Hungary 1272-1290) |
1262-1290 |
| Laszlo V (Posthumus) (King of Hungary 1444-1457) |
1440-1457 |
| Laszlo de Lombos, Philip Alexius de (Hung.-born Brit. painter) |
1869-1937 |
| La Taille, Jean de (French poet, dramatist) |
c.1540-c.1607 |
| Latecoere, Pierre (French aircraft manufacturer) |
1883-1943 |
| Lateur, Frank (pseud. Stijn Streuvels) (Flemish writer) |
1871-1969 |
| Latham, John (English ornithologist) |
1740-1837 |
| Lathrop, Julia Clifford (American social-service worker) |
1858-1932 |
| Lathrop, Mary Alphonsa (Mother Alphonsa) (American religious) |
1851-1926 |
| Latimer, Hugh (English religious reformer) |
c.1485-1555 |
| Latini, Brunetto (Florentine writer, politician) |
1212?-1294? |
| La Tour, Charles Turgis de Sainte-Etienne de (Fr. col. admin.) |
1596-1666 |
| La Tour, Georges de (French painter) |
1593-1652 |
| La Tour, Maurice Quentin de (French painter) |
1704-1788 |
| La Tour d'Auvergne, Henri de (French noble, soldier) |
1611-1675 |
| Latreille, Pierre-Andre (French entomologist) |
1762-1833 |
| Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (English-born Am. architect, engineer) |
1764-1820 |
| Latshaw, George Tarrant (Am. puppeteer: O'Neill Puppetry Conf.) |
1923-2006 |
| Lattimer, John Kingsley (American urologist) |
1914-2007 |
| Lattimore, Owen (American Orientalist) |
1900-1989 |
| Lattimore, Richmond (American poet, translator) |
1906-1984 |
| Lattre de Tassigny, Jean-Marie-Gabriel de (French soldier) |
1889-1952 |
| Lattuada, Alberto (Italian film director) |
1914-2005 |
| Laubach, Frank Charles (American educator, missionary) |
1884-1970 |
| Laube, Heinrich Rudolf Constanz (Ger. writer, theater director) |
1806-1884 |
| Laud, William (English archbishop of Canterbury 1633-1645) |
1573-1645 |
| Lauder, Sir Harry MacLennan (Scottish music-hall comedian) |
1870-1950 |
| Lauder, William (Scottish Latin scholar, literary impostor) |
d.1771 |
| Laudon (or Loudon), Gideon Ernst von (Austrian field marshal) |
1717-1790 |
| Laudonniere, Rene Goulaine de (French colonist in America) |
fl. 1562-1582 |
| Laue, Max Theodor Felix von (German physicist) |
1879-1960 |
| Laughlin, James (American publisher, editor, poet) |
b.1914 |
| Laughton, Charles (English-born American actor) |
1899-1962 |
| Laumont, Francois-Pierre-Nicolas Gillet (French mineralogist) |
1747-1834 |
| Laurana, Francesco da (Italian sculptor, medalist) |
c.1425-c.1502 |
| Laurana, Luciano da (Italian architect) |
d.1479 |
| Laurel, Jose Paciano (Philippine politician; pres. 1943-1945) |
1891-1959 |
| Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson "Stan" (Am. film comedian) |
1890-1965 |
| Laurence, Jean Margaret née Wemyss (Canadian author) |
1926-1987 |
| Laurencin, Marie (French painter) |
1885-1956 |
| Laurens, Henry (American Revolutionary statesman) |
1724-1792 |
| Laurens, John (American Revolutionary officer; son of Henry) |
1754-1782 |
| Laurent, Auguste (orig. Augustin) (French chemist) |
1807-1853 |
| Laurent, Francois (Belgian historian, legal scholar) |
1810-1887 |
| Laurent, Paul Matthieu Hermann (French mathematician) |
1841-1908 |
| Lauria (or Luria, Loria), Ruggiero di (Italian naval commander) |
1250?-1305 |
| Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (Canadian prime minister 1896-1911) |
1841-1919 |
| Laussedat, Aime (French army officer, geodesist) |
1819-1907 |
| Lautaro (Chilean Araucanian Indian chieftain) |
d.1557 |
| Lautrec, Odet de Foix de (French soldier) |
1485-1528 |
| Lauzun, Antonin-Nompar de Caumont de (French soldier) |
1633-1723 |
| Laval, Andre de Montfort de (French soldier) |
1411-1485/86 |
| Laval, Carl Gustaf Patrik de (Swedish engineer) |
1845-1913 |
| Laval, Francois-Xavier de Montmorency (French prelate) |
1623-1708 |
| Laval, Pierre (French politician) |
1883-1945 |
| La Valette, Jean Parisot de (French soldier) |
1494-1568 |
| La Valliere, Duchesse de (French mistress of Louis XIV) |
1644-1710 |
| Lavater, Johann Kaspar (Swiss poet, mystic, writer) |
1741-1801 |
| Laveran, Charles-Louis-Alphonse (French parasitologist) |
1845-1922 |
| La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de (Can. explorer) |
1685-1749 |
| Lavery, Sir John (Irish-born British painter) |
1856-1941 |
| Lavigerie, Charles-Martial Allemand (French prelate) |
1825-1892 |
| Lavin, Mary (American-born Irish writer) |
b.1912 |
| Lavisse, Ernest (French historian) |
1842-1922 |
| Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (French chemist) |
1743-1794 |
| Lavon, Pinhas (surname orig. Lubianiker) (Israeli politician) |
1904-1976 |
| Lavrov, Pyotr Lavrovich (Russian revolutionist, scholar) |
1823-1900 |
| Law, Andrew Bonar (Canadian-born British politician) |
1858-1923 |
| Law, Edward (1st Baron Ellenborough) (English judge) |
1750-1818 |
| Law, Edward (Earl of Ellenborough) (Eng. polit.; son of Edward) |
1790-1871 |
| Law, Jacques-Alexandre-Bernard (French soldier) |
1768-1828 |
| Law of Lauriston, John (Scottish financier) |
1671-1729 |
| Law, Sallie Chapman née Gordon (American nurse) |
1805-1894 |
| Law, William (English writer) |
1686-1761 |
| Lawes, Henry (English composer) |
1596-1662 |
| Lawes, Sir John Bennet (English agriculturist) |
1814-1900 |
| Lawes, Lewis Edward (American penologist) |
1883-1947 |
| Lawes, William (English composer; brother of Henry) |
1602-1645 |
| Lawler, Raymond Evenor "Ray" (Australian actor, playwright) |
b.1922 |
| Lawless, Emily (Irish writer) |
1845-1913 |
| Lawrance, Charles Lanier (American aeronautical engineer) |
1882-1950 |
| Lawrence (or Laurence), Saint (Christian martyr) |
d.258 |
| Lawrence of Brindisi, Saint (Italian religious) |
1559-1619 |
| Lawrence of Canterbury, Saint (Anglo-Saxon prelate) |
d.619 |
| Lawrence, Abbott (Am. merchant; partner with brother William) |
1792-1855 |
| Lawrence, Sir Alfred Tristram (English jurist) |
1843-1936 |
| Lawrence, Amos (American merchant; brother of William) |
1786-1852 |
| Lawrence, Amos Adams (Am. merchant, manufacturer; son of Amos) |
1814-1886 |
| Lawrence, Arnie (American-born Israeli musician, teacher) |
1938-2005 |
| Lawrence, David (American journalist) |
1888-1973 |
| Lawrence, David Herbert "D.H." (English writer, poet, essayist) |
1885-1930 |
| Lawrence, Ernest Orlando (American physicist; inv. cyclotron) |
1901-1958 |
| Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen (German wife of D.H. Lawrence) |
1879-1956 |
| Lawrence, Sir George St. Patrick (India-born British soldier) |
1804-1884 |
| Lawrence, Gertrude (English actor) |
1898-1952 |
| Lawrence, Sir Henry Montgomery (Indian admin.; bro. of George) |
1806-1857 |
| Lawrence, Jacob (American painter) |
1917-2000 |
| Lawrence, James (American naval officer) |
1781-1813 |
| Lawrence, John Laird Mair (Indian admin.; bro. of Sir George) |
1811-1879 |
| Lawrence, Stringer (English soldier) |
1697-1775 |
| Lawrence, Sir Thomas (English painter) |
1769-1830 |
| Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Brit. archaeologist, soldier, writer) |
1888-1935 |
| Lawrence, William (American merchant) |
1783-1848 |
| Lawrence Justinian, Saint (Italian religious, Augustinian monk) |
1381-1456 |
| Laws, Samuel Spahr (American educator) |
1824-1921 |
| Lawson, Andrew Cowper (Scottish-born American geologist) |
1861-1952 |
| Lawson (orig. Larsen), Henry Archibald (Australian writer) |
1867-1922 |
| Lawson, John (English colonist in North Carolina) |
d.1711 |
| Lawson, John Howard (American playwright, screenwriter) |
1894-1977 |
| Lawson, Thomas William (American stock market speculator) |
1857-1925 |
| Lawson, Victor Fremont (or Freemont) (American journalist) |
1850-1925 |
| Lawton, Henry Ware (American soldier) |
1843-1899 |
| Laxness, Halldor (Halldor Kiljan Gudjonsson) (Icelandic writer) |
b.1902 |
| Lay, Horatio Nelson (English diplomat) |
1832-1898 |
| Layamon (also Lawamon) (English poet) |
fl.1200 |
| Layard, Sir Austen Henry (English archaeologist, diplomat) |
1817-1894 |
| Laye, Camara (Guinean writer) |
1928-1980 |
| Layne, Richie (b. Richard Israel Cohen) (Am. ventriloquist) |
1924-2006 |
| Layton, Irving (b.Israel Pincu Lazarovitch)(Rom.-born Can.poet) |
1912-2006 |
| Lazarev, Pyotr Petrovich (Soviet physicist, biophysicist) |
1878-1942 |
| Lazar Hrebeljanovic (Prince of the Serbs 1371-1389) |
1329-1389 |
| Lazarus, Emma (American poet, essayist, translator) |
1849-1887 |
| Lazarus, Moritz (German philosopher) |
1824-1903 |
| Lazear, Jesse William (American physician) |
1866-1900 |
| Lazhechnikov, Ivan Ivanovich (Russian novelist, playwright) |
1792-1869 |
| Lea, Homer (American soldier) |
1876-1912 |
| Leach, Bernard Howell (Hong Kong-born British potter) |
1887-1979 |
| Leacock, Stephen Butler (English-born Can. economist, humorist) |
1869-1944 |
| Leadbeater, Charles Webster (English theosophist) |
1854-1934 |
| Leahy, Frank (American football coach at Notre Dame) |
1908-1973 |
| Leahy, William Daniel (American naval officer) |
1875-1959 |
| Leake, William Martin (Eng. antiquarian, classical topographer) |
1777-1860 |
| Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (Kenyan-born Brit. paleontologist) |
1903-1972 |
| Leakey, Mary Douglas née Nichol (English anthropologist) |
1913-1996 |
| Leakey, Richard (Erskine Frere) (Kenyan paleoanthropologist) |
b.1944 |
| Leal, Antonio Duarte Gomes (Portuguese poet) |
1848-1921 |
| Lean, Sir David (British film director) |
1908-1991 |
| Leander, Saint (Spanish prelate) |
d.c.1600 |
| Lear, Edward (English painter, nonsense poet, humorist) |
1812-1888 |
| Lear, Tobias (American diplomat) |
1762-1816 |
| Lear, William Powell (Am. electronic engineer, manufacturer) |
1902-1978 |
| Leary, Denis (American comedian, actor) |
b.1958 |
| Leary, Timothy Francis (American psychologist) |
1920-1996 |
| Lease, Mary Elizabeth née Clyens (American reformer) |
1853-1933 |
| Least Heat Moon, William (William Trogdon) (American writer) |
b.1939 |
| Leavenworth, Henry (Am. soldier; eponym of Ft. Leavenworth) |
1783-1834 |
| Leavis, Frank Raymond (English literary critic) |
1895-1978 |
| Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (American astronomer) |
1868-1921 |
| Lebaudy, Paul (French industrialist) |
1858-1937 |
| Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich (Russian physicist) |
1866-1912 |
| Lebedev, Sergey Vasilyevich (Russian chemist) |
1874-1934 |
| Le Bel, Joseph-Achille (French chemist) |
1847-1930 |
| Lebesgue, Henri-Leon (French mathematician) |
1875-1941 |
| Leblanc, Maurice-Marie-Emile (French writer, journalist) |
1864-1941 |
| Leblanc, Nicolas (French chemist) |
1742-1806 |
| Le Blon, Jakob Christoph (German painter, engraver) |
1670-1741 |
| Leblond, Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste (French landscape designer) |
1679-1719 |
| Leboeuf, Edmond (French soldier) |
1809-1888 |
| Le Bon, Gustave (French sociologist) |
1841-1931 |
| Lebon, Philippe (French chemist, civil engineer) |
1767-1804 |
| Le Boulenge, Paul-Emile (Belgian artillery officer) |
1832-1901 |
| Lebowitz, Fran (American journalist, humorist) |
b.1951 |
| Le Braz, Anatole (French writer, folklorist, poet) |
1859-1926 |
| Le Breton, Andre-Francois (French publisher) |
1708-1779 |
| Lebrun, Albert (French politician; president 1932-1940) |
1871-1950 |
| Le Brun (or Lebrun), Charles (French painter) |
1619-1690 |
| Lebrun, Charles-Francois (Duc de Plaisance) (French politician) |
1739-1824 |
| Lebrun, Ponce-Denis-Ecouchard (aka Lebrun-Pindare) (Fr. poet) |
1729-1807 |
| Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy (Polish writer) |
1909-1966 |
| Le Carre, John (pseud. of David Moore Cornwell) (English nov.) |
b.1931 |
| Lecavele, Roland (pen name Roland Dorgeles) (French writer) |
1886-1973 |
| Le Chapelier, Isaac-Rene-Guy (French politician) |
1754-1794 |
| Le Chatelier, Henry-Louis (French chemist) |
1850-1936 |
| Leck, Barth Anthony van der (Dutch artist) |
1876-1958 |
| Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (Irish historian, philosopher) |
1838-1903 |
| Leclair, Jean-Marie (the Elder) (French violin virtuoso, comp.) |
1697-1764 |
| Leclair, Jean-Marie (the Younger) (Fr. violin virtuoso, comp.) |
1703-1777 |
| Leclair, Pierre (Fr. violin virtuoso, comp.; bro. of Jean I,II) |
1709-1784 |
| Leclanche, Georges (French engineer; invented first dry cell) |
1839-1882 |
| Leclerc, Charles-Victor-Emmanuel (French soldier) |
1772-1802 |
| Le Clerc (or Leclerc), Jean (Swiss theologian, scholar) |
1657-1736 |
| Le Clezio, Jean-Marie-Gustave (French writer) |
b.1940 |
| L'Ecluse, Charles de (Carolus Clusius) (French botanist) |
1526-1609 |
| Lecocq, Alexandre-Charles (French composer) |
1832-1918 |
| Le Conte, Joseph (American geologist) |
1823-1901 |
| Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie-Rene (French poet) |
1818-1894 |
| Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul-Emile "Francois" (French chemist) |
1838-1912 |
| Lecouvreur, Adrienne (French actor) |
1692-1730 |
| Ledbetter, Huddie "Leadbelly" (American singer, guitarist) |
1888-1949 |
| Ledebour, Georg (German Socialist) |
1850-1947 |
| Lederberg, Joshua (American geneticist) |
b.1925 |
| Lederer, Emil (German economist, sociologist) |
1882-1939 |
| Lederer, Esther Pauline née Friedman "Ann Landers (Am. writer) |
1918-2002 |
| Lederman, Leon Max (American physicist; co-disc. muon neutrino) |
b.1922 |
| Ledesma Buitrago, Alonso de (Spanish poet) |
1562-1633 |
| Ledochowski, Mieczyslaw Halka (Polish prelate) |
1822-1902 |
| Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas (French architect) |
1736-1806 |
| Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre-Auguste (French lawyer, politician) |
1807-1874 |
| Leduc, Violette (French writer) |
1907-1972 |
| Le Duc Tho (Phan Dinh Khai) (Vietnamese diplomat) |
1911-1990 |
| Ledwidge, Francis (Irish poet) |
1891-1917 |
| Ledyard, John (American explorer, adventurer) |
1751-1789 |
| Lee, Ann (English-born American religious; fd. Shaker Society) |
1736-1784 |
| Lee, Arthur (American diplomat; brothers: Francis, Richard) |
1740-1792 |
| Lee, Arthur (b. Arthur Porter Taylor) (Am. singer, songwriter) |
1945-2006 |
| Lee, Arthur Hamilton (English politician) |
1868-1947 |
| Lee, Charles (English-born American general) |
1731-1782 |
| Lee, Charles (American jurist; brother of Henry) |
1758-1815 |
| Lee, Fitzhugh (American army officer; nephew of Robert E. Lee) |
1835-1905 |
| Lee, Francis Lightfoot (American politician) |
1734-1797 |
| Lee, Gordon (b. Eugene Lee) (Am. actor; Little Rascal "Porky") |
1933-2005 |
| Lee, Gypsy Rose (orig. Rose Louise Hovick) (Am. stripteaser) |
1914-1970 |
| Lee, Henry (Light-Horse Harry) (Am. gen.; father of R.E. Lee) |
1756-1818 |
| Lee, Ivy Kedbetter (American public relations consultant) |
1877-1934 |
| Lee, Jason (Canadian-born American pioneer, missionary) |
1803-1845 |
| Lee, Laurie (English poet, writer) |
b.1914 |
| Lee, Manfred Bennington (pseud. Ellery Queen) (Am. novelist) |
1905-1971 |
| Lee, Mary Ann (American dancer) |
1823?-1899 |
| Lee, Nathaniel (English dramatist) |
1653?-1692 |
| Lee, Nelle Harper (American writer) |
b.1926 |
| Lee, Richard Henry (American Revolutionary statesman) |
1732-1794 |
| Lee, Robert Edward (American soldier) |
1807-1870 |
| Lee, Samuel Phillips (Am. naval officer; grandson of R.H. Lee) |
1812-1897 |
| Lee, Sir Sidney (English editor, scholar) |
1859-1926 |
| Lee, Spike (Shelton Jackson Lee) (American movie director) |
b.1957 |
| Lee, Tsung-Dao (Chinese physicist) |
b.1926 |
| Lee, William (English inventor) |
1550?-1610 |
| Lee, Yuan Tseh (Taiwanese-born American chemist) |
b.1936 |
| Leech, John (English caricaturist) |
1817-1864 |
| Leeser, Isaac (Prussian-born American rabbi) |
1806-1868 |
| Leete, William (English-born American pioneer) |
1613?-1683 |
| Leeuw, Gerardus van der (Dutch Reformed theologian) |
1890-1950 |
| Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (Dutch naturalist, microbiologist) |
1632-1723 |
| Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (Irish novelist) |
1814-1873 |
| Lefebvre, Charles-Edouard (French composer) |
1843-1917 |
| Lefebvre, Pierre-Francois-Joseph (French soldier) |
1755-1820 |
| Lefebvre-Desnouettes, Charles (French soldier) |
1773-1822 |
| Lefevre d'Etaples, Jacques (French theologian, reformer) |
c.1455-1536 |
| Leff, Sydney (Am. commercial artist, sheet music illustrator) |
1901-2005 |
| Le Fort, Gertrud von (German poet, novelist) |
1876-1971 |
| Lefranc, Jean-Jacques (Marquis de Pompignan) (French poet) |
1709-1784 |
| Lefuel, Hector-Martin (French architect) |
1810-1881 |
| Le Gallienne, Eva (English-born American actor, director) |
1899-1991 |
| Le Gallienne, Richard (English writer) |
1866-1947 |
| Legare, Hugh Swinton (American lawyer) |
1797-1843 |
| Legate, Bartholomew (English religious) |
c.1575-1612 |
| Legazpi, Miguel Lopez de (Spanish explorer) |
c.1510-1572 |
| Legendre, Adrien-Marie (French mathematician) |
1752-1833 |
| Leger, Alexis Saint-Leger (French diplomat, poet) |
1887-1975 |
| Leger, Fernan (French painter) |
1881-1955 |
| Leger, Marie-Rene-Auguste-Alexis Saint-Leger (Fr. poet, dipl.) |
1887-1975 |
| Legge, James (Scottish missionary, Sinologist) |
1815-1897 |
| Legnani, Pierina (Italian ballerina) |
1863-1923 |
| Legouve, Gabriel-Jean-Baptiste-Ernest-Wilfrid (French writer) |
1807-1903 |
| Legouve, Gabriel-Marie-Jean-Baptiste (French playwright) |
1764-1812 |
| Legrain, Georges (French Egyptologist) |
1865-1917 |
| Legrenzi, Giovanni (Italian composer) |
1626-1690 |
| Legros, Alphonse (French-born English painter, etcher) |
1837-1911 |
| Leguia y Salcedo, Augusto Bernardino (Peruvian politician) |
1863-1932 |
| Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber (American writer) |
b.1929 |
| Lehar, Franz (Hungarian composer) |
1870-1948 |
| Lehman, Herbert Henry (American banker, politician) |
1878-1963 |
| Lehman, Richard (American CIA official; created PICL) |
1923-2007 |
| Lehmann, Ernst August (German aeronautical engineer) |
1886-1937 |
| Lehmann, John Frederick (Eng. editor, poet; sister: Rosamond) |
1907-1987 |
| Lehmann, Lilli (German soprano) |
1848-1929 |
| Lehmann, Lotte (German-born American soprano) |
1888-1976 |
| Lehmann, Peter Martin Orla (Danish politician) |
1810-1870 |
| Lehmann, Rosamond Nina (Eng. writer; brother: John Frederick) |
1901-1990 |
| Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut Alexander "Sandy" (Am. Merry Prankster) |
1942-2001 |
| Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (German sculptor, etcher) |
1881-1919 |
| Lehmer, Emma Markovna née Trotskaia (Russian-born Am. math.) |
1906-2007 |
| Lehn, Jean-Marie Pierre (French chemist) |
b.1939 |
| Le Hoan (Vietnamese king 980-1005) |
d.1005 |
| Lehrer, Thomas Andrew "Tom" (American satirist, singer) |
b.1928 |
| Lehtonen, Joel (Finnish poet, novelist) |
1881-1934 |
| Leiber, Fritz Reuter (American writer) |
1910-1992 |
| Leibl, Wilhelm (German painter) |
1844-1900 |
| Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (German philosopher, mathematician) |
1646-1716 |
| Leibovitz, Annie (American photographer) |
b.1949 |
| Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (German explorer) |
1813-1848 |
| Leichtentritt, Hugo (German composer, writer on music) |
1874-1951 |
| Leidy, Joseph (American zoologist) |
1823-1891 |
| Leif Eriksson (also Ericsson) (Icelandic-born Norw. explorer) |
fl. 1000 |
| Leighton, Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) (Eng. painter) |
1830-1896 |
| Leighton, Robert (Scottish prelate) |
1611-1684 |
| Leinberger, Hans (German sculptor) |
c.1480-1535 |
| Leinsdorf, Erich (Austrian-born American conductor) |
1912-1993 |
| Leipoldt, Christiaan Frederick Louis (South African writer) |
1880-1947 |
| Leiris, Michel Julien (French writer, ethnologist, art critic) |
1901-1990 |
| Leisewitz, Johann Anton (German dramatist) |
1752-1806 |
| Leisler, Jacob (German-born American insurrectionary leader) |
1640-1691 |
| Leith, Charles Kenneth (American geologist) |
1875-1956 |
| Leitzel, Lillian (German-born American circus aerialist) |
1892/93-1931 |
| Leivick, Halper (Russian-born American poet, playwright) |
1888-1962 |
| Le Jeune, Claude (French composer) |
c.1528-1600 |
| Lejeune, John Archer (American marine corps officer) |
1867-1942 |
| Lejeune, Louis-Francois (French general, painter) |
1775-1848 |
| Le Jumel de Barneville, Marie-Catherine (French writer) |
1650/51-1705 |
| Lekain (orig. Henri-Louis Cain) (French tragedian) |
1729-1778 |
| Lekeu, Guillaume-Jean-Joseph-Nicolas (Belgian composer) |
1870-1894 |
| Leland, Charles Godfrey (American poet, writer) |
1824-1903 |
| Leland, Henry Martyn (American automobile manufacturer) |
1843-1932 |
| Leland, John (English antiquary) |
1506?-1552 |
| Lelewel, Joachim (Polish historian, geographer, politician) |
1786-1861 |
| Le Loi (reign title Le Thai To) (Vietnamese emperor 1428-1443) |
d.1443 |
| Leloir, Luis Federico (French-born Argentinean biochemist) |
1906-1987 |
| Lely, Sir Peter (orig. Pieter Van der Faes) (British painter) |
1618-1680 |
| Lem, Stanislaw (Polish novelist) |
b.1921 |
| Le Macon (or Le Masson), Robert (French politician) |
1365?-1443 |
| Le Maire, Jacques (French instrument maker) |
fl. 1720-1740 |
| Le Maire, Jakob (Dutch navigator with Willem Schouten) |
1585-1616 |
| Lemaire de Belges, Jean (Flemish poet, chronicler) |
1473-1525 |
| Le Maistre, Antoine (French religious) |
1608-1658 |
| Lemaitre, Francois-Elie-Jules (Fr. writer, critic, dramatist) |
1853-1914 |
| Lemaitre, Georges-Henri (Belgian astrophysicist) |
1894-1966 |
| Lemay, Leon-Pamphile (French-Canadian poet, novelist) |
1837-1918 |
| Lemercier, Jacques (French architect) |
1585?-1654 |
| Lemercier, Louis-Jean-Nepomucene (French playwright, poet) |
1771-1840 |
| Lemery, Nicolas (French chemist) |
1645-1715 |
| Lemon, Mark (English journalist, author; a founder of Punch) |
1809-1870 |
| Lemonnier, Antoine-Louis-Camille (Belgian writer, art critic) |
1844-1913 |
| Lemonnier, Pierre-Charles (French astronomer) |
1715-1799 |
| Lemot, Francois-Frederic (French sculptor) |
1773-1827 |
| Le Moyne, Antoine (Canadian colonist; son of Charles) |
1681-1747 |
| Le Moyne, Charles (French colonist in Canada) |
1626-1685 |
| Le Moyne, Charles (Canadian colonial leader; son of Charles) |
1656-1729 |
| Le Moyne, Francois (French painter) |
1688-1737 |
| Le Moyne, Jean-Baptiste (Canadian colonist; son of Charles) |
1680-1747 |
| Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste (French sculptor) |
1704-1778 |
| Le Moyne, Pierre (Canadian soldier, colonist; son of Charles) |
1661-1706 |
| Le Nain, Antoine (French painter) |
c.1588-1648 |
| Le Nain, Louis (French painter; brother of Antoine) |
1593-1648 |
| Le Nain, Mathieu (French painter; brother of Antoine) |
1607-1677 |
| Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton (Hungarian-born German physicist) |
1862-1947 |
| Lenartowicz, Aleksander Teofil (Polish poet) |
1822-1893 |
| Lenau, Nikolaus (b. Nicolaus Franz Niembsch) (Austrian poet) |
1802-1850 |
| Lenbach, Franz von (German painter) |
1836-1904 |
| Lenclos (or Lanclos), Anne de "Ninon" (French courtesan) |
1620-1705 |
| L'Enfant, Pierre Charles (French-born Am. architect, soldier) |
1754-1825 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine née Camp (married name Franklin)(Am. writer) |
b.1918 |
| Lenglen, Suzanne (French tennis player) |
1899-1938 |
| Lenin (orig. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) (Russian Communist leader) |
1870-1924 |
| Lennep, Jacob van (Dutch writer, poet, man of letters) |
1802-1868 |
| Lenngren, Anna Maria née Malmstedt (Swedish poet) |
1754-1817 |
| Lennon, John Winston Ono (English singer, songwriter; Beatle) |
1940-1980 |
| Lennox, Annie (Scottish-born British singer) |
b.1954 |
| Lennox, Charlotte née Ramsay (Am.-born British novelist, poet) |
1720-1804 |
| Leno, Dan (orig. George Galvin) (English entertainer) |
1860-1904 |
| Leno, Jay (James Douglas Muir) (American comedian) |
b.1950 |
| Lenoir, Marie-Alexandre (French antiquary) |
1761-1839 |
| Lenoir, Jean-Joseph-Etienne (French inventor) |
1822-1900 |
| Lenormand, Henri-Rene (French playwright) |
1882-1951 |
| Lenormand, Louis-Sebastien (French chemist, aeronaut) |
1757-1839 |
| Lenormand, Marie-Anne-Adelaide (French fortune teller) |
1772-1843 |
| Lenormant, Francois (French Assyriologist, numismatist) |
1837-1883 |
| Lenotre, Andre (French landscape architect) |
1613-1700 |
| Lenox, James (American bibliophile, philanthropist) |
1800-1880 |
| Lenthall, William (English parliamentarian) |
1591-1662 |
| Lentulus, Lucius Cornelius (surnamed Crus) (Roman politician) |
d.48 BC |
| Lentulus, Publius Cornelius (surnamed Sura) (Roman politician) |
d.63 BC |
| Lentulus, Publius Cornelius (surnamed Spinther) (Roman polit.) |
d.c.48 BC |
| Lenya, Lotte (Austrian singer, actor; wife of Kurt Weill) |
1898-1981 |
| Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (German physicist) |
1804-1865 |
| Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold (Rus.-born German poet, dramatist) |
1751-1792 |
| Lenz, Peter (German painter, architect, sculptor) |
1832-1928 |
| Lenz, Siegfried (German writer, dramatist, essayist) |
b.1926 |
| Leo I the Great, Saint (Pope 440-461) |
c.400-461 |
| Leo IX, Saint (orig. Bruno of Egisheim) (Pope 1048-1054) |
1002-1054 |
| Leo X (orig. Giovanni de' Medici) (Pope 1513-1521) |
1475-1521 |
| Leo XI (orig. Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici)(Pope April 1605) |
1535-1605 |
| Leo XII (orig. Annibale Francesco della Genga) (Pope 1823-1829) |
1760-1829 |
| Leo XIII (orig. Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci) (Pope 1878-1903) |
1810-1903 |
| Leo, Leonardo (or Lionardo) Ortensio Salvatore de (It. comp.) |
1694-1744 |
| Leo Africanus (Granada-born Arab traveler, geographer) |
c.1485-c.1554 |
| Leochares (Greek sculptor) |
4th cent. BC |
| Leo Diaconus (Byzantine historian) |
10th cent. |
| Leofric (Earl of Mercia) |
d.1057 |
| Leon, Luis de (Spanish poet, religious writer) |
1527-1591 |
| Leonard, Benny (orig. Benjamin Leiner) (American boxer) |
1896-1947 |
| Leonard, Elmore John (American writer) |
b.1925 |
| Leonard, John (American writer) |
b.1939 |
| Leonard, William Ellery (American educator, poet) |
1876-1944 |
| Leonardi, Saint John (Italian religious) |
1541?-1609 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (It. painter, sculptor, architect, engineer) |
1452-1519 |
| Leoncavallo, Ruggero (Italian composer, librettist) |
1858-1919 |
| Leone Modena (Leon of Modena; Judah Aryeh) (It. rabbi, writer) |
1571-1648 |
| Leonhard, Karl Casar von (German mineralogist; geologist) |
1779-1862 |
| Leoni, Franco (Italian composer) |
1864-1949 |
| Leoni, Leone (Italian medalist, goldsmith, sculptor) |
1509-1590 |
| Leoni, Pompeo (Italian sculptor; son of Leone) |
c.1533-1608 |
| Leonidas (Greek hero; king of Sparta 490?-480 BC) |
d.480 BC |
| Leonidas of Tarentum (Greek poet) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Leonin (or Leoninus) (French composer) |
12th cent. |
| Leonnatus (Macedonian soldier) |
d.322 BC |
| Leonor Teles de Meneses (Portuguese queen) |
d.1405 |
| Leonov, Leonid Maksimovich (Russian writer, playwright) |
1899-1994 |
| Leonowens, Anna Hariette née Crawford (Welsh educator, writer) |
1834-1914 |
| Leontief, Wassily Wassilyevich (Russian-born Am. economist) |
b.1906 |
| Leontius (Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 695-698) |
d.705 |
| Leontius of Byzantium (Byzantine monk, theologian) |
d.543 |
| Leontyev (or Leontiev), Konstantin Nikolayevich (Rus. essayist) |
1831-1891 |
| Leopardi, Alessandro (Venetian sculptor) |
d.1522? |
| Leopardi, Giacomo (Italian poet, scholar, philosopher) |
1798-1837 |
| Leopold I (Prince of Anhalt-Dessau) (Prussian field marshal) |
1676-1747 |
| Leopold, Rand Aldo (American forester, conservationist) |
1886-1948 |
| Leopold, Carl Gustaf af (Swedish poet) |
1756-1829 |
| Leopold, Jan Hendrik (Dutch poet) |
1865-1925 |
| Leotychides (or Leotychidas) (King of Sparta 491-469 BC) |
c.545-c.469 BC |
| Leovigild (King of the Visigoths in Spain c.569-586) |
d.589 |
| Lepaute, Nichole-Reine (French astronomer) |
1723-1788 |
| Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-Michel (French politician) |
1760-1793 |
| Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman general, politician) |
d.152 BC |
| Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman politician) |
d.c.77 BC |
| Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman politician) |
d.13/12 BC |
| L'Epine, Ernest (French dramatist) |
1826-1893 |
| Le Play, Pierre-Guillaume-Frederic (Fr. mining eng., sociol.) |
1806-1882 |
| Lepsius, Karl Richard (German Egyptologist) |
1810-1884 |
| Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastian (Mexican politician; pres. 1872-76) |
1827-1889 |
| Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (Russian poet, novelist) |
1814-1841 |
| Lerner, Alan Jay (American dramatist, librettist) |
1918-1986 |
| Lernet-Holenia, Alexander (Austrian dramatist, poet, writer) |
1897-1976 |
| Leroux, Francois-Pierre (French physicist) |
1832-1907 |
| Leroux, Gaston (French writer, journalist) |
1868-1927 |
| Leroux, Pierre (French philosopher, journalist, politician) |
1797-1871 |
| Leroux, Xavier-Henri-Napoleon (French composer) |
1863-1919 |
| Leroy, Catherine (French photojournalist) |
1945-2006 |
| Le Roy, Edouard (French philosopher, mathematician) |
1870-1954 |
| Lerroux Garcia, Alejandro (Spanish politician) |
1864-1949 |
| Lesage, Alain-Rene (French novelist, playwright) |
1668-1747 |
| Lescaze, William (Swiss-born American architect) |
1896-1969 |
| Leschetizky, Theodor (Polish pianist, teacher, composer) |
1830-1915 |
| Lescot, Elie (Haitian politician; president 1941-1946) |
1883-1974 |
| Lescot, Pierre (French architect) |
c.1515-1578 |
| Lese, Benozzo di (aka Benozzo Gozzoli) (Florentine painter) |
1420-1497 |
| Leskien, August (German philologist) |
1840-1916 |
| Leskov, Nikolay Semyonovich (pseud. Stebnitski)(Russian writer) |
1831-1895 |
| Leslie, Alexander (1st Earl of Leven) (Scottish soldier) |
c.1580-1661 |
| Leslie, David (1st Baron Newark) (Scottish soldier) |
1601-1682 |
| Leslie, Frank (orig. Henry Carter) (English-born Am. publisher) |
1821-1880 |
| Leslie (or Lesley), John (Scottish prelate, historian) |
1527-1596 |
| Leslie, Sir John (Scottish mathematician, physicist) |
1766-1832 |
| Leslie, Miriam Florence née Folline (Am. editor; wife of Frank) |
1836-1914 |
| Lesmian, Boleslaw née Lesman (Polish poet, lawyer) |
1878-1937 |
| Lesniewski, Stanislaw (Polish mathematician, logician) |
1886-1939 |
| Lespinasse, Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de (French hostess) |
1732-1776 |
| Lesseps, Ferdinand-Marie de (Fr. diplomat; promoted Suez Canal) |
1805-1894 |
| Lessing, Doris May née Tayler (Iranian-born British writer) |
b.1919 |
| Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (German dramatist, critic, writer) |
1729-1781 |
| L'Estrange, Sir Roger (English journalist, pamphleteer) |
1616-1704 |
| Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre (French naturalist) |
1778-1846 |
| Le Sueur, Eustache (French painter) |
1616-1655 |
| Le Sueur (or Lesueur), Jean-Francois (French composer) |
1760-1837 |
| Le Sueur, Meridel (American writer, journalist, poet) |
b.1900 |
| Le Tellier, Francois-Michel (French politician; son of Michel) |
1639-1691 |
| Le Tellier, Michel (French politician) |
1603-1685 |
| Le Thanh Tong (aka Le Thanh Ton) (Emperor of Vietnam 1460-1497) |
d.1497 |
| Letterman, David Michael (American comedian) |
b.1947 |
| Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von (German soldier) |
1870-1964 |
| Leuba, James Henry (Swiss-born American psychologist) |
1868-1946 |
| Leucippus of Miletus (Greek philosopher) |
c.480-c.420 BC |
| Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf (German zoologist) |
1822-1898 |
| Leuenberger, Nikolaus (Swiss rebel) |
c.1611-1653 |
| Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German-born American painter) |
1816-1868 |
| Levaillant, Francois (French traveler, ornithologist) |
1753-1824 |
| Levant, Oscar (American pianist, composer) |
1906-1972 |
| Levassor, Emile (French automotive engineer) |
1844?-1897 |
| Le Vau, Louis (French architect) |
1612-1670 |
| Levene, Phoebus Aaron Theodor (Russian-born Am. biochemist) |
1869-1940 |
| Levenson, Samuel (American educator, humorist, author) |
1911-1980 |
| Leventhal, Harold (American folk music promoter) |
1919-2005 |
| Leventhal, Paul Lincoln (Am. admin.; fd. Nuclear Control Inst.) |
1938-2007 |
| Lever, Charles James (Irish editor, writer) |
1806-1872 |
| Lever, William Hesketh (English soap manufacturer) |
1851-1925 |
| Leverett, Frank (American geologist) |
1859-1943 |
| Leverett, John (English-born American colonial governor) |
1616-1679 |
| Levermore, Charles Herbert (American educator, peace advocate) |
1856-1927 |
| Leverrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph (French astronomer) |
1811-1877 |
| Levertin, Oscar Ivar (Swedish poet, novelist, critic) |
1862-1906 |
| Levertov, Denise (English-born American poet, essayist) |
b.1923 |
| Leveson-Gower, Granville George (English politician) |
1815-1891 |
| Leveson-Gower, George Granville (Eng. polit., philanthropist) |
1758-1833 |
| Levi, Carlo (Italian physician, painter, novelist) |
1902-1975 |
| Levi, Primo (Italian chemist, memoirist, writer, poet) |
1919-1987 |
| Levi, Sylvain (French Orientalist) |
1863-1935 |
| Levi ben Gershom (French Jewish mathematician, philosopher) |
1288-1344 |
| Levi-Civita, Tullio (Italian mathematician) |
1873-1941 |
| Levi-Montalcini, Rita (Italian-born American neurologist) |
b.1909 |
| Levin, Meyer (American writer, newspaperman) |
1905-1981 |
| Levine, Philip (American poet, teacher) |
b.1928 |
| Levinson, Leonard Louis (American author) |
1904-1974 |
| Levinson, Salmon Oliver (American lawyer, peace advocate) |
1865-1941 |
| Levis, Francois-Gaston de (French soldier) |
1720-1787 |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude (Belgian-born Fr. social anthropologist) |
b.1908 |
| Levita, Elijah (aka Bahur) (Bavarian-born Jewish scholar) |
1469-1549 |
| Levitt, Alfred (Belarussian-born American painter) |
1894-2000 |
| Levni, Ressam (Turkish painter) |
d.1732 |
| Levy, Joseph Moses (English newspaper proprietor) |
1812-1888 |
| Levy, Newman (American lawyer, verse writer) |
1888-1966 |
| Levy, Uriah Phillips (American naval officer) |
1792-1862 |
| Levy-Bruhl, Lucien (French philosopher, sociologist) |
1857-1939 |
| Levy-Lawson, Edward (Eng. newspaper proprietor; son of Joseph) |
1833-1916 |
| Lewald, Fanny (German novelist) |
1811-1889 |
| Lewandowski, Louis (Polish cantor, chorus conductor, composer) |
1821-1894 |
| Lewanika (orig. Robosi or Lubosi) (Lozi king of Barotseland) |
c.1842-1916 |
| Lewes, George Henry (English philosopher, critic) |
1817-1878 |
| Lewin, Kurt (Prussian-born American social psychologist) |
1890-1947 |
| Lewin, Louis (German toxicologist, psychopharmacologist) |
1850-1929 |
| Lewis, Al (born Alexander Meister) (American actor) |
1910-2006 |
| Lewis, Alun (Welsh poet, short-story writer) |
1915-1944 |
| Lewis, Andrew (Irish-born American soldier) |
1720-1781 |
| Lewis, Clarence Irving (American philosopher) |
1883-1964 |
| Lewis, Clive Staples (English scholar, writer) |
1898-1963 |
| Lewis, Francis (Welsh-born American merchant, patriot) |
1713-1803 |
| Lewis, George (American musician) |
1900-1968 |
| Lewis, George (American musician) |
b.1952 |
| Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (English liberal statesman, writer) |
1806-1863 |
| Lewis, Gilbert Newton (American physical chemist) |
1875-1946 |
| Lewis, Harry Sinclair (American writer, social critic) |
1885-1951 |
| Lewis, Isaac Newton (American army officer, inventor) |
1858-1931 |
| Lewis, John Llewellyn (American labor leader) |
1880-1969 |
| Lewis, Joseph (American writer, teacher, atheist, freethinker) |
1889-1968 |
| Lewis, Matthew Gregory "Monk" (English novelist, dramatist) |
1775-1818 |
| Lewis, Meade Anderson "Lux" (American jazz pianist) |
1905-1964 |
| Lewis, Meriwether (American explorer with William Clark) |
1774-1809 |
| Lewis, Morgan (American jurist, politician; son of Francis) |
1754-1844 |
| Lewis, Oscar (American anthropologist) |
1914-1970 |
| Lewis, Percy Wyndham (English painter, writer) |
1884-1957 |
| Lewis, Richard (Dic Penderyn) (Welsh folk hero) |
c.1807-1831 |
| Lewis, Richard (American actor, comedian) |
b.1947 |
| Lewis, Sir William Arthur (St. Lucian-born British economist) |
1915-1991 |
| Lewys Glyn Cothi (aka Llywelyn y Glyn) (Welsh bard) |
fl. c.1447-1486 |
| Ley, James (1st Earl of Marlborough) (English judge) |
1550-1629 |
| Ley, Robert (German Nazi leader) |
1890-1945 |
| Ley, Willy (German-born American engineer, writer) |
1906-1969 |
| Leybourn, William (English mathematician) |
1626-1700? |
| Leyden, John (Scottish poet, Orientalist) |
1775-1811 |
| Leydig, Franz (German zoologist) |
1821-1908 |
| Leygues, Jean-Claude-Georges (French politician) |
1857-1933 |
| Leypoldt, Frederick (German-born Am. publisher, bibliographer) |
1835-1884 |
| Lezama Lima, Jose (Cuban poet, writer, essayist) |
1910-1976 |
| L'Herbier, Marcel (French film director) |
1888-1979 |
| L'Hermite, Francois "Tristan" (Fr. poet, playwright, novelist) |
1601-1655 |
| Lhevinne, Josef (Russian pianist; husband of Rosina) |
1874-1944 |
| Lhevinne, Rosina née Bessie (Russian pianist, teacher) |
1880-1976 |
| L'Hopital, Guillaume Francois Antoine Marquis de (French math.) |
1661-1704 |
| L'Hospital, Michel de (French jurist, politician) |
1507-1573 |
| Lhote, Andre (French painter, writer) |
1885-1962 |
| Li Ang (orig. Li Han) (Chinese emperor 826-840) |
809-840 |
| Liang Ch'en-yu (Chinese dramatist) |
1510-1580 |
| Liang Ch'i-ch'ao (Chinese scholar, revolutionary leader) |
1873-1929 |
| Liang K'ai (Chinese painter) |
c.1140-c.1210 |
| Liang Shiqiu (or Liang Shih-ch'iu) (Chinese writer, translator) |
1902-1987 |
| Li Ao (Chinese philosopher) |
d.c.844 |
| Liapchev, Andrei (Bulgarian politician) |
1866-1933 |
| Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistani statesman; prime minister 1947-51) |
1895-1951 |
| Libanius (Syrian-born Greek Sophist, rhetorician) |
314-393 |
| Libau, Andreas (Libavius) (Ger. physician, alchemist, chemist) |
c.1540-1616 |
| Libby, Willard Frank (American chemist; dev. carbon-14 dating) |
1908-1980 |
| Libedinsky, Yury Nikolayevich (Russian writer, playwright) |
1898-1959 |
| Liberace, Wladziu Valentino (American pianist) |
1919-1987 |
| Liberale da Verona (Veronese painter) |
c.1445-1526/29 |
| Liberi, Pietro "il Libertino" (Venetian painter) |
1614-1687 |
| Liberius (Pope 352-366) |
d.366 |
| Li Bo (or Li Po) (aka Li Taipo) (Chinese poet) |
701-762 |
| Li Che (reign title Chung Tsung) (Chinese emperor 683, 705-710) |
d.731 |
| Li Chih (reign title Kao Tsung) (Chinese emperor 649-683) |
628-683 |
| Li Ch'ing-chao (Chinese poet) |
1081-1141? |
| Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (German physicist, writer) |
1742-1799 |
| Lichtenstein, Roy (American artist) |
b.1923 |
| Licinius (Valerius Licinianus Licinius) (Roman emperor 308-324) |
d.325 |
| Lick, James (American financier, philanthropist) |
1796-1876 |
| Liddell, Henry George (English classical scholar) |
1811-1898 |
| Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry (English military scientist) |
1895-1970 |
| Liddon, Henry Parry (English theologian) |
1829-1890 |
| Liddy, George Gordon Battle "G. Gordon" (American author) |
b.1930 |
| Lidman, Sara (Swedish writer) |
b.1923 |
| Lidner, Bengt (Swedish poet) |
1757-1793 |
| Lidow, Eric (Lithuanian-born American engineer) |
b.1913 |
| Lie, Jonas Lauritz Idemil (Norwegian novelist, dramatist) |
1833-1908 |
| Lie, Marius Sophus (Norwegian mathematician) |
1842-1899 |
| Lie, Trygve Halvdan (Norwegian lawyer; UN secy.-gen. 1946-52) |
1896-1968 |
| Lieber, Francis (German-born American political scientist) |
1800-1872 |
| Lieberkuhn, Johann Nathaniel (German anatomist) |
1711-1756 |
| Liebermann, Carl Theodore (German chemist) |
1842-1914 |
| Liebermann, Max (German painter, etcher) |
1847-1935 |
| Lieberson, Lorraine née Hunt (American singer) |
1954-2006 |
| Liebig, Justus von (German analytical chemist) |
1803-1873 |
| Liebknecht, Karl (German Socialist leader; son of Wilhelm) |
1871-1919 |
| Liebknecht, Wilhelm (German journalist, politician) |
1826-1900 |
| Liebling, Abbott Joseph "A.J." (American newsman, columnist) |
1904-1963 |
| Liebmann, Otto (German philosopher) |
1840-1912 |
| Liebniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (German philosopher, math.) |
1646-1716 |
| Liebovitz, Annie (American photographer) |
b.1949 |
| Lieh-tzu (orig. Lieh Yuk'ou) (Chinese philosopher) |
4th cent. BC |
| Lietzmann, Hans (German church historian) |
1875-1942 |
| Lievens (or Lievensz, Livens), Jan (Dutch painter) |
1607-1674 |
| Lifar, Serge (Russian-born French choreographer, dancer) |
1905-1986 |
| Ligdan Khan (Last Mongol great khan 1604-1634) |
1591-1634 |
| Ligeti, Gyorgy Sandor (Transylvanian composer) |
1923-2006 |
| Light, Francis (English colonial administrator) |
c.1740-1794 |
| Lightfoot, Sir John (English Biblical scholar) |
1602-1675 |
| Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (English theologian) |
1828-1889 |
| Ligne, Charles-Joseph de (Belgian soldier, man of letters) |
1735-1814 |
| Ligorio, Pirro (Italian architect) |
c.1500-1583 |
| Liguori, Saint Alfonso Maria de' (Italian prelate) |
1696-1787 |
| Li He (or Li Ho) (Chinese poet) |
791-817 |
| Lihn, Enrique (Chilean poet, writer) |
1929-1988 |
| Li Hsiu-ch'eng (Chinese rebel) |
d.1864 |
| Li Hung-chang (Chinese statesman) |
1823-1901 |
| Lij Iyasu (Emperor of Ethiopia 1913-1917) |
1896-1935 |
| Li K'o-yung (Chinese general) |
d.908 |
| Li Kua (reign title Te Tsung) (Chinese emperor 780-805) |
742-805 |
| Lilburne, John (English leader of the Levelers) |
1614?-1657 |
| Liliencron, Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev von (German writer) |
1844-1909 |
| Lilienthal, Otto (German aeronautical engineer) |
1848-1896 |
| Liliuokalani (Lydia Paki Liliuokalani) (Hawaiian queen 1891-93) |
1838-1917 |
| Lillebakken, Johan Petter (pseud. J.P. Falkberget) (Norw. nov.) |
1879-1967 |
| Lillie, Frank Rattray (Canadian-born American zoologist) |
1870-1947 |
| Lillo, George (English dramatist) |
1693-1739 |
| Lilly, John Cunningham (American biologist) |
1915-2001 |
| Lilly, William (English astronomer) |
1602-1681 |
| Li Lung-chi (reign title Hsuan Tsung) (Chinese emperor 712-756) |
685-762 |
| Li Lung-mien (or Li Kung-lin) (Chinese painter) |
1049-1106 |
| Lily, William (English grammarian) |
1468?-1522 |
| Lima, Jorge de (Brazilian poet, writer) |
1895-1953 |
| Lima, Manuel dos Santos (Angolan writer, military leader) |
b.1935 |
| Lima Barreto, Afonso Henriques de (Braz. writer, social critic) |
1881-1922 |
| Liman von Sanders, Otto (German general) |
1855-1929 |
| Limbaugh, Rush Hudson III (American commentator) |
b.1951 |
| Limburg (or Limbourg), Pol (Belgian illuminator) |
1385?-1416? |
| Limburg, Hermann (Belgian illuminator; brother of Pol) |
1385?-1416? |
| Limburg, Jehanequin (Belgian illuminator; brother of Pol) |
1385?-1416? |
| Limon, Jose Arcadio (Mexican-born Am. dancer, choreographer) |
1908-1972 |
| Limonov, Eduard (b.Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko) (Russian poet) |
b.1943 |
| Limosin (or Limousin), Leonard (French enameler) |
c.1505-c.1577 |
| Linacre, Thomas (English Humanist, physician) |
c.1460-1524 |
| Linares, Jose Maria (Bolivian politician) |
1810-1861 |
| Lincoln, Abraham (16th U.S. president, 1861-1865) |
1809-1865 |
| Lincoln, Benjamin (American Revolutionary officer) |
1733-1810 |
| Lincoln, Mary Todd (American; wife of Abraham Lincoln) |
1818-1882 |
| Lincoln, Robert Todd (American lawyer; son of Abraham) |
1843-1926 |
| Lind, James (Scottish physician) |
1716-1794 |
| Lind, Jenny (orig. Johanna Maria) (Swedish soprano singer) |
1820-1887 |
| Lindbergh, Anne Spencer née Morrow (Am. author; wife of C.A.) |
b.1906 |
| Lindbergh, Charles August (b.Carl)(Swedish-born Am. politician) |
1859-1924 |
| Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Sr. (American aviator) |
1902-1974 |
| Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Jr. (American son of Anne, Charles) |
1930-1932 |
| Lindblad, Bertil (Swedish astronomer) |
1895-1965 |
| Lindblad, Rune (Swedish composer) |
1923-1991 |
| Linde, Carl Paul Gottfried von (German engineer) |
1842-1934 |
| Lindegren, Erik Johan (Swedish poet, translator) |
1910-1968 |
| Lindemann, Carl Louis Ferdinand von (German mathematician) |
1852-1939 |
| Lindenthal, Gustav (Austrian-born American civil engineer) |
1850-1935 |
| Lindet, Jean-Baptiste-Robert (French politician) |
1746-1825 |
| Lindgren, Astrid (Swedish writer; created Pippi Longstocking) |
b.1907 |
| Lindgren, Torgny (Swedish writer, poet) |
b.1938 |
| Lindgren, Waldemar (Swedish-born American geologist) |
1860-1939 |
| Lindley, John (English botanist, horticulturist) |
1799-1865 |
| Lindlet, William (English civil engineer) |
1808-1900 |
| Lindman, Salomon Arvid Achates (Swedish admiral, politician) |
1862-1936 |
| Lindner, Robert Mitchell (American psychoanalyst) |
1914-1956 |
| Lindo, Mark Prager (pseud. De Oude Heer Smits) (Dutch writer) |
1819-1879 |
| Lindsay, Arto (Brazilian musician) |
b.1953 |
| Lindsay (or Lyndsay), Sir David (Scottish poet) |
c.1490-c.1555 |
| Lindsay, David (Australian explorer) |
1856-1922 |
| Lindsay, Howard (American playwright, producer, actor) |
1889-1968 |
| Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel (American poet) |
1879-1931 |
| Lindsay, Norman Alfred William (Australian cartoonist, illus.) |
1879-1969 |
| Lindsey, Benjamin Burr (American jurist) |
1869-1943 |
| Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony ("Cordwainer Smith")(Am. writer) |
1913-1966 |
| Lingard, John (English historian) |
1771-1851 |
| Lingelbach, Jan (Dutch painter) |
1622-1674 |
| Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri (French lawyer, journalist) |
1736-1794 |
| Liniers, Santiago Antonio Maria de (Fr.-b. Span. naval officer) |
1753-1810 |
| Link, Edwin Albert (American inventor, businessman) |
1904-1981 |
| Linklater, Eric Robert Russell (Scottish novelist, dramatist) |
1899-1974 |
| Linklater, Richard (American filmmaker) |
b.1965 |
| Linkletter, Art (American television and radio host, writer) |
b.1912 |
| Linley, Thomas (English composer) |
1732-1795 |
| Linley, Thomas (English violinist, composer; son of Thomas) |
1756-1778 |
| Linne, Carl von (Carolus Linnaeus) (Swedish botanist) |
1707-1778 |
| Linnell, John (English painter) |
1792-1882 |
| Lin Piao (Chinese soldier, politician) |
1908-1971 |
| Lins, Osman (Brazilian writer, playwright) |
1924-1978 |
| Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van (Dutch traveler) |
1563-1611 |
| Lins do Rego Cavalcanti, Jose (Brazilian writer) |
1901-1957 |
| Lin Shu (Chinese translator) |
1852-1924 |
| Linstroth, Margaret née Williams "Peg" (Am. Creamettes model) |
1915-2004 |
| Linton, Eliza née Lynn (American novelist; wife of William) |
1822-1898 |
| Linton, Ralph (American anthropologist) |
1893-1953 |
| Linton, William James (Eng.-born Am. wood engraver, reformer) |
1812-1897 |
| Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese government official) |
1785-1850 |
| Linus, Saint (Pope 67-76/79) |
d.76/79 |
| Lin Yu-t'ang (Lin Yutang) (Chinese author, philologist) |
1895-1976 |
| Lionel of Antwerp (Duke of Clarence) (English prince) |
1338-1368 |
| Lionne, Hugues de (French diplomat) |
1611-1671 |
| Liotard, Jean-Etienne (Swiss painter) |
1702-1789 |
| Liouville, Joseph (French mathematician) |
1809-1882 |
| Lipchitz, Jacques (Latvian-born French sculptor) |
1891-1973 |
| Lipkin, Israel ben Ze'ev Wolf "Israel Salanter" (Lith. rabbi) |
1810-1883 |
| Li Peng (Chinese Communist leader 1987-) |
b.1928 |
| Lipmann, Fritz Albert (German-born American biochemist) |
1899-1986 |
| Li Po (literary name Li T'ai-po) (Chinese poet) |
701-762 |
| Lippershey, Hans (aka Jan Lippersheim) (Dutch spectacle maker) |
c.1570-c.1619 |
| Lippert, Felice Marks (Am. businesswoman;co-fd.Weight Watchers) |
1930-2003 |
| Lippi, Filippo (aka Fra Filippo Lippi) (Florentine painter) |
c.1406-1469 |
| Lippi, Filippo "Filippino" (Florentine painter; son of Filippo) |
c.1457-1504 |
| Lippi, Lorenzo (ps. Perlone Zipoli) (Florentine poet, painter) |
1606-1664 |
| Lippincott, Joshua Ballinger (American publisher) |
1813-1886 |
| Lippincott, Joshua Bertram (American publisher; son of Joshua) |
1857-1940 |
| Lippisch, Alexander Martin (German-born Am. aeronautical eng.) |
1894-1976 |
| Lippmann, Gabriel-Jonas (French physicist; inv. color photo.) |
1845-1921 |
| Lippmann, Walter (American journalist, author) |
1889-1974 |
| Lipps, Theodor (German philosopher) |
1851-1914 |
| Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius) (Flemish Humanist, philosopher) |
1547-1606 |
| Lips, Johann Heinrich (Swiss painter, engraver) |
1758-1817 |
| Lipscomb, William Nunn Jr. (American chemist) |
b.1919 |
| Lipsius, Richard Adelbert (German theologian) |
1830-1892 |
| Lipsky, Louis (American editor, Zionist leader) |
1876-1963 |
| Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone (British tea merchant, yachtsman) |
1850-1931 |
| Lisa, Manuel (American fur trader) |
1772-1820 |
| Lisboa, Antonio Francisco (Brazilian sculptor, architect) |
1738?-1814 |
| Liscano, Juan (Venezuelan writer, editor) |
b.1915 |
| Li Shang-yin (Chinese poet) |
813-858 |
| Li Shao-chun (Chinese philosopher) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Li Shih-chen (Chinese pharmacologist) |
1518-1593 |
| Li Shih-min (reign title T'ai Tsung) (Chinese emperor 626-649) |
600-649 |
| Lispector, Clarice (Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer, lawyer) |
1925-1977 |
| Lissajous, Jules-Antoine (French physicist) |
1822-1880 |
| Lissitzky, Eliezer "El" (Rus. painter, typographer, designer) |
1890-1941 |
| Li Ssu (Chinese minister of state) |
280?-208 BC |
| Li Ssu-hsun (Chinese painter) |
651-716 |
| List, Georg Friedrich (German-born American economist) |
1789-1846 |
| List, Siegmund Wilhelm Walther (German soldier) |
1880-1971 |
| Lista y Aragon, Alberto (Span. math., poet, critic, educator) |
1775-1848 |
| Lister, Joseph (English surgeon; founder of antiseptic surgery) |
1827-1912 |
| Lister, Joseph Jackson (English optician, wine merchant) |
1786-1869 |
| Lister, Samuel Cunliffe (1st Baron Masham) (English inventor) |
1815-1906 |
| Liston, Charles "Sonny" (American boxer) |
1917?-1970/71 |
| Liston, Robert (Scottish surgeon) |
1794-1847 |
| Liszt, Franz (Hungarian piano virtuoso, composer) |
1811-1886 |
| Li Ta-chao (Chinese Communist leader) |
1888-1927 |
| Li Tan (reign title Jui Tsung) (Chin. emperor 684-690,710-712) |
662-716 |
| Li T'ang (Chinese painter) |
c.1080-1130 |
| Litke, Fyodor Petrovich (Russian explorer, geographer) |
1797-1882 |
| Li Tsung-jen (Chinese general) |
1890-1969 |
| Little, Arthur Dehon (American chemical engineer) |
1863-1935 |
| Little, Charles Coffin (American publisher) |
1799-1869 |
| Littleton, Sir Thomas (English jurist, legal author) |
1422-1481 |
| Little Turtle (American Indian leader of Miami tribe) |
c.1752-1812 |
| Littlewood, John Edensor (English mathematician) |
1885-1977 |
| Littre, Alexis (French physician, anatomist) |
1654-1725 |
| Littre, Maximilien-Paul-Emile (Fr. lexicographer, philosopher) |
1801-1881 |
| Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich (Rus. Communist leader, diplomat) |
1876-1951 |
| Li Tzu-ch'eng (Chinese rebel leader) |
1605?-1645 |
| Liu An (literary name Huai-nan-tzu) (Chinese ruler, scholar) |
d.122 BC |
| Liu Ch'e (reign title Wi Ti) (Chinese emperor 140-87 BC) |
156-87 BC |
| Liu Ch'i (reign title Ching Ti) (Chinese emperor 156-140 BC) |
d.140 BC |
| Liu Chi (Chinese painter) |
1311-1375 |
| Liu Chin (Chinese politician) |
d.1510 |
| Liu Chuang (reign title Ming Ti) (Chinese emperor 58-76) |
29-76 |
| Liudger (or Ludger), Saint (Frisian prelate) |
744-809 |
| Liu E (aka Liu O) (Chinese novelist, mathematician) |
1857-1909 |
| Liu Heng (reign title Wen Ti) (Chinese emperor 179-157 BC) |
d.157 BC |
| Liu Hsiu (reign title Kuang Wi Ti) (Chinese emperor 25-57) |
4 BC-AD 57 |
| Liu K'un-i (Chinese politician) |
1830-1902 |
| Liu Pang (post. title Kao Tsu) (Chinese emperor 206-195 BC) |
256-195 BC |
| Liu Pei (Chinese emperor 221-223) |
162-223 |
| Liu Ping-i (reign title Hsuan Ti) (Chinese emperor 73-49 BC) |
d.49 BC |
| Liu Shao-chi (Chinese Communist politician) |
1898-1974 |
| Liu Shih (reign title Yuan Ti) (Chinese emperor 48-33 BC) |
75-33 BC |
| Liu Ta (reign title Chang Ti) (Chinese emperor 76-88) |
57-88 |
| Liutprand (or Luitprand) (King of the Lombards 712-744) |
d.744 |
| Liutprand (or Liudprand) of Cremona (Lombard prelate, hist.) |
c.922-c.972 |
| Liu Tsung-yuan (Chinese essayist, poet) |
773-819 |
| Liu Yuan (Chinese invader) |
d.310 |
| Liu Zongyuan (or Liu Tsung-yuan) (Chinese essayist, poet) |
773-819 |
| Lively, Penelope Margaret née Low (Egypt-born British writer) |
b.1933 |
| Livermore, Mary Ashton née Rice (American reformer) |
1820-1905 |
| Livesay, Dorothy Kathleen (Canadian poet) |
b.1909 |
| Livia Drusilla (aka Julia Augusta) (Roman empress) |
58 BC-AD 29 |
| Livings, Henry (British playwright) |
b.1929 |
| Livingston, Edward (American politician; brother of Robert R.) |
1764-1836 |
| Livingston, Gordon S. (American psychiatrist, writer) |
b.1938 |
| Livingston, Henry Brockholst (American jurist; son of William) |
1757-1823 |
| Livingston, Phillip (American merchant; grandson of Robert) |
1716-1778 |
| Livingston, Robert (Scottish-born American politician) |
1654-1728 |
| Livingston, Robert R. (American lawyer, politician) |
1746-1813 |
| Livingston, William (American lawyer; brother of Phillip) |
1723-1790 |
| Livingstone, David (Scottish missionary, explorer in Africa) |
1813-1873 |
| Livius Andronicus, Lucius (Roman poet, playwright) |
c.284-c.204 BC |
| Livy (Titus Livius) (Roman historian) |
59 BC-AD 17 |
| Liyong, Taban Io (Ugandan poet, writer, critic) |
b.1938 |
| Li Yu (aka Li Hou-chou) (Chinese emperor 961-975) |
937-978 |
| Li Yu (aka Li Liweng) (Chinese writer, essayist) |
1611-1680 |
| Li Yuan (reign title Kao Tsu) (Chinese emperor 618-626) |
565-635 |
| Li Yuan-hao (Tibetan ruler) |
11th cent. |
| Li Yuan-hung (Chinese politician) |
1864-1928 |
| Llorente, Juan Antonio (Spanish priest, historian) |
1756-1823 |
| Lloyd, Edward (English coffeehouse owner) |
fl. 1688-1713 |
| Lloyd, Harold Clayton (American film actor, producer) |
1894-1971 |
| Lloyd, Henry Demarest (American journalist) |
1847-1903 |
| Lloyd, Marie (orig. Matilda Wood) (English music-hall comedian) |
1870-1922 |
| Lloyd, Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn (Welsh writer) |
1906-1983 |
| Lloyd, William (English prelate) |
1627-1717 |
| Lloyd George, David (British politician; prime min. 1916-22) |
1863-1945 |
| Llull, Ramon (Catalan mystic, philosopher, poet, missionary) |
c.1235-1316 |
| Llwyd, Morgan (Welsh writer, Puritan preacher) |
1619-1659 |
| Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian mathematician) |
1792-1856 |
| Lobanov-Rostovsky, Aleksey Borisovich (Russian diplomat) |
1824-1896 |
| Lobel, Leon (American butcher, businessman) |
1928-2006 |
| Lobengula (Zulu king of the Matabele) |
c.1836-1894 |
| Lobkowitz, Wenzel Eusebius von (Bohemia politician) |
1609-1677 |
| Lobo, Jeronimo (Portuguese missionary) |
1595-1678 |
| Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (Italian violinist, composer) |
1695-1764 |
| Loch, Henry Brougham (British colonial administrator) |
1827-1900 |
| Lochner, Stefan (German painter) |
c.1400-1451 |
| Locke, Alain LeRoy (American educator, critic) |
1886-1954 |
| Locke, David Ross (pseud. Petroleum V. Nasby) (Am. journalist) |
1833-1888 |
| Locke, John (English philosopher) |
1632-1704 |
| Locke, Matthew (English composer) |
1621/22-1677 |
| Locke, Richard Adams (English-born American journalist) |
1800-1871 |
| Lockhart, John Gibson (Scottish editor, novelist, biographer) |
1794-1854 |
| Lockwood, Belva Ann née Bennett (American lawyer) |
1830-1917 |
| Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman (English astronomer) |
1836-1920 |
| Loczy, Lajos (Hungarian geologist) |
1849-1920 |
| Loder, Bernard Cornelius Johannes (Dutch jurist) |
1849-1935 |
| Lodge, David John (English writer, literary critic, editor) |
b.1935 |
| Lodge, Henry Cabot (American politician, author) |
1850-1924 |
| Lodge, Henry Cabot (American politician, diplomat) |
1902-1985 |
| Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (English physicist) |
1851-1940 |
| Lodge, Thomas (English poet, dramatist) |
1558-1625 |
| Loeb, Jacques (German-born American biophysiologist) |
1859-1924 |
| Loeb, James Morris (Am. banker, classicist, philanthropist) |
1867-1933 |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov (French-born American composer) |
1861-1935 |
| Loening, Grover Cleveland (American aircraft manufacturer) |
1888-1976 |
| Loerke, Oskar (German poet) |
1884-1941 |
| Loesser, Frank Henry (American composer, lyricist) |
1910-1969 |
| Loew, Marcu (American theater owner, motion-picture producer) |
1870-1927 |
| Loewe, Frederick (Austrian-born American composer) |
1901-1988 |
| Loewe, Johann Carl Gottfried (German composer) |
1796-1869 |
| Loewi, Otto (German-born American pharmacologist) |
1873-1961 |
| Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes (German bacteriologist) |
1852-1915 |
| Lofthuus, Christian Jensen (Norwegian peasant leader) |
1750-1797 |
| Lofting, Hugh John (English writer; created Dr. Doolittle) |
1886-1947 |
| Logan, George (American physician, politician) |
1753-1821 |
| Logan, James (Irish-born American public official, jurist) |
1674-1751 |
| Logan, James (Tah-gah-jute) (American Indian leader) |
c.1725-1780 |
| Logan, James Harvey (American lawyer, horticulturist) |
1841-1928 |
| Logan, James Richardson (British naturalist) |
d.1869 |
| Logan, John (Scottish clergyman, poet) |
1748-1788 |
| Logan, John Alexander (American soldier, politician) |
1826-1886 |
| Logan, Sir William Edmond (Canadian geologist) |
1798-1875 |
| Logau, Friedrich von (Salomon von Golaw) (German epigrammatist) |
1604-1655 |
| Logue, Christopher (English poet) |
b.1926 |
| Lohenstein, Daniel Caspar von (German writer) |
1635-1683 |
| Loisy, Alfred-Firmin (French linguist, biblical scholar) |
1857-1940 |
| Lo-Johansson, Karl Ivar (Swedish writer, social critic) |
1901-1990 |
| Lo Kuan-chung (Chinese novelist) |
c.1330-1400 |
| Lomax, Alan (American musicologist; son of John) |
1915-2002 |
| Lomax, John Avery (American folklorist) |
1875-1948 |
| Lomb, Henry (German-born American optician) |
1828-1908 |
| Lombard, Peter (Italian scholastic theologian) |
c.1100-c.1164 |
| Lombardi, Vincent Thomas "Vince" (American football coach) |
1913-1970 |
| Lombardo, Antonio (Italian sculptor; son of Pietro) |
c.1458-1516? |
| Lombardo, Guy Albert (Canadian-born American bandleader) |
1902-1977 |
| Lombardo, Pietro (Italian sculptor, architect) |
c.1435-1515 |
| Lombardo, Tullio (Italian sculptor; son of Pietro) |
c.1455-1532 |
| Lombroso, Cesare (Italian physician, criminologist) |
1836-1909 |
| Lomenie de Brienne, Etienne-Charles de (Fr. ecclesiastic, pol.) |
1727-1794 |
| Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (Rus. scientist, man of letters) |
1711-1765 |
| London, Fritz Wolfgang (German physicist) |
1900-1954 |
| London, John Griffith "Jack" (Am. novelist, short-story writer) |
1876-1916 |
| London, Meyer (Polish-born American Socialist, labor leader) |
1871-1926 |
| Long, Crawford Williamson (American surgeon) |
1815-1878 |
| Long, Earl Kemp (American politician; brother of Huey) |
1895-1960 |
| Long, Gabrielle Margaret Vere née Campbell (English novelist) |
1888-1952 |
| Long, Huey Pierce "the Kingfish" (American politician) |
1893-1935 |
| Long, James (American adventurer) |
c.1793-1822 |
| Long, John Luther (American writer) |
1861-1927 |
| Long, Stephen Harriman (American army officer, explorer) |
1784-1864 |
| Longacre, James Barton (American engraver) |
1794-1869 |
| Longchamp, William (English prelate) |
d.1197 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (American poet) |
1807-1882 |
| Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham (English theater patron) |
1902-1961 |
| Longhena, Baldassare (Venetian architect) |
1598-1682 |
| Longhi, Alessandro (Venetian painter, engraver; son of Pietro) |
1733-1813 |
| Longhi, Pietro (orig. surname Falca) (Venetian painter) |
1702-1785 |
| Longinus (Dionysius Longinus; Pseudo-Longinus) (Greek critic) |
1st cent. |
| Longinus, Cassius (Greek rhetorician, philosopher) |
c.220-273 |
| Longley, Michael (Irish poet) |
b.1939 |
| Longman, Thomas (English publisher) |
1699-1755 |
| Longman, Thomas (English publisher; nephew of Thomas) |
1730-1797 |
| Longman, Thomas (English publisher; son of Thomas Norton) |
1804-1879 |
| Longman, Thomas Norton (English pub.; son of Thomas 1699-1755) |
1771-1842 |
| Longman, Thomas Norton (English pub.; son of Thomas 1804-1879) |
1849-1930 |
| Longman, William (English publisher; son of Thomas Norton) |
1813-1877 |
| Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin (Am. clergyman, author, educator) |
1790-1870 |
| Longstreet, James (American Confederate general) |
1821-1904 |
| Longueville, Anne-Genevieve de (French noblewoman) |
1619-1679 |
| Longus (Greek writer) |
2nd/3rd cent. |
| Longwell, Chester Ray (American geologist) |
1887-1975 |
| Longworth, Nicholas (American politician) |
1869-1931 |
| Lonitzer, Adam (Lonicerus) (German botanist) |
1528-1586 |
| Lonnbohm, Armas Eino Leopold (pseud. Eino Leino) (Finnish poet) |
1878-1926 |
| Lonnrot, Elias (Finnish folklorist, philologist) |
1802-1884 |
| Lonsdale, Frederick (orig. Lionel F. Leonard)(Brit. playwright) |
1881-1954 |
| Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen née Yardley (Irish crystallographer) |
1903-1971 |
| Lonsdale, William (English geologist) |
1794-1871 |
| Loomis, Bernard (American toy marketer) |
1923-2006 |
| Loos, Adolph (Moravian-born Austrian architect) |
1870-1933 |
| Loos, Anita (American writer, scriptwriter) |
1893-1981 |
| Looy, Jacobus van (Dutch painter, novelist) |
1855-1930 |
| Lopes, Fernao (Portuguese historian) |
c.1380-c.1460 |
| Lopes, Manuel (Cape Verdean poet, writer, essayist) |
b.1907 |
| Lopes da Silva, Baltasar (Osvaldo Alcantara)(Cape Verdean poet) |
1907-1989 |
| Lopez, Barry Holstun (American writer) |
b.1945 |
| Lopez, Carlos Antonio (Paraguayan dictator 1844-1862) |
1790-1862 |
| Lopez, Francisco Solano (Paraguayan pres. 1862-70; son of C.A.) |
1827-1870 |
| Lopez, Jose Hilario (Colombian general, politician) |
c.1800-1869 |
| Lopez, Luis Carlos (Colombian poet) |
1883-1950 |
| Lopez Contreras, Eleazar (Venezuelan soldier, politician) |
1883-1973 |
| Lopez de Ayala, Pedro (Spanish polit., soldier, hist., writer) |
1332-1407 |
| Lopez de Ayala y Herrera, Adelardo (Spanish dramatist, polit.) |
1828-1879 |
| Lopez de Cardenas, Garcia (Spanish explorer with Coronado) |
fl. 1540 |
| Lopez de Segura, Ruy (Spanish bishop, writer on chess) |
16th cent. |
| Lopez Dominguez, Jose (Spanish general, politician) |
1829-1911 |
| Lopez Mateos, Adolfo (Mexican president 1958-1964) |
1910-1969 |
| Lopez Portillo y Pacheco, Jose (Mexican president 1976-1982) |
b.1920 |
| Lopez Pumarejo, Alfonso (Colombian president 1934-38, 1942-45) |
1886-1959 |
| Lopez Velarde, Ramon (Mexican poet, essayist) |
1888-1921 |
| Lopez y Fuentes, Gregorio (Mexican novelist) |
1895-1966 |
| Lorain, John (English-born American horticulturist) |
1753-1823 |
| Lorde, Audre Geraldine (aka Gamba Adisa) (Am. poet, essayist) |
1934-1992 |
| Loredan, Pietro (Venetian admiral) |
d.1439 |
| Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (Dutch physicist) |
1853-1928 |
| Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (Austrian-born German ethologist) |
1903-1989 |
| Lorenz, Ludwig (Danish physicist) |
1829-1891 |
| Lorenzana y Butron, Francisco Antonio (Spanish prelate) |
1722-1804 |
| Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (Italian painter) |
c.1290-1348 |
| Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (It. painter, teacher; bro. of Ambrogio) |
c.1280-c.1348 |
| Lorenzini, Carlo (pseud. Carlo Collodi) (Italian writer) |
1826-1890 |
| Lorenzo, Fiorenzo di (Umbrian painter) |
c.1445-c.1525 |
| Lorenzo Monaco (orig. Piero di Giovanni) (Italian painter) |
c.1370-c.1425 |
| Lorimer, George Horace (American editor) |
1867-1937 |
| Lorimer, James (Scottish legal philosopher) |
1818-1890 |
| Loris, Heinrich (aka Henricus Glareanus) (Swiss Humanist) |
1488-1563 |
| Loris-Melikov, Mikhail Tariyelovich (Rus. general, politician) |
1825-1888 |
| Lorraine, Henri de "Cadet de Perle" (French soldier) |
1601-1666 |
| Lorre, Peter (orig. Laszlo Loewenstein) (Hung.-born Am. actor) |
1904-1964 |
| Lortzing, Gustav Albert (German composer) |
1801-1851 |
| Loschmidt, Josef (Austrian chemist) |
1821-1895 |
| Lot, Ferdinand (French historian) |
1886-1952 |
| Lotf 'Ali Khan Zand (Persian ruler) |
1769-1794 |
| Lothair (King of France 954-986) |
941-986 |
| Lothair I (Holy Roman emperor 840-855) |
795-855 |
| Lothair II (or III) (German king; Holy Roman emperor 1125-1137) |
1075-1137 |
| Lothair II (King of Italy) |
d.950 |
| Lothair (aka Lothair II) (King of Lotharingia 855-869) |
835-869 |
| Lothrop, Harriett Mulford née Stone (American writer) |
1844-1924 |
| Lotichius Secundus, Petrus (b. Petrus Lotz) (German Humanist) |
1528-1560 |
| Lotka, Alfred (American biophysicist) |
1880-1949 |
| Lotti, Antonio (Italian composer) |
1667-1740 |
| Lotto, Lorenzo (Venetian painter) |
c.1480-1556 |
| Lotze, Rudolf Hermann (German philosopher) |
1817-1881 |
| Loubet, Emile-Francois (French politician; president 1899-1906) |
1838-1929 |
| Loudon, John Claudius (Scottish horticultural writer) |
1783-1843 |
| Louis of Nassau (Count of Nassau-Dietz) (Dutch soldier) |
1538-1574 |
| Louis, Joe (orig. Joseph Louis Barrow) (American boxer) |
1914-1981 |
| Louis, Morris (orig. Morris Bernstein) (American painter) |
1912-1962 |
| Louis, Pierre (pseud. Pierre Louys) (French poet, novelist) |
1870-1925 |
| Loukaris, Kyrillos (Cyril Lucaris) (Greek Orthodox prelate) |
1572-1638 |
| Loutherbourg, Philip James de (German-born British painter) |
1740-1812 |
| Louvet de Couvray, Jean-Baptiste (French politician, novelist) |
1760-1797 |
| Louw, Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk (South African poet, dramatist) |
1906-1970 |
| Love, Hough (English geophysicist) |
1863-1940 |
| Love, Michael Edward "Mike" (American musician; Beach Boy) |
b.1941 |
| Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (American writer) |
1890-1937 |
| Lovens, Paul (German musician) |
b.1949 |
| Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (German-born American philosopher) |
1873-1963 |
| Lovejoy, Elijah Parish (American abolitionist) |
1802-1837 |
| Lovelace, Lady Augusta Ada Byron (English computer programmer) |
1815-1851 |
| Lovelace, Earl (Trinidadian writer, playwright) |
b.1935 |
| Lovelace, Richard (English poet, soldier, Royalist) |
1618-1657 |
| Lovell, Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard (British radio astronomer) |
b.1913 |
| Lovell, Francis (English rebel) |
1454-1487? |
| Lovelock, John Edward "Jack" (New Zealand athlete) |
1910-1949 |
| Lovens, Paul (German musician) |
b.1949 |
| Lover, Samuel (Irish novelist, songwriter) |
1797-1868 |
| Lovett, Robert Morss (American educator, reformer) |
1870-1956 |
| Lovett, William (English Chartist leader) |
1800-1877 |
| Lovins, Amory Bloch (American physicist) |
b.1947 |
| Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil (Brit. cartoonist, caricaturist) |
1891-1963 |
| Low, Sir Hugh (English colonial administrator) |
1824-1905 |
| Low, Juliette Magill Kinzie née Gordon (Am. fdr. Girl Scouts) |
1860-1927 |
| Low, Seth (American merchant, politician, educator) |
1850-1916 |
| Lowden, Frank Orren (American politician) |
1861-1943 |
| Lowe, Sir Hudson (Irish-born British soldier) |
1769-1844 |
| Lowe, Robert (Viscount Sherbrooke) (English politician) |
1811-1892 |
| Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski (American aeronaut, inventor) |
1832-1913 |
| Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (Am. political scientist, educator) |
1856-1943 |
| Lowell, Amy Lawrence (American poet, critic, biographer) |
1874-1925 |
| Lowell, Francis Cabot (American industrialist) |
1775-1817 |
| Lowell, James Russell (American poet, essayist, diplomat) |
1819-1891 |
| Lowell, Percival (American astronomer; brother of Abbott, Amy) |
1855-1916 |
| Lowell, Robert Traill Spence (American poet) |
1917-1977 |
| Lowenheim, Leopold (German mathematician, educator) |
1878-1957 |
| Lower, Richard (English physician, physiologist) |
1631-1691 |
| Lowes, John Livingston (American educator, literary scholar) |
1867-1945 |
| Lowie, Robert Harry (Austrian-born American anthropologist) |
1883-1957 |
| Lowin, John (English actor) |
1576-1653 |
| Lowndes, William Thomas (English bookseller, bibliographer) |
1798-1843 |
| Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Boden (English writer, poet) |
1909-1957 |
| Lowth (or Louth), Robert (English prelate, scholar) |
1710-1787 |
| Loy, Mina (b. Mina Gertrude Lowy) (English poet, painter) |
1882-1966 |
| Loyd, Samuel (American puzzle-maker; invented Parcheesi) |
1841-1911 |
| Loyd, Samuel (American puzzle-maker; son of Samuel) |
d.1934 |
| Loynaz, Dulce Maria (Cuban poet, writer) |
b.1903 |
| Loyson, Charles (aka Pere Hyacinthe) (French religious) |
1827-1912 |
| Lu (Empress of China; wife of Liu Pang) |
d.180 BC |
| Lubbock, Sir John (English financier, author; son of Sir J.W.) |
1834-1913 |
| Lubbock, Sir John William (English astronomer, mathematician) |
1803-1865 |
| Lubecki, Ksawery Drucki (Russian official) |
1779-1846 |
| Luber (or Lieber), Thomas (Swiss theologian, physician) |
1524-1583 |
| Lubin, David (Polish-born American agriculturist) |
1849-1919 |
| Lubitsch, Ernst (German-born American motion-picture director) |
1892-1947 |
| Lubke, Heinrich (German politician) |
1894-1972 |
| Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (Spanish-born Roman poet) |
AD 39-65 |
| Lucas, Francois Edouard Anatole (French mathematician) |
1842-1891 |
| Lucas, Frank Laurence (English man of letters) |
1894-1967 |
| Lucas, Phil (American film producer, director) |
1942-2007 |
| Lucas van Leyden (aka Lucas Hugensz) (Dutch painter, engraver) |
1494-1533 |
| Luce, Ann Clare née Boothe (American diplomat, journalist) |
1903-1987 |
| Luce, Henry Robinson (Chinese-born American editor, publisher) |
1898-1967 |
| Luce, Stephen Bleecker (American naval officer) |
1827-1917 |
| Luchaire, Denis-Jean-Achille (French historian) |
1846-1908 |
| Lu Chi (Chinese poet, literary critic) |
261-303 |
| Lu Chiu-yuan (aka Lu Hsiang-shan) (Chinese philosopher) |
1139-1193 |
| Lucian (Syrian-born Greek satirist, rhetorician) |
c.120-180? |
| Lucian of Antioch, Saint (Syrian Christian theologian, martyr) |
c.240?-312 |
| Luciani, Sebastiano (aka Sebastiano del Piombo) (It. painter) |
c.1485-1547 |
| Lucifer Calaritanus (Sardinian prelate) |
d.c.371 |
| Lucilius, Gaius (Roman poet) |
c.180-c.102 BC |
| Lucretia (Lucrece) (Roman matron) |
d.c.509 BC |
| Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (Roman Epicurean poet) |
c.96-c.55/53 BC |
| Lucullus, Lucius Licinius (Roman general, epicure) |
c.117-58/56 BC |
| Lucy, Saint (Christian martyr) |
d.304 |
| Lucy, Richard de (English jurist) |
d.1179 |
| Lucy, Sir Thomas (English squire) |
1532-1600 |
| Lud (or Ludd), Ned (English laborer) |
fl. 1779 |
| Ludendorff, Erich Friedrich Wilhelm (Ger. general, politician) |
1865-1937 |
| Ludford, Nicholas (English composer) |
c.1485-c.1557 |
| Ludlow, Edmund (English Parliamentary leader) |
c.1617-1692 |
| Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (English social reformer) |
1821-1911 |
| Ludlow, Roger (English colonist in America) |
1590-1664? |
| Ludmilla (or Ludmila), Saint (Patron saint of Bohemia) |
c.860-921 |
| Ludwick, Christopher (German-born Am. Revolutionary leader) |
1720-1801 |
| Ludwig, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (German physiologist) |
1816-1895 |
| Ludwig, Emil (orig. surname Cohn) (German writer) |
1881-1948 |
| Ludwig, Jack Barry (Canadian writer, teacher) |
b.1922 |
| Ludwig, Otto (German writer, playwright, critic) |
1813-1865 |
| Lueger, Karl (Austrian politician) |
1844-1910 |
| Lufft, Hans "the Bible Printer" (German painter) |
1495-1584 |
| Lugalzaggisi (Lugal-Zaggisi) (Mesopotamian king c.2375-2350 BC) |
24th cent. BC |
| Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry (India-born Brit. col. admin.) |
1858-1945 |
| Lugeon, Maurice (French-born Swiss geologist) |
1870-1953 |
| Lugne-Poe, Aurelian-Marie (French actor, theatrical manager) |
1869-1940 |
| Lugones, Leopoldo (Argentinian poet, literary & social critic) |
1874-1938 |
| Lugosi, Bela (orig. Bela Ferenc Blasko) (Hung.-born Am. actor) |
1884-1956 |
| Luhan, Mabel née Ganson (aka Mabel Dodge Luhan) (Am. writer) |
1879-1962 |
| Luigi Amedeo (Duca D'Abruzzi) (Italian explorer, naval officer) |
1873-1933 |
| Luini, Bernardino (Italian painter) |
d.1532 |
| Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington (Brazilian politician) |
1869-1957 |
| Luitpold (Prince regent of Bavaria 1886-1912) |
1821-1912 |
| Lujan, Manuel Jr. (American polit.; Secy. of Interior 1989-93) |
b.1928 |
| Lu Ji (or Lu Chi) (Chinese poet, literary critic) |
261-303 |
| Lukacs, Gyorgy (Hungarian philosopher, literary critic) |
1885-1971 |
| Lukas, Paul (orig. surname Lukacs) (Hungarian-born Am. actor) |
1895-1971 |
| Lukasiewicz, Jan (Polish logician) |
1878-1956 |
| Lukin, Lionel (English coach-builder, inventor) |
1742-1834 |
| Luks, George Benjamin (American painter; member of The Eight) |
1867-1933 |
| Luli (Elulaios) (Phoenician king of cities Tyre & Sidon) |
fl. 705 BC |
| Lully, Jean-Baptiste (Italian-born French composer) |
1632-1687 |
| Lumholtz, Carl (Norwegian explorer; peyote report c.1892) |
1851-1922 |
| Lumiere, Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas (French chemist, inventor) |
1862-1954 |
| Lumiere, Louis-Jean (French co-inv. cinematograph with Auguste) |
1864-1948 |
| Lummer, Otto Richard (German physicist) |
1860-1925 |
| Lummis, Charles Fletcher (American author, editor) |
1859-1928 |
| Lumumba, Patrice Hemery (Zaire politician) |
1925-1961 |
| Luna, Alvaro de (Spanish politician) |
c.1390-1453 |
| Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich (Russian Communist leader) |
1875-1933 |
| Lunalilo, William C. (King of Hawaiian islands 1873-1874) |
1832-1874 |
| Luna y Arellano, Tristan de (Spanish explorer with Coronado) |
1510-1573 |
| Lundeberg, Christian (Swedish industrialist, politician) |
1842-1911 |
| Lundkvist, Artur Nils (Swedish poet, writer, essayist) |
1906-1991 |
| Lundy, Benjamin (American abolitionist) |
1789-1839 |
| Lunghi (or Longhi, Longo), Martino the Elder (It. architect) |
d.1591 |
| Lunghi, Martino the Younger (Italian architect; son of Martino) |
1602-1657 |
| Lunghi, Onorio (Italian architect; son of Martino) |
1569-1619 |
| Lunn, Sir Arnold Henry Moore (India-born British skier) |
1888-1974 |
| Lunt, Alfred (American actor; husband of Lynn Fontanne) |
1893-1977 |
| Lupescu, Magda (orig. surname Wolff) (Romanian adventurer) |
1896?-1977 |
| Lupino, Barry (English pantomime, musical comic; son of George) |
1884-1962 |
| Lupino, George (English clown) |
1853-1932 |
| Lupino, Stanley (English actor, producer; son of George) |
1894-1942 |
| Lupino, Thomas Frederick (English scenic artist, dancer) |
1749-1845 |
| Luppino, George William (Eng. singer, reciter, puppet master) |
1632-1693 |
| Lupton, Thomas Goff (English mezzotint engraver) |
1791-1873 |
| Lu Pu-wei (Chinese politician) |
d.235 BC |
| Lurcat, Jean (French painter, tapestry designer) |
1892-1966 |
| Luria, Isaac ben Solomon "ha-Ari" (Palestinian Hebrew mystic) |
1534-1572 |
| Luria, Salvador Edward (Italian-born American geneticist) |
1912-1991 |
| Lurie, Alison (American writer, teacher) |
b.1926 |
| Lurton, Horace Harmon (American Supreme Court Justice 1910-14) |
1844-1914 |
| Lussier, Rene (Canadian musician) |
b.1957 |
| Lussy, Melchior (Swiss soldier, religious promoter) |
1529-1606 |
| Lutero, Battista "Battista Dossi" (Italian painter) |
d.1548 |
| Lutero (or Luteri), Giovanni "Dosso Dossi" (Italian painter) |
1479?-1542 |
| Lutfi as-Sayyid, Ahmad (Egyptian lawyer, journalist) |
1872-1954 |
| Luther, Hans (German politician) |
1879-1962 |
| Luther, Martin (German religious reformer) |
1483-1546 |
| Luther, Seth (American reformer) |
1790?-1850? |
| Luthuli, Albert John Mvumbi (Rhodesian-b. S. African reformer) |
1898-1967 |
| Luttrell, Henry (English society wit, poet) |
c.1765-1851 |
| Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (English architect) |
1869-1944 |
| Lutzow, Adolf von (German general) |
1782-1834 |
| Luxemburg, Rosa (Polish-born German Socialist agitator) |
1870-1919 |
| Lu Xun (or Lu Hsun) (pseud. of Zhou Shuren) (Chinese writer) |
1881-1936 |
| Luyken (or Luiken), Jan (or Johannes)(Dutch poet, lithographer) |
1649-1712 |
| Lu You (or Lu Yu; pseudonym Fangweng) (Chinese poet, writer) |
1125-1210 |
| Luzan Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea, Ignacio (Spanish writer) |
1702-1754 |
| Luzi, Mario (Italian poet, literary critic, senator-for-life) |
1914-2005 |
| Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim (Italian Kabbalist, poet) |
1707-1747 |
| Luzzatto, Samuel David (aka Shedal) (Italian scholar) |
1800-1865 |
| Lvov, Aleksey Fyodorovich (Russian composer) |
1798-1870 |
| Lvov, Georgy Yevgenyevich (Russian politician) |
1861-1925 |
| Lwoff, Andre-Michael (French microbiologist) |
1902-1994 |
| Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich (Russian composer) |
1855-1914 |
| Lyapunov, Aleksander Mikhailovich (Russian math., physicist) |
1857-1918 |
| Lyautey, Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve (French soldier, col. admin.) |
1854-1934 |
| Ly Bon (reign name Li Nam-Viet De Bon) (Vietnamese ruler) |
d.549 |
| Lycon (Greek philosopher; head of Peripatetic school 270-226) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Lycophron of Chalcis (Greek poet, scholar) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Lycurgus (Spartan lawgiver) |
9th cent. BC |
| Lycurgus (Athenian orator, financier) |
c.390-324 BC |
| Lydekker, Richard (English naturalist, geologist) |
1849-1915 |
| Lydgate, John (English poet, Benedictine monk) |
c.1370-c.1450 |
| Lydon, John (Johnny Rotten, John Joseph Lydon) (Brit. musician) |
b.1956 |
| Lydon, Susan née Gordon (American writer, editor) |
1943-2005 |
| Lyell, Sir Charles (Scottish-born British geologist) |
1797-1875 |
| Lykken, David Thoreson (Am. psychologist; polygraph test exp.) |
1928-2006 |
| Lyly, John (English author, poet, dramatist) |
1554?-1606 |
| Lyman, Theodore (American physicist) |
1874-1954 |
| Lynch, Benito (Argentinian writer) |
1885-1951 |
| Lynch, Charles (American magistrate; source of word "lynch") |
1736-1796 |
| Lynch, David Keith (Am. filmmaker, painter, Eagle Scout) |
b.1946 |
| Lynch, John Roy (American lawyer, politician, army officer) |
1847-1939 |
| Lynch, Thomas (American planter, patriot) |
1749-1779 |
| Lynd, Helen née Merrell (American sociologist; wife of Robert) |
1896-1982 |
| Lynd, Robert Staughton (American sociologist; husband of Helen) |
1892-1970 |
| Lynd, Sarah née Dryhurst (English poet) |
1888-1952 |
| Lynen, Feodor Felix Konrad (German biochemist) |
1911-1979 |
| Lyon, Corneille de (Dutch-born French painter) |
c.1500-1574? |
| Lyon, Mary Mason (American educator) |
1797-1849 |
| Lyon, Nathaniel (American army officer) |
1818-1861 |
| Lyonet, Pierre (Dutch entomologist) |
1706-1789 |
| Lyons, James Leroy "Jimmy" (American musician) |
1933-1986 |
| Lyons, Joseph Aloysius (Australian prime minister 1931-1939) |
1879-1939 |
| Lyot, Bernard-Ferdinand (French astronomer) |
1897-1952 |
| Lyotard, Jean-Francois (French philosopher) |
b.1924 |
| Lysander (Spartan naval & military commander) |
d.395 BC |
| Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (Soviet biologist, agronomist) |
1898-1976 |
| Lysias (Athenian orator) |
c.445-380? BC |
| Lysias (Syrian general) |
d.162 BC |
| Lysimachus (Macedonian general under Alexander the Great) |
c.355-281 BC |
| Lysippus (Greek sculptor) |
4th cent. BC |
| Lysis of Tarentum (Greek philosopher) |
4th cent. BC |
| Lyttelton, George (English politician, man of letters) |
1709-1773 |
| Lyttle, Thomas (American publisher, editor) |
b.1958/1959 |
| Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (Eng. nov., polit.) |
1803-1873 |
| Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (English politician, poet) |
1831-1891 |