Terms from Kinshasa to Lime (chemistry)
- Kinshasa (formerly Belgian Léopoldville (to 1964))
- Kinship
- Kintai Bridge
- Kintyre
- Kip(choge) Keino Biography (1940– )
- Kirby Benedict Biography (1810–74)
- Kirby Puckett Biography (1960–2006)
- Kirchenstaat
- Kirchentag
- Kirchhoff's Laws
- Kiribati
- Kiritimati (Eng Christmas Island)
- Kirk Douglas Biography (1916– ) (originally Issur Danielovitch Demsky)
- Kirkcaldy
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan Biography (1813–78)
- Kirksville
- Kirkwall
- Kirlian Photography
- Kirov Ballet (officiallythe Mariinsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet)
- Kirriemuir
- Kirsten Flagstad Biography (1895–1962)
- Kisalföld (Eng Little Plain)
- Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville (to 1966))
- Kishinev (Romanian Chisinau)
- Kislovodsk
- Kit
- Kit Carson Biography (1809–68) (popular name of Christopher Carson)
- Kit-Cat Club
- Kit-cat Portrait
- Kita-Kyushu
- Kite (ornithology)
- Kite (recreation)
- Kithara
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Kittiwake
- Kitty Godfree Biography (1896–1998) (popular name of Kathleen Godfree)
- Kitty Wells Biography (1919– ) (originally Muriel Ellen Deason)
- Kitwe
- Kitzbühel
- Kiva
- Kivu, Lake
- Kiwi
- Kiwi Fruit
- Kizil Irmak ((Turkish ‘red river’)ancient Halys)
- Kjeld Abell Biography (1901–61)
- Kjölen Mountains (or Kolen Mountains)
- Klagenfurt
- Klaipeda (formerly Memel)
- Klassik
- Klaus (Emil Julius) Fuchs Biography (1912–88)
- Klaus Barbie Biography (1913–91) (known as the Butcher of Lyon)
- Klaus Johann Groth Biography (1819–99)
- Klaus Kinski Biography (1926–91) (originally Nikolaus Gunther Naksznski)
- Klaus Maria Von Brandauer Biography (1944– )
- Klaus Roehler Biography (1926– )
- Klaus Störtebeker Biography (?–1401)
- Klaus Von Dohnanyi Biography (1928– )
- Klaus Von Klitzing Biography (1943– )
- Klaus Voswinckel Biography (1943– )
- Klauwaerts Or Clauwaerts
- Kleine Luyden (Eng Little People)
- Kleist-Preis
- Klement Gottwald Biography (1896–1953)
- Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Biography (1881–1969)
- Klipspringer
- Klondike Gold Rush
- Klosterneuburg
- Klosters
- Kluane
- Klystron
- Knapweed
- Knaz (Prince) Barclay De Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich Biography (1761–1818)
- Knee
- Knesset
- Knight
- Knight Bachelor (KB)
- Knights Of Labor
- Knightstown
- Knitting
- Knocking
- Knossos
- Knot (ornithology)
- Knot (physics)
- Knotgrass
- Know-Nothing Movement
- Knowledge-based System
- Knoxville
- Knud (Johan Victor) Rasmussen Biography (1879–1933)
- Knut Hamsun Biography (1859–1952) (pseudonym of Knud Pedersen)
- Knute (Kenneth) Rockne Biography (1888–1931)
- Knyaz (Prince) Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich Biography (1842–1921)
- Knyaz (Prince) Kutuzov, Mikhail Ilarionovich Biography (1745–1813)
- Koala
- Koalitionskriege
- Kob
- Kobe
- Koblenz (Eng Coblenzancient Confluentes)
- Kobo Abe Biography (1924–93)
- Kodiak Island
- Kofi (Atta) Annan Biography (1938– )
- Kofun
- Koh-i-noor ((Persian ‘mountain of light’))
- Kohlrabi
- Koichi Tanaka Biography (1959– )
- Kola Or Cola
- Kola Peninsula (Russ Kol'skiy Poluostrov)
- Kolhapur
- Kolyma
- Kolyma, River
- Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD)
- Komodo
- Komodo Dragon
- Kompong Som Or Kampong Saom
- Komsomol
- Kon Tiki
- Kongo
- Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger (KNIL)
- Konkretismus
- Konrad (Emil) Bloch Biography (1912–2000)
- Konrad (Zacharias) Lorenz Biography (1903–89)
- Konrad Adenauer Biography (1876–1967)
- Konrad Henlein Biography (1898–1945)
- Konrad I Biography (?–918) (Eng Conrad)
- Konrad II Biography (c.990–1039) (Eng Conrad)
- Konrad III Biography (1093/4–1152) (Eng Conrad)
- Konrad IV Biography (1228–54) (Eng Conrad)
- Konrad Von Würzburg Biography (c.1225–87)
- Konrad Weiß Biography (1880–1940)
- Konrad Witz Biography (c.1400–c.1445)
- Konrad Zuse Biography (1910–95)
- Konradiner
- Konstantin Dmitryevitch Balmont Biography (1867–1943)
- Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Biography (1857–1935)
- Konstantin Eduardovitch Ziolkovsky Biography (1857–1935)
- Konstantin Fehrenbach Biography (1852–1926)
- Konstantin Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov Biography (1915–79)
- Konstantin Rokossovsky Biography (1896–1968)
- Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Biography (1911–85)
- Konstantinos Karamanlis Biography (1907–98) (also spelled Caramanlis)
- Konya (ancient Iconium)
- Kookaburra
- Koos Van Zomeren Biography (1946– )
- Korczak Ziolkowski Biography (1908–82)
- Korea, North
- Korea, South Or Korea
- Korean
- Korean War
- Kornelia Ender Biography (1958– )
- Koror
- Korçë
- Kosciuszko, Mount
- Koshaku (Marquess) Togo, Heihachiro Biography (1847–1934)
- Kosher
- Kosovo ((Serbian)Kosova (Albanian))
- Kosrae (formerly Kusaie)
- Kotah
- Koto
- Kotor
- Koumiss Or Kumiss
- Kourou
- Kowloon (also Jiulong)
- Koyota Iwasaki Biography (1879–1945)
- Kozhikode (formerly Calicut)
- Košice (Ger KaschauHung Kassa)
- Kraft Process
- Krait
- Krajina
- Krakatoa
- Kraków Or Cracow (Ger Krakauancient Cracovia)
- Krasnoyarsk
- Kray Brothers
- Krebs Cycle
- Krefeld
- Kreisauer Kreis
- Kremlin
- Krill
- Krishna
- Krishna Or Kistna, River
- Kriss (Kezie Uche-Chukwu Duru) Akabusi Biography (1958– )
- Kristallnacht (also known as Reichskristallnact)
- Kristian Birkeland Biography (1867–1917)
- Kristianstad
- Krisztina Egerszegi Biography (1974– )
- Kru
- Kruger National Park
- Krugerrand
- Krypton
- Krzysztof Penderecki Biography (1933– )
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kuala Belait
- Kuala Lumpur
- Kublai Khan Biography (1214–94)
- Kudu Or Koedoe
- Kufa
- Kuiper Belt
- Kulaks
- Kulturkampf
- Kultuurkamer, De Nederlandse (Dutch Netherlands Chamber of Culture)
- Kumasi (known as Garden CityCity of the Golden Stool)
- Kumquat Or Cumquat
- Kung Fu
- Kunlun Shan (or K'un-lun Shan)
- Kunming Or K'un-ming
- Kurdistan Or Kordestan
- Kurds
- Kurfürsten
- Kurgan Culture
- Kuril Islands (Russ Kurilskiye Ostrova)
- Kurt (Ernst Karl) Schumacher Biography (1895–1953)
- Kurt (Friedrich) Gödel Or Goedel Biography (1906–78)
- Kurt (Jr) Vonnegut Biography (1922– )
- Kurt (Lidell) Schmoke Biography (1949– )
- Kurt (Matthias Robert Martin) Hahn Biography (1886–1974)
- Kurt Alder Biography (1902–58)
- Kurt Beck Biography (1949– )
- Kurt Biedenkopf Biography (1930– )
- Kurt Eisner Biography (1867–1919)
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger Biography (1904–88)
- Kurt Huber Biography (1893–1943)
- Kurt Jooss Biography (1901–79)
- Kurt Kluge Biography (1887–1940)
- Kurt Koffka Biography (1886–1941)
- Kurt Lewin Biography (1890–1947)
- Kurt O Friedrichs Biography (1901–82)
- Kurt Russell Biography (1951– )
- Kurt Schwitters Biography (1887–1948)
- Kurt Sontheimer Biography (1928–2005)
- Kurt Tucholsky Biography (1890–1935) (pseudonyms Kaspar HauserPeter PanterTheobold TigerIgnaz Wrobel)
- Kurt Von Schleicher Biography (1882–1934)
- Kurt Von Schuschnigg Biography (1897–1977)
- Kurt Waldheim Biography (1918– )
- Kurt Weill Biography (1900–50)
- Kuru
- Kush
- Kutch, Rann Of (also spelled Kachchor Cutch)
- Kutiyattam
- Kuwait
- Kuwait City (Arabic al-Kuwaytformerly Qurein)
- Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin Biography (1878–1939)
- Kuznets Basin
- Kwakiutl
- Kwame Nkrumah Biography (1909–72)
- KwaNdebele
- Kwang-Chih Chang Biography (1931– )
- Kwashiorkor
- KwaZulu Natal
- Kylie Minogue Biography (1968– )
- Kyoga, Lake
- Kyogen
- Kyoto
- Kyoto Protocol
- Kyra Nichols Biography (1958– )
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kyung-Wha Chung Biography (1948– )
- Kyushu
- Kyzyl-Kum (Russ Peski Kyzylkum)
- Kárpathos (Ital Scarpantoancient Carpathus)
- Käthe Kollwitz Biography (1867–1945) (née Schmidt)
- Kékes, Mount
- Kópavogur
- Kölner Kirchenstreit
- Köseg
- Köthen
- Kühn, August Biography (1936– ) (originally Rainer Zwing)
- L'Abbé Prévost, (Antoine François) Biography (1697–1763)
- L'Anse Aux Meadows
- L'Hôpital, Michel De Biography (c.1503–73)
- L'IDHEC
- L'École Nationale Superieure Louis Lumiere (ENSLL)
- L(afayette) Ron(ald) Hubbard Biography (1911–86)
- L(aurence) S(tephen) Lowry Biography (1887–1976)
- L(awrence) Quincy Mumford Biography (1903–82)
- L(awrence) Valentine Worthington Biography (1920– )
- L(azarus) L(udwig) Zamenhof Biography (1859–1917) (pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto)
- L(eon) L(enwood) Bean Biography (1872–1967)
- L(eopold Charles Maurice) S(tennett) Amery Biography (1873–1955)
- L(eslie) C(larence) Dunn Biography (1893–1974)
- L(eslie) P(oles) Hartley Biography (1895–1972)
- L(ouis) L(eon) Thurstone Biography (1887–1955)
- L(ouis) S(eymour) B(azett) Leakey Biography (1903–72)
- L(ucy) M(aud) Montgomery Biography (1874–1942)
- L-dopa Or Levodopa
- La Argentina Biography (1890–1936) (popular name of Antonia Mercé)
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- La Paz
- La Plata
- La Scala (or Teatro Alla Scala (Ital ‘theatre at the stairway’))
- La Taille Biography (c.1540–c.1607)
- La Tène
- La Venta
- Labelled Compound
- Labelling Theory
- Labour / Labor
- Labour / Labor Day
- Labour / Labor Theory Of Value
- Labour Party (UK)
- Labrador
- Labrador Retriever
- Labrador Sea
- Laburnum
- Lac Insect
- Lace
- Lacedaemon
- Lacerta ((Lat ‘lizard’))
- Lacewing
- Lachine
- Lachlan (Keith) Murdoch Biography (1971– )
- Lachlan Macquarie Biography (1761–1824)
- Lachlan River
- Laconia
- Lacquer
- Lacquer Tree
- Lacrosse
- Lactantius Biography (c.240–c.320) (in full Lucius Cae(ci)lius Firmianus Lactantius)
- Lactation
- Lactic Acid
- Lactone
- Lactose
- Lactose Intolerance
- Ladislao Of Anjou Biography (1377–1414) (known as the Magnanimous)
- Ladoga, Lake (Russ Ozero LadozhskoyeFinnish Laatokka)
- Lady Abigail Masham Biography (?–1734) (née Hill)
- Lady Antonia Fraser Biography (1932– ) (née Pakenham)
- Lady Bird Johnson Biography (1912– ) (popular name of Claudia Alta Johnsonnée Taylor)
- Lady Chapel
- Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber Biography (1812–95) (née Bertie)
- Lady Eleanor Butler Biography (1745–1829)
- Lady Evelyn Barbirolli Biography (1911– ) (née Rothwell)
- Lady Godiva Biography (11th-c)
- Lady Gregory, Isabella Augusta Biography (1852–1932) (née Persse)
- Lady Grizel Baillie Biography (1665–1746) (née Hume)
- Lady Hamilton, Emma Biography (c.1765–1815) (née Emily Lyon)
- Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope Biography (1776–1839)
- Lady Jane Grey Biography (1537–54)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Biography (1689–1762) (née Pierrepont)
- Lady Megan Lloyd-George (of Dwyfor) Biography (1902–66)
- Lady Phyllis Dorothy Cilento Biography (1894–1987) (née McGlew)
- Lady Plowden, Bridget Hortia Biography (1907–2000) (née Richmond)
- Lady Ritchie, Anne Isabella Biography (1837–1919)
- Lady Street, Jessie (Mary Grey) Biography (1889–1970)
- Lady Wilde, Jane Francisca Biography (1826–96) (née Elgeepseudonym Speranza)
- Lady's Mantle
- Lady's Slipper
- Ladybird
- Ladysmith, Siege Of
- Laelius Socinus Biography (1525–62) (Ital Lelio (Francesco Maria) Sozini)
- Laetoli
- Laetrile
- Lafayette McLaws Biography (1821–97)
- Lagomorph
- Lagoon
- Lagos
- Lagrangian
- Lagrangian Points
- Laguna, La
- Lahore
- Lai Or Lay
- Laissez-faire ((Fr ‘let do’))
- Laius
- Lajos Kossuth Biography (1802–94)
- Lake
- Lake Charles
- Lake District
- Lake Placid
- Lake Poets
- Lakeland Terrier
- Lakshadweep Islands (formerly Laccadive Islands (to 1973))
- Lakshmi
- Lal (Bahadur) Shastri Biography (1904–66)
- Lale Andersen Biography (1905–72) (originally Lise-Lotte Helene Berta Beulnée Bunnenberg)
- Lalibela Churches
- Lalla Romano Biography (1909–2001) (popular name of Graziella Romano)
- Lamaism
- Lambert H Hitchcock Biography (1795–1852)
- Lambert Sigisbert Adam Biography (1700–59)
- Lambert Simnel Biography (c.1475–c.1535)
- Lamberto Dini Biography (1931– )
- Lambeth Conferences
- Lamentations (of Jeremiah)
- Lamian War
- Lammas
- Lammergeier
- Lamp Shell
- Lamprey
- Lanai
- Lancashire
- Lancaster (UK)
- Lancaster House Agreement
- Lancaster, House Of
- Lance (Jerome) Taylor Biography (1940– )
- Lance Armstrong Biography (1971– )
- Lancelot Andrewes Biography (1555–1626)
- Lancelot Brown Biography (1715–83) (known as Capability Brown)
- Lancelot Hogben Biography (1895–1975)
- Lancelot, Sir (or Launcelot du Lac)
- Lancet
- Land Acts, Irish
- Land Crab
- Land League
- Land Registration
- Land's End (ancient Bolerium)
- Landesherrschaft (also known as LandesherrlichkeitLandeshoheitTerritorialhoheit)
- Landing Craft
- Landraad
- Landrace
- Landscape Gardening
- Landscape Painting
- Landsheerlijkheid (Eng sovereignty)
- Landsmannschaften
- Landstorm Nederland
- Landvoogd (Eng governor/viceroy)
- Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (LPG)
- Lanford Wilson Biography (1937– )
- Lanfranc Biography (c.1005–89)
- Lang(ley) George Hancock Biography (1909–92)
- Langdon Cheves Biography (1776–1857)
- Language
- Language Isolates
- Language Laboratory
- Languedoc
- Langur
- Lanner Falcon
- Lanolin
- Lansana Conte Biography (c.1945– )
- Lansing
- Lanternfish
- Lanthanides (or rare earth elements)
- Lanzarote
- Lanzhou (Lan-chouor Lanchow)
- Lao She Biography (1899–1966) (also known as Shu Ching-chün)
- Laocoon
- Laoighis, Laois (or Leix [layks]formerly Queen's County)
- Laos
- Laozi Biography (?6th-c BC) (also spelled Lao-tzu or Lao-tse (‘Old Master’))
- Lapis Lazuli
- Lapita People
- Lapiths
- Lapland (Swed LapplandFinn Lapin Lääni)
- Lapp
- Laptop Computer
- Lapwing
- Laramie
- Larch
- Lard
- Lares
- Larisa Semyonovna Latynina Biography (1934– )
- Lark
- Larkspur
- Larnaca (Gr LarnaxTurkish LarnakaIskele)
- Larry (Jeff) McMurtry Biography (1936– )
- Larry (Joe) Bird Biography (1956– )
- Larry Adler Biography (1914–2001) (popular name of Lawrence Cecil Adler)
- Larry Aldrich Biography (1906–2001) (originally Larry Orlevitch)
- Larry Fishburne Biography (1961– ) (popular name of Laurence John Fishburne III)
- Larry Holmes Biography (1949– ) (nickname the Easton Assassin)
- Larry King Biography (1933– ) (originally Lawrence Harvey Zeiger)
- Larry Rivers Biography (1923–2002) (originally Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg)
- Larry Sitsky Biography (1934– )
- Larry Tisch Biography (1923–2003) (popular name of Laurence A(lan) Tisch)
- Lars Levi Laestadius Biography (1800–61)
- Lars Onsager Biography (1903–76)
- Lars Porsenna Biography (6th-c BC)
- Larva
- Laryngitis
- Larynx
- Las Campanas Observatory
- Las Cruces
- Las Palmas (de Gran Canaria)
- Las Vegas ((Span ‘the meadows’))
- Lascaux
- Lascelles Abercrombie Biography (1881–1938)
- Laser
- Laser Cooling
- Laser Mass Spectrometer
- Laser Printer
- Laser Scanning
- Laser Typesetter
- Lassa Fever
- Last Supper
- Lastenausgleich
- Lata Mangeshkar Biography (1928– )
- Latent Heat
- Latent Image
- Laterality Or Lateralization
- Lateran Church Of St John
- Lateran Councils
- Lateran Treaty
- Laterite
- Latex
- Lathe
- Lathyrism
- Latin America
- Latin Literature
- Latin-American Free Trade Association (LAFTA)
- Latin-American Literature
- Latinus
- Latitude And Longitude
- Latium
- Lattice Energy
- Latvia (official name Republic of LatviaLatvian LatviyaRuss Latviskaya)
- Laudanum
- Launceston
- Launch Opportunity
- Launch Vehicle
- Launch Window
- Laura (Dewey) Bridgman Biography (1829–89)
- Laura (Sweedler) Dean Biography (1945– )
- Laura Ashley Biography (1925–85) (née Mountney)
- Laura Flessel Biography (1971– )
- Laura Keene Biography (?1820–73) (originally Mary Frances Moss)
- Laura Riding Biography (1901–91) (née Reichenthalmarried names Gottschalk and Jacksonpseudonyms Madeleine Vara and Barbara Rich)
- Laura Welch Bush Biography (1946– )
- Laura Wilder Biography (1867–1957) (née Ingalls)
- Laurance (Spelman) Rockefeller Biography (1910–2004)
- Laurasia
- Laurel
- Laurel
- Laurel And Hardy
- Lauren Bacall Biography (1924– ) (originally Betty Joan Perske)
- Laurence (Owen Vine) Gandar Biography (1915–98)
- Laurence Eusden Biography (1688–1730)
- Laurence Gronlund Biography (1846–99)
- Laurence H(enry) Tribe Biography (1941– )
- Laurence Housman Biography (1865–1959)
- Laurence Hutton Biography (1843–1904)
- Laurence Sterne Biography (1713–68)
- Laurens Janszoon Biography (c.1370–c.1440) (also called Laurens Coster)
- Laurens Perseus Hickok Biography (1799–1888)
- Laurens Pieter Van De Spiegel Biography (1736–1800)
- Laurens Reael Or Reaal Biography (1583–1637)
- Laurent Barbieri Biography (1960– )
- Laurent Blanc Biography (1965– )
- Laurent De La Hyre Or La Hire Biography (1606–56)
- Laurent Fabius Biography (1946– )
- Laurent Fignon Biography (1960– )
- Laurent Jalabert Biography (1968– )
- Laurent-Desiré Kabila Biography (1939–2001)
- Lauretta Bender Biography (1897–1987)
- Laurie Lee Biography (1914–97)
- Lauris Margaret Elms Biography (1931– )
- Lauris Norstad Biography (1907–88)
- Lauritz (Lebrecht Hommel) Melchior Biography (1890–1973)
- Lauro Olmo Biography (1922– )
- Laurustinus
- Lausanne
- Lava
- Lavender
- Lavinia Lloyd Dock Biography (1858–1956)
- Lavr Georgyevich Kornilov Biography (1870–1918)
- Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria Biography (1899–1953)
- Law
- Law Commission
- Law Society
- Lawrence
- Lawrence (Arthur) Cremin Biography (1925–90)
- Lawrence (Dale) Bell Biography (1894–1956)
- Lawrence (Edward Grace) Oates Biography (1880–1912)
- Lawrence (George) Durrell Biography (1912–90)
- Lawrence (Joseph) Shehan Biography (1898–1984)
- Lawrence (Monsanto) Ferlinghetti Biography (1919– ) (originally Lawrence Ferling)
- Lawrence (Robert) Klein Biography (1920– )
- Lawrence Bogorad Biography (1921– )
- Lawrence Clark Powell Biography (1906–2001)
- Lawrence D(avid) H(erbert Richard) Biography (1885–1930)
- Lawrence E(dward) Walsh Biography (1912– )
- Lawrence Gilman Biography (1878–1939)
- Lawrence Halprin Biography (1916– )
- Lawrence Hargrave Biography (1850–1915)
- Lawrence J(oseph) Henderson Biography (1878–1942)
- Lawrence Kasdan Biography (1949– )
- Lawrence Kearny Biography (1789–1868)
- Lawrence Kohlberg Biography (1927–87)
- Lawrence Martin Biography (1880–1955)
- Lawrence Sheriff Biography (?–1567)
- Lawrence Sherman Kuter Biography (1905–79)
- Lawrence Tibbett Biography (1896–1960)
- Lawrence Turner Veiller Biography (1872–1959)
- Lawrence Welk Biography (1903–92)
- Lawson Cypress
- Laxative
- Lay-planning Or Laying Up
- Layamon Biography (13th-c)
- Layering
- Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich Biography (1893–1991)
- Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) Carnot Biography (1753–1823)
- Lazarists
- Lazaro Spallanzani Biography (1729–99)
- Lazarus Ercker Biography (c.1530–c.1593)
- Lazlo Biró Biography (1899–1985)
- Lazzari Or Lazzaroni
- Le Corbusier Biography (1887–1965) (pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
- Le Duc Tho Biography (1911–90) (originally Phan Dinh Khai)
- Le Fort, Gertrud Freiin Von Biography (1876–1971) (pseudonym Gertrud von Stark)
- Le Havre (formerly Le Havre-de-Grace)
- Le Mans (ancient Oppidum Suindinum)
- Le Nain
- Lead
- Lead Poisoning
- Leaf
- Leaf Beetle
- Leaf Hopper
- Leaf Insect
- Leaf Miner
- Leafcutter Ant
- Leafcutter Bee
- League Of Nations
- League Of Nobles (Dutch Eedverbond der Edelen)
- League Of Rights
- Leandro Fernández De Moratín Biography (1760–1828)
- Leaning Tower (Ital Torre Pendente)
- Leap Year
- Lear
- Learning
- Lease
- Leaseback
- Leason Heberling Adams Biography (1887–1969)
- Least-action Principle
- Leather
- Leatherback Turtle
- Lebak
- Lebanese Civil War
- Lebanon
- Lebanon (Connecticut)
- Lebanon Mountains (Arabic Jebel Liban)
- Lebensraum ((Ger ‘living space’))
- Lebowa
- Lech Wałęsa Biography (1943– )
- Lechtal Alps (Ger Lechtaler Alpen)
- LED Printer
- Leda (astronomy)
- Leda (mythology)
- Lee
- Lee (Buck) Trevino Biography (1939– ) (nickname Supermex)
- Lee (O) Lawrie Biography (1877–1963)
- Lee Breuer Biography (1937– )
- Lee De Forest Biography (1873–1961)
- Lee Friedlander Biography (1934– )
- Lee Harvey Oswald Biography (1939–63)
- Lee Iacocca Biography (1924– ) (popular name of Lido Anthony Iacocca)
- Lee Konitz Biography (1927– )
- Lee Kuan Yew Biography (1923– )
- Lee P(atrick) Brown Biography (1937– )
- Lee Shubert Biography (?1873–1953) (originally Levi)
- Lee Strasberg Biography (1901–82) (originally Israel Strassberg)
- Lee Teng-hui Biography (1923– )
- Leech
- Leeds
- Leek
- Leeuwarden (Frisian Liouwert)
- Leeward Islands (Caribbean) (Span Islas de Sotavento)
- Leeward Islands (French Polynesia) (Fr Iles sous le Vent)
- Left Bank
- Left Wing
- Leg
- Lega Nord (Eng Northern League)
- Legacy
- Legal Aid
- Legal Tender
- Legend
- Leghorn
- Legion
- Legion Condor
- Legion Of Mary
- Legionnaire's Disease
- Legislature
- Legitimacy
- Legitimate Theatre / Theater
- Legume
- Leiber And Stoller
- Leicester (Lat Ratae Coritanorum)
- Leicestershire
- Leif Eriksson Biography (fl.1000)
- Leigh Wade Biography (1897–1991)
- Leinster
- Leipzig (ancient Lipsia)
- Leipzig, Battle Of
- Leishmaniasis
- Leitmotif
- Leitrim (Ir Liathdroma)
- Leland H Hartwell Biography (1939– ) (known as Lee Hartwell)
- Leland Olds Biography (1890–1960)
- Leliaards Or Leliaerts
- Lelio Basso Biography (1903–78)
- Lemerre, Roger Biography (1941– )
- Lemming
- Lemnos (Gr Límnos)
- Lemon
- Lemon Sole
- Lemon Verbena
- Lemony Snicket Biography (1970– ) (pseudonym of Daniel Handler)
- Lemuel Shattuck Biography (1793–1859)
- Lemuel Shaw Biography (1781–1861)
- Lemur
- Len Deighton Biography (1929– ) (popular name of Leonard Cyril Deighton)
- Len Hutton Biography (1916–90) (popular name of Sir Leonard Hutton)
- Len Murray Biography (1922–2004) (popular name of Murray of Epping ForestBaron Lionel Murray of Telford)
- Lena Horne Biography (1917– )
- Lena Levine Biography (1903–65)
- Lena, River
- Lend-Lease Agreement
- Lender Of Last Resort
- Leni Riefenstahl Biography (1902–2003) (popular name of Berta Helene Amalie Riefenstahl)
- Lenin Mausoleum
- Lenin, Peak (Russ LeninaPikformerly Mt Kaufmann)
- Lennart Nilsson Biography (1922– )
- Lennie Tristano Biography (1919–78) (popular name of Leonard Joseph Tristano)
- Lennox Lewis Biography (1965– )
- Lenny Bruce Biography (1925–66) (originally Leonard Alfred Schneider)
- Lenny Henry Biography (1958– ) (popular name of Lenworth George Henry)
- Lenore Tawney Biography (1925– )
- Lens
- Lent
- Lenticel
- Lentil
- Lentivirus
- Lenz's Law
- Leo ((Lat ‘lion’))
- Leo (Daniel) Stein Biography (1872–1947)
- Leo (Ernest) Durocher Biography (1905–91) (nickname The Lip)
- Leo (Hendrik) Baekeland Biography (1863–1944)
- Leo Africanus Biography (c.1485–c.1554) (originally Alhassan ibn Mohammed Alwazzan)
- Leo Baeck Biography (1873–1956)
- Leo Baxendale Biography (1930– )
- Leo Burnett Biography (1891–1971)
- Leo Castelli Biography (1907–99) (originally Leo Krauss)
- Leo Esaki Biography (1925– ) (originally Esaki Reiona)
- Leo Goldberg Biography (1918–87)
- Leo III Biography (c.680–741) (known as Leo the Isaurian)
- Leo Ornstein Biography (1892/5–2002)
- Leo P(hilip) Kadanoff Biography (1937– )
- Leo Pasvolsky Biography (1893–1953)
- Leo Robin Biography (1895–1984)
- Leo Sowerby Biography (1895–1968)
- Leo Stanton Rowe Biography (1871–1946)
- Leo Steinberg Biography (1920– )
- Leo Strauss Biography (1899–1973)
- Leo Szilard Biography (1898–1964)
- Leo Valiani Biography (1909–99)
- Leo Vroman Biography (1915– )
- Leo X Biography (1475–1521) (originally Giovanni de' Medici)
- Leo XIII Biography (1810–1903) (originally Vincenzo Giocchino Pecci)
- Leo(poldo) Longanesi Biography (1905–57)
- Leominster
- Leon (Albert) Golub Biography (1922–2004)
- Leon (Howard) Sullivan Biography (1922–2001)
- Leon (Marcus) Uris Biography (1924–2003)
- Leon (Michel) Gambetta Biography (1838–82)
- Leon Battista Alberti Biography (1404–72)
- Leon Carnovsky Biography (1903–75)
- Leon Czolgosz Biography (1873–1901)
- Leon De Winter Biography (1954– )
- Leon Festinger Biography (1919– )
- Leon Fleischer Biography (1928– )
- Leon H Keyserling Biography (1908–87)
- Leon Jaworski Biography (1905–82)
- Leon Kirchner Biography (1919– )
- Leon Knopoff Biography (1925– )
- Leon Kossoff Biography (1926– )
- Leon M(ax) Lederman Biography (1922– )
- Leon N(eil) Cooper Biography (1930– )
- Leon N(icholas) Brillouin Biography (1889–1969)
- Leon S(olomon) Moissief Biography (1872–1943)
- Leon Spinks Biography (1953– )
- Leon Trotsky Biography (1879–1940) (pseudonym of Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
- Leona (Mindy) Helmsley Biography (1920– ) (née Rosenthal)
- Leonard (Alfred George) Strong Biography (1896–1958)
- Leonard (Augustus) Jones Biography (1832–1909)
- Leonard (Eugene) Dickson Biography (1874–1954)
- Leonard (Sidney) Woolf Biography (1880–1969)
- Leonard B(enedict) Loeb Biography (1891–1978)
- Leonard B(oudinov) Boudin Biography (1912–89)
- Leonard Bacon Biography (1802–91)
- Leonard Baskin Biography (1922–2000)
- Leonard Bernstein Biography (1918–90)
- Leonard Bloomfield Biography (1887–1949)
- Leonard Calvert Biography (1606–47)
- Leonard Chess Biography (1917–69)
- Leonard Cohen Biography (1934– )
- Leonard D(upee) White Biography (1891–1958)
- Leonard Digges Biography (1520–c.1559)
- Leonard Hodgson Biography (1889–1969)
- Leonard I(saac) Schiff Biography (1915–71)
- Leonard Michael Greene Biography (1918–2006)
- Leonard Nimoy Biography (1931– )
- Leonard Peltier Biography (1944– )
- Leonard Rose Biography (1918–84)
- Leonard Rosenman Biography (1924– )
- Leonard Rossiter Biography (1926–84)
- Leonard Slatkin Biography (1944– )
- Leonard W Buck Biography (1891–1953)
- Leonard Warren Biography (1911–60) (originally Varenov)
- Leonard Wood Biography (1860–1927)
- Leonardo Boff Biography (1938– )
- Leonardo Bruni Biography (1370–1444)
- Leonardo Da Vinci Biography (1452–1519)
- Leonardo Dati Biography (1408–72)
- Leonardo De Figueroa Biography (c.1650–1730)
- Leonardo DiCaprio Biography (1974– )
- Leonardo Fibonacci Biography (c.1170–c.1250) (also known as Leonardo Pisano)
- Leonardo Sciascia Biography (1921–89)
- Leonardo Sinisgalli Biography (1908–81)
- Leone Ginzburg Biography (1909–44)
- Leone Leoni Biography (1509–90)
- Leonhard Euler Biography (1707–83)
- Leonhard Frank Biography (1882–1961)
- Leonhard Fuchs Biography (1501–66)
- Leonhard Ragaz Biography (1862–1945)
- Leonid (Danilovich) Kuchma Biography (1938– )
- Leonid Ilich Brezhnev Biography (1906–82)
- Leonid Ivanovitch Abalkin Biography (1930– )
- Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Biography (1871–1919) (also spelled Andreev)
- Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Biography (1912–86)
- Leonida Bissolati-Bergamaschi Biography (1857–1920)
- Leonida Repaci Biography (1898–1985)
- Leonidas Biography (?–480 BC)
- Leonidas Polk Biography (1806–64)
- Leonids
- Leonor Michaelis Biography (1875–1949)
- Leonora (Marie Kearney) Barry Biography (1849–1923)
- Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper Biography (1857–1950)
- Leonora O'Reilly Biography (1870–1927)
- Leopard
- Leopard Cat
- Leopard Seal
- Leopold (Stephen) Ružička Biography (1887–1976)
- Leopold Ahlsen Biography (1927– ) (pseudonym of Helmut Abzmann)
- Leopold Auenbrugger Biography (1722–1809)
- Leopold Damrosch Biography (1832–85)
- Leopold Eidlitz Biography (1823–1908)
- Leopold Gmelin Biography (1788–1853)
- Leopold Godowsky Biography (1870–1938)
- Leopold I (Emperor) Biography (1640–1705)
- Leopold I (of Belgium) Biography (1790–1865)
- Leopold II (Emperor) Biography (1747–92)
- Leopold II (of Belgium) Biography (1835–1909)
- Leopold II Of Habsburg-Lorena Biography (1747–92)
- Leopold III Biography (1901–83)
- Leopold Kohr Biography (1909–94)
- Leopold Stokowski Biography (1882–1977) (originally Antoni Stanislaw Boleslawowicz)
- Leopold Von Ranke Biography (1795–1886)
- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Biography (1836–95)
- Leopoldo (Fortunato) Galtieri Biography (1926–2003)
- Leopoldo Alas (y Ureña) Biography (1852–1901) (pseudonym Clarín)
- Leopoldo Cano Y Masas Biography (1844–1936)
- Leopoldo Nobili Biography (1784–1835)
- Leoš Janáček Biography (1854–1928)
- Lepanto, Battle Of
- Lepenski Vir
- Lepidoptera
- Leprechaun
- Leptis Magna Or Lepcis Magna
- Lepton
- Lepus ((Lat ‘hare’))
- Leroy (Randle) Grumman Biography (1895–1982)
- LeRoy Charles Merritt Biography (1912–70) (originally LeRoy Charles Schimmelpfennig)
- LeRoy Neiman Biography (1927– )
- Lerwick
- Les Paul Biography (1915– ) (originally Lester Polfus)
- Les(lie Allan) Murray Biography (1938– )
- Lesbianism
- Lesbos (Gr Lesvos or Mitilini)
- Leskovac Or Leskovats
- Lesley (James) McNair Biography (1883–1944)
- Lesley Garrett Biography (1955– )
- Leslie (Aaron) Fiedler Biography (1917–2003 )
- Leslie (Cornelius) Arends Biography (1895–1985)
- Leslie (Herbert) Wexner Biography (1937– )
- Leslie A(lvin) White Biography (1900–75)
- Leslie Charteris Biography (1907–93) (originally Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin)
- Leslie Ephraim Spier Biography (1893–1961)
- Leslie Howard Biography (1893–1943) (originally Leslie Howard Stainer)
- Leslie John Comrie Biography (1893–1950)
- Leslie Silko Biography (1948– ) (née Marmon)
- Leslie T Wilkins Biography (1915– )
- Lesotho
- Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
- Less Favoured Areas (LFAs)
- Lesser Celandine
- Lester (Allen) Pelton Biography (1829–1918)
- Lester (Carl) Thurow Biography (1938– )
- Lester (Garfield) Maddox Biography (1915–2003)
- Lester (Halbert) Germer Biography (1896–1971)
- Lester (John Johnstone) Wallack Biography (1820–88)
- Lester (Keith) Piggott Biography (1935– )
- Lester (Lum) Colbert Biography (1905–95)
- Lester (Willis) Young Biography (1909–59) (nickname Prez)
- Lester B(owles) Pearson Biography (1897–1972)
- Lester Brown Biography (1934– )
- Lester Del Rey Biography (1915–93) (in full Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Lester)
- Lester Eugene Asheim Biography (1914– )
- Lester Frank Ward Biography (1841–1913)
- Lester Lanin Biography (1911–2004)
- Leszno (formerly LissaPrussia)
- Lethbridge
- Lethe
- Letitia Tyler Biography (1790–1842) (née Christian)
- Leto (or Latona)
- Letrilla ((Eng ‘lyric poem’))
- Letter Of Credit
- Letterpress
- Letters Patent
- Lettuce
- Leucippus Biography (5th-c BC)
- Leucocytes
- Leukaemia / Leukemia
- Leukotrienes
- Leuven (Fr LouvainGer Lowen)
- Lev (Ivanovich) Ivanov Biography (1834–1901)
- Lev Borisovich Kamenev Biography (1883–1936) (originally Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)
- Lev Davidovich Landau Biography (1908–68) (known as Dev Landau)
- Lev Semenovich Vygotsky Biography (1896–1934)
- Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin Biography (1908–88)
- Lev Yashin Biography (1929–90)
- Levant, The
- Levellers
- Leven, Loch
- Leverett Saltonstall Biography (1892–1979)
- Levi
- Levi (Parsons) Morton Biography (1824–1920)
- Levi Stockbridge Biography (1820–1904)
- Levi Strauss Biography (1829–1902) (originally Loeb Strauss)
- Levi Woodbury Biography (1789–1851)
- Leviathan
- Levirate
- Levites
- Leviticus, Book Of
- Lew Christensen Biography (1909–84)
- Lew(is Alan) Hoad Biography (1934–94)
- Lew(is) Wallace Biography (1827–1905)
- Lewes
- Lewis (Blaine) Hershey Biography (1893–1977)
- Lewis (Burwell) Puller Biography (1898–1971) (nickname Chesty)
- Lewis (Hastings) Sarett Biography (1917–99)
- Lewis (Hyde) Brereton Biography (1890–1967)
- Lewis (Lichtenstein) Strauss Biography (1896–1974)
- Lewis (Roberts) Binford Biography (1930– )
- Lewis (Ulysses) Hanke Biography (1905–93)
- Lewis (Wickes) Hine Biography (1874–1940)
- Lewis A(lfred) Coser Biography (1913– )
- Lewis Caleb Beck Biography (1798–1853)
- Lewis Carroll Biography (1832–98) (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Lewis Cass Biography (1782–1866)
- Lewis Corey Biography (1892–1953) (originally Luigi Carlo Fraina)
- Lewis Edward Lawes Biography (1883–1947)
- Lewis Fields Linn Biography (1795–1843)
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon Biography (1901–35) (pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell)
- Lewis Henry Morgan Biography (1818–81)
- Lewis Howard Latimer Biography (1848–1928)
- Lewis Lund Judd Biography (1930– )
- Lewis M(adison) Terman Biography (1877–1956)
- Lewis Mumford Biography (1895–1990)
- Lewis Paul Biography (?–1759)
- Lewis Tappan Biography (1788–1873)
- Lewis Thomas Biography (1913–93)
- Lewis Thomas Wattson Biography (1863–1940) (known as Father Paul James Francis)
- Lewis Thompson Preston Biography (1926– )
- Lewis With Harris
- Lexeme
- Lexington (Massachusetts)
- Lexington (Virginia)
- Lexington And Concord, Battle Of
- Lexington