Terms from Lime (fruit) to Mahonri MacKintosh Young
- Lime (fruit)
- Lime (tree)
- Limerick
- Limerick (city) (Ir Luimneach)
- Limerick (county) (Ir Luimneach)
- Limestone
- Limit
- Limitation Of Actions
- Limner
- Limnology
- Limoges (ancient Augustoritum Lemovicensiumlater Lemovic)
- Limonite
- Limpet
- Limpieza De Sangre ((Eng ‘purity of lineage’))
- Limpopo, River (also Crocodile River)
- Lin Biao Or Lin Piao Biography (1907–71)
- Lin Yü-tang Biography (1895–1976)
- Linares
- Lincoln (Edward) Kirstein Biography (1907–96)
- Lincoln (UK)
- Lincoln (USA) (formerly Lancaster (to 1867))
- Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts
- Lincoln Ellsworth Biography (1880–1951)
- Lincoln MacVeagh Biography (1890–1972)
- Lincoln Memorial
- Lincoln P(ierson) Brower Biography (1931– )
- Lincoln Park
- Lincolnshire
- Linda Anne Eastman Biography (1867–1963)
- Linda B Buck Biography (1947– )
- Linda Nochlin Biography (1931– ) (née Weinberg)
- Linden
- Lindisfarne
- Lindley Armstrong Jones Biography (1911–65) (known as Spike)
- Lindley Murray Biography (1745–1826)
- Lindsay (Gordon) Anderson Biography (1923–94)
- Lindsay Davenport Biography (1976– )
- Lindsay Kemp Biography (1938– )
- Lindy Chamberlain Biography (1948– ) (née Alice Lynne Murchison)
- Line Dance
- Line Islands
- Line Printer
- Line-engraving
- Linear A
- Linear Accelerator
- Linear B
- Linen
- Linford Christie Biography (1960– )
- Ling (zoology)
- Lingam
- Linggadjati Accord (Dutch LinggadjatiAkkoord van)
- Lingua Franca
- Linguistic Philosophy
- Linguistics
- Linkage
- Linköping
- Linlithgow
- Linlithgow Palace
- Linnet
- Lino Borrini Ventura Biography (1919–87) (known as Lino)
- Lino Coluccio Salutati Biography (1331–1406)
- Linsang
- Linus (Carl) Pauling Biography (1901–94)
- Linus Yale Biography (1821–68)
- Linz
- Lion
- Lion Feuchtwanger Biography (1884–1958)
- Lion Gardiner Biography (1599–1663)
- Lionel (Edmund) Rose Biography (1948– )
- Lionel (Keith) Murphy Biography (1922–86)
- Lionel (Leo) Hampton Biography (1908–2002) (nicknames Hamp and King of the Vibes)
- Lionel Barrymore Biography (1878–1954) (originally Lionel Blythe)
- Lionel Bart Biography (1930–99)
- Lionel Blue Biography (1930– )
- Lionel Casson Biography (1914– )
- Lionel Copley Biography (?–1693)
- Lionel F(rancis) Jaffe Biography (1927– )
- Lionel Jospin Biography (1937– )
- Lionel Monckton Biography (1861–1924)
- Lionel Richie Biography (1949– )
- Lionel Rogosin Biography (1924– )
- Lionel Trilling Biography (1905–75)
- Lip Reading
- Lipase
- Lipizzaner
- Lipogram
- Liqueur
- Liquid
- Liquid Crystals
- Liquidity
- Liquidity Preference
- Liquorice Or Licorice
- Lisa (Marie Diane) Kudrow Biography (1963– )
- Lisa Clayton Biography (1959– )
- Lisa Della Casa Biography (1919– )
- Lisbon (Port Lisboaancient Olisipo or Felicitas Julia)
- Lisburn
- Lisdoonvarna
- Lise Meitner Biography (1878–1968)
- Lisette Model Biography (1906–83) (originally Seybert)
- LISP
- Litany
- Litchfield (Connecticut)
- Litchi, Litchee, Leechee, Or Lychee
- Literacy
- Literary Agent
- Literary Criticism
- Literary Prizes
- Literature
- Litharge
- Lithium
- Lithography
- Lithosphere
- Lithuania
- Litmus
- Litre
- Little Bighorn, Battle Of The (also known as Custer's Last Stand)
- Little Crow Biography (?1820–63) (originally Taheton Wakawa Mini)
- Little Owl
- Little Richard Biography (1935– ) (popular name of Richard Wayne Penniman)
- Little Rock
- Little Walter Biography (1931–68) (popular name of Marion Walter Jacobs)
- Liturgical Movement
- Liturgy ((Gr leitourgia‘dutyservice’))
- Liu Shaoqi Biography (1898–1969) (also spelled Liu Shao-ch'i)
- Liu Sheng Biography (?–113 BC)
- Liu Xin Biography (1st-c BC–1st-c AD) (also spelled Liu Hsin)
- Liubov Sergeyevna Popova Biography (1889–1924) (née Eding)
- Liupanshui Or Liu-p'an-shui
- Liutprand Biography (d.744)
- Liv (Johanne) Ullmann Biography (1939– )
- Liv Tyler Biography (1977– ) (originally Liv Rundgren)
- Liver
- Liver Fluke
- Liverpool
- Liverpool Football Club
- Liverpool Poets
- Liverwort
- Livery Companies
- Livestock Farming
- Liveware
- Livia Drusilla Biography (58 BC–AD 29)
- Living Fossil
- Living Newspaper
- Living Stone
- Living Theater / Theatre
- Livingstone Daisy
- Livonian Knights
- Livorno (Eng Leghorn)
- Livy Biography (c.59 BC–AD 17) (in full Titus Livius)
- Liz Claiborne Biography (1929– ) (originally Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg)
- Liz McColgan Biography (1964– ) (popular name of Elizabeth McColgannée Lynch)
- Liza (May) Minnelli Biography (1946– )
- Lizard
- Lizard Point
- Lizzie (Andrew) Borden Biography (1860–1927)
- Lizzie Black Kander Biography (1858–1940)
- Lizzie Plummer Bliss Biography (1864–1931)
- Liège (Flemish LuikGer Lüttich)
- Ljubljana (Ital Lubianaancient Emona)
- Llama
- Llandudno
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (in full Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (‘St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio by the red cave’))
- Llangefni
- Llangollen
- Llano Estacado ((‘staked plain’))
- Llanos
- Lleida
- Llewelyn Powys Biography (1884–1939)
- Lleyn Peninsula
- Lleyton Hewitt Biography (1981– )
- Lloyd C(assel) Douglas Biography (1877–1951)
- Lloyd E Ohlin Biography (1918– )
- Lloyd Frederick Rees Biography (1895–1988)
- Lloyd Goodrich Biography (1897–1987)
- Lloyd N(orton) Cutler Biography (1917– )
- Lloyd Osbourne Biography (1868–1947)
- Lloyd R Fredendall Biography (1883–1963)
- Lloyd Richards Biography (1923– )
- Lloyd's
- Lloyd's Register Of Shipping
- Llullaillaco, Cerro
- Lluís Domènech I Montaner Biography (1850–1923)
- Llywelyn Ap Gruffydd Biography (?–1282)
- Llywelyn Ap Iorwerth Biography (?–1240) (known as Llywelyn Fawr (‘Llywelyn the Great’))
- Lo Guangzhong Biography (1330–1400) (also spelled Lo Kuan-chung)
- Loa (Eng ‘praise’)
- Loach
- Loam
- Loammi Baldwin Biography (1745–1807)
- Lobbying
- Lobefish
- Lobelia
- Lobito
- Lobster
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- Local Education Authority (LEA)
- Local Government
- Local Group
- Locarno Pact
- Locational Analysis
- Lock (canal)
- Lock (security)
- Lockerbie
- Lockout
- Locomotive
- Locust
- Lodewijk Justus De Waal Biography (1950– )
- Lodewijk Van Deyssel Biography (1864–1952) (pseudonym of Karel Johan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm)
- Lodi
- Lodi, Peace Of
- Lodovico Castelvetro Biography (1505–71)
- Lodowick Muggleton Biography (1609–98)
- Lodève
- Loess Region
- Loevestein
- Lofoten Islands
- Lofty–Flinders Ranges, Mount
- Logan, Mount
- Loganberry
- Logarithm
- Loggia
- Logic
- Logic Programming
- Logical Positivism
- Logo
- Logography
- Logroño
- Lohengrin
- Loie Fuller Biography (1862–1928) (popular name of Marie Louise Fuller)
- Loire, River (ancient Liger)
- Lois Barclay Murphy Biography (1902–2003)
- Loki
- Lola Flores Biography (1923–95) (stage name of María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz)
- Lola Montez Biography (1818–61) (originally Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert)
- Lollards
- Lolo
- Lombard League
- Lombardo-Veneto, Kingdom Of
- Lombards
- Lombardy (Ital Lombardia)
- Lombardy Poplar
- Lomond, Loch
- Lomé
- Lomé Convention
- Lon Chaney Biography (1883–1930) (originally Alonso Chaney)
- London (Lat Londinium (in the 4th-cAugusta))
- London Bridge
- London Contemporary Dance Theatre
- London Eye
- London Festival Ballet
- London Group
- London Missionary Society (LMS)
- London Museum
- London Pride
- London University
- Londoner Abkommen
- Londoner Neunmächtekonferenz
- Londoner Protokolle
- Londoner Schuldenabkommen
- Londoner Sechsmächtekonferenz
- Lone Pair
- Long Beach
- Long Branch
- Long Island
- Long Jump
- Long March
- Long Parliament
- Long-tailed Tit
- Longbenton-Killingworth
- Longbow
- Longford (city) (Ir Longphort)
- Longford (county) (Ir Longphort)
- Longinus Biography (fl. 1st-c) (also called Dionysius Longinus and Pseudo-Longinus)
- Longship
- Longshore Transport
- Longus Biography (fl.3rd-c)
- Lonnie Donegan Biography (1931–2002) (originally Anthony James Donegan)
- Lonnie Johnson Biography (1899–1970) (popular name of Alonzo Johnson)
- Lonsdale Belt
- Loofah
- Look-and-say
- Looper
- Lope (Félix) De Vega (Carpio) Biography (1562–1635)
- Lope De Rueda Biography (c.1505–65)
- Loquat
- Lorado (Zadoc) Taft Biography (1860–1936)
- Lorain
- Loran
- Lord (Edward Christian) David (Gascoyne) Cecil Biography (1902–86)
- Lord (Michael) Colin Cowdrey (of Tonbridge) Biography (1932–2000)
- Lord (William) George (Frederick Cavendish) Bentinck Biography (1802–48)
- Lord Alfred (Bruce) Douglas Biography (1870–1945)
- Lord Chancellor
- Lord Chief Justice
- Lord Coe (of Ranmore), Sebastian (Newbold) Coe Biography (1956– )
- Lord Darnley, Henry Stewart Biography (1545–67)
- Lord Edward Fitzgerald Biography (1763–98)
- Lord Foster (of Thames Bank), Norman (Robert) Biography (1935– )
- Lord George Gordon Biography (1751–93)
- Lord Guildford Dudley Biography (?–1554)
- Lord Heseltine, Michael (Ray Dibdin) Biography (1933– )
- Lord Howe Island
- Lord Hutton, Sir James Brian Edward Biography (1931– )
- Lord Jakobovits, Immanuel Biography (1921–99)
- Lord Macnaghten, Edward Biography (1830–1913)
- Lord Monboddo, James Burnett Biography (1714–99)
- Lord Of Achttienhoven Heemskerck, Coenraad Van Biography (1646–1702)
- Lord Of St Aldegonde Marnix, Philip Of Biography (1540–98) (Dutch MarnixFilips deheer van St Aldegonde)
- Lord Puttnam (of Queensgate), David (Terence) Puttnam Biography (1941– )
- Lord Randolph (Henry Spencer) Churchill Biography (1849–95)
- Lord Rogers (of Riverside), Richard Rogers Biography (1933– )
- Lord Russell, William Biography (1639–83)
- Lord Steel (of Aikwood), David (Martin Scott) Biography (1938– )
- Lord William (Henry Cavendish) Bentinck Biography (1774–1839)
- Lord's Cricket Ground
- Lord's Prayer
- Lord-Lieutenant
- Lords, House Of
- Lords-and-ladies
- Loredan
- Lorelei
- Loren (Corey) Eiseley Biography (1907–77)
- Lorentz Contraction
- Lorenz (Edwin Alfred) Eitner Biography (1919– )
- Lorenzino De' Medici Biography (1513–48) (known as Lorenzaccio)
- Lorenzo Biography (c.1370–c.1425) (known as il Monaco (‘the Monk’)originally Piero di Giovanni)
- Lorenzo Da Ponte Biography (1749–1838) (originally Emanuele Conegliano)
- Lorenzo De' Medici Biography (1449–92) (known as the Magnificent)
- Lorenzo Delmonico Biography (1813–81)
- Lorenzo Dow Biography (1777–1834)
- Lorenzo Ghiberti Biography (1378–1455)
- Lorenzo Homar Biography (1913– )
- Lorenzo Lotto Biography (c.1480–1556)
- Lorenzo Magalotti Biography (1637–1712)
- Lorenzo Maitani Biography (c.1275–1330)
- Lorenzo Perosi Biography (1872–1956)
- Lorenzo Pignotti Biography (1739–1812)
- Lorenzo Thomas Biography (1804–75)
- Lorenzo Tonti Biography (1620–90)
- Lorenzo Valla Biography (c.1407–57)
- Loreto
- Loretta Lynn Biography (1935– )
- Lorin (Varencove) Maazel Biography (1930– )
- Loris
- Lorne (Albert) Pierce Biography (1890–1961)
- Lorraine
- Lorraine Hansberry Biography (1930–65)
- Lorraine, Cross Of
- Lory
- Los Alamos
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Lossiemouth
- Lost Generation
- Lost World
- Lot
- Lothar De Maizière Biography (1940– )
- Lothar I Biography (795–855)
- Lothar II Biography (d.950)
- Lothar III Biography (1060–1137)
- Lothar III Von Supplinburg Biography (c.1075–1137)
- Lotharingia
- Lothian
- Lotta Continua ((Eng ‘ongoing struggle’))
- Lotte Lehmann Biography (1888–1976)
- Lotte Lenya Biography (1900–81) (originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer)
- Lottery
- Lotus
- Lotus 123
- Lotus Notes
- Lotus-eaters Or Lotophagi
- Lou (Silver) Harrison Biography (1917–2003)
- Lou Andreas-Salomé Biography (1861–1937)
- Lou Brock Biography (1939– ) (popular name of Louis Clark Brock)
- Lou Hoover Biography (1874–1944) (née Henry)
- Lou Reed Biography (1944– ) (originally Louis Firbank)
- Lou(is Lawrence) Little Biography (1893–1979)
- Lou(is) Harris Biography (1921– )
- Louangphrabang Or Luang Prabang
- Loudspeaker Or Speaker
- Louis (Antoine Léon Florelle) De Saint-Just Biography (1767–94)
- Louis (Antoine Marie Joseph) Dollo Biography (1857–1931)
- Louis (Arthur) Johnson Biography (1891–1966)
- Louis (Brucker) Bromfield Biography (1896–1956)
- Louis (Charles) XVII Biography (1785–95)
- Louis (Comfort) Tiffany Biography (1848–1933)
- Louis (Daniel) Armstrong Biography (1901–71) (nicknames Satchmo and Pops)
- Louis (Dearborn) L'Amour Biography (1908–88) (originally Louis Dearborn LaMoorepseudonyms Tex BurnsJim Mayo)
- Louis (Jozef Maria) Beel Biography (1902–77)
- Louis (Malesherbes) Goldsborough Biography (1805–77)
- Louis (Michel) Eilshemius Biography (1864–1941)
- Louis (O) Guglielmi Biography (1906–56)
- Louis (Round) Wilson Biography (1876–1979)
- Louis (Stanton) Auchincloss Biography (1917– ) (pseudonym Andrew Lee)
- Louis (Stephen) Saint Laurent Biography (1882–1973)
- Louis (Trolle) Hjelmslev Biography (1899–1965)
- Louis (Tullius Joachim) Visconti Biography (1791–1853)
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes Biography (1874–1927)
- Louis Alexandre Berthier Biography (1753–1815)
- Louis Althusser Biography (1918–90)
- Louis Antoine Godey Biography (1804–78)
- Louis Aragon Biography (1897–1982)
- Louis B Schwartz Biography (1913– )
- Louis B(urt) Mayer Biography (1885–1957) (originally Eliezer Mayer)
- Louis Beyds Biography (1895–1953)
- Louis Blériot Biography (1872–1936)
- Louis Bobet Biography (1925–83) (known as Louison)
- Louis Bonaparte Biography (1778–1846)
- Louis Botha Biography (1862–1919)
- Louis Bourdaloue Biography (17th-c)
- Louis Braille Biography (1809–52)
- Louis C(lark) Jones Biography (1908– )
- Louis Chevrolet Biography (1878–1941)
- Louis Claude Daquin Biography (1694–1772)
- Louis Couturat Biography (1868–1914)
- Louis D(embitz) Brandeis Biography (1856–1941)
- Louis De Bernières Biography (1954– )
- Louis De Jong Biography (1914– ) (known as Lou de Jong)
- Louis Delluc Biography (1890–1924)
- Louis Denfeld Biography (1891–1972)
- Louis Duclos Du Hauron Biography (1837–1920)
- Louis Durey Biography (1888–1979)
- Louis Eugène Félix Néel Biography (1904–2000)
- Louis Falco Biography (1942–93)
- Louis Farrakhan Biography (1933– ) (originally Louis Eugene Walcott)
- Louis Felix Diat Biography (1885–1957)
- Louis Ferron Biography (1942– )
- Louis Finkelstein Biography (1895–1991)
- Louis François Roubillac Biography (1702–1762) (also spelled Roubiliac)
- Louis Félix Marie François Franchet D'Esperey Biography (1856–1942)
- Louis Ginzberg Biography (1873–1953)
- Louis Golding Biography (1895–1958)
- Louis Gruenberg Biography (1884–1964)
- Louis Henry Sullivan Biography (1856–1924)
- Louis Hostin Biography (1908– )
- Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey Biography (1854–1934)
- Louis Hémon Biography (1880–1913)
- Louis I Biography (778–840) (known as the Pious)
- Louis I(sadore) Kahn Biography (1901–74)
- Louis Israel Dublin Biography (1882–1969)
- Louis J Ignarro Biography (1941– )
- Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre Biography (1789–1851)
- Louis Jacques Thenard Biography (1777–1857)
- Louis Jordan Biography (1908–75)
- Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold Biography (1791–1833)
- Louis Joseph Papineau Biography (1786–1871)
- Louis Joseph Vicat Biography (1786–1861)
- Louis Jouvet Biography (1887–1951)
- Louis Laguerre Biography (1663–1721)
- Louis Le Vau Or Levau Biography (1612–70)
- Louis Loss Biography (1914–97)
- Louis Lozowick Biography (1892–1973)
- Louis Léon César Faidherbe Biography (1818–89)
- Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin Lenôtre Biography (1857–1935) (known as Georges)
- Louis Léopold Boilly Biography (1761–1845)
- Louis M(cHenry) Howe Biography (1871–1936)
- Louis Malle Biography (1932–95)
- Louis Marie Anne Couperus Biography (1863–1923)
- Louis Marie Julien Viaud Biography (1850–1923) (pseudonym Pierre Loti)
- Louis Marshall Biography (1856–1929)
- Louis Michel Van Loo Biography (1707–71)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk Biography (1829–69)
- Louis Napoleon Biography (1778–1846) (Dutch Lodewijk Napoleon)
- Louis Nicolas Davout Biography (1770–1823)
- Louis Nizer Biography (1902–94)
- Louis Of Nassau Biography (1538–74) (Dutch Lodewijk van Nassau)
- Louis Parker Biography (1906–93)
- Louis Pasteur Biography (1822–95)
- Louis Paul Boon Biography (1912–79)
- Louis Paul Cailletet Biography (1832–1913)
- Louis Pergaud Biography (1882–1915)
- Louis Period Styles
- Louis Philip Kentner Biography (1905–87)
- Louis Raemaekers Biography (1869–1956)
- Louis Renault Biography (1877–1944)
- Louis Riel Biography (1844–85)
- Louis Réard Biography (1897–1984)
- Louis Sherry Biography (1856–1926)
- Louis Shores Biography (1904–81)
- Louis Spohr Biography (1784–1859) (originally Ludwig Spohr)
- Louis Stark Biography (1888–1954)
- Louis Stokes Biography (1925– )
- Louis Th. Lehmann Biography (1920– )
- Louis Tocqué Biography (1696–1772)
- Louis V(alentine) Pirsson Biography (1860–1919)
- Louis Victor Beau Biography (1895–1986)
- Louis Vierne Biography (1870–1937)
- Louis Vivin Biography (1861–1936)
- Louis William (Valentine) Dubourg Biography (1766–1833)
- Louis XI Biography (1423–83)
- Louis XII Biography (1462–1515)
- Louis XIII Biography (1601–43)
- Louis XIV Biography (1638–1715) (known as le Roi soleil (‘the Sun King’))
- Louis XV Biography (1710–74) (known as Louis le Bien-Aimé (‘Louis the Well-Beloved’))
- Louis XVI Biography (1754–93)
- Louis XVIII Biography (1755–1824) (originally Louis Stanislas Xaviercomte de (Count of) Provence)
- Louis Zukofsky Biography (1904–78)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline Biography (1894–1961) (pseudonym of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)
- Louis-Joseph Lebret Biography (1897–1966)
- Louis-Philippe Biography (1773–1850) (known as the Citizen King)
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier Biography (1740–1814)
- Louisa (Catherine) Adams Biography (1775–1852) (née Johnson)
- Louisa Lane Drew Biography (1820–97)
- Louisa Lawson Biography (1848–1920)
- Louisa May Alcott Biography (1832–88)
- Louisburg (also spelled Louisbourg)
- Louise Berta Mosson Hanson-Dyer Biography (1884–1962)
- Louise Blanchard Bethune Biography (1856–1913)
- Louise Bogan Biography (1897–1970)
- Louise Bourgeois Biography (1911– )
- Louise Brooks Biography (1906–85)
- Louise Colet Biography (1810–70) (née Revoil)
- Louise De Coligny Biography (1555–1620)
- Louise DeKoven Bowen Biography (1859–1953)
- Louise Homer Biography (1871–1947) (née Beatty)
- Louise Labé Biography (c.1524–66) (originally Louise Charlyknown as la Belle Cordière (‘the Lovely Ropemaker’))
- Louise Nevelson Biography (1899–1988) (née Berliawsky)
- Louise Pound Biography (1872–1958)
- Louise Stanley Biography (1883–1954)
- Louise Séraphine Biography (1864–1934)
- Louise Talma Biography (1906–96)
- Louise-Victorine Ackermann Biography (1813–90) (née Choquet)
- Louisiade Archipelago
- Louisiana
- Louisiana Purchase
- Louisine Waldron Havemeyer Biography (1855–1929) (née Elder)
- Louisville
- Lourdes
- Louse
- Louth (Ir Lughbhaidh)
- Louvre
- Lovage
- Love-in-a-mist
- Lovebird
- Lovis Corinth Biography (1858–1925)
- Low Countries
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Low-level Language
- Lowell (Arthur) Martin Biography (?1912– )
- Lowell (Jackson) Thomas Biography (1892–1981)
- Lowell Mason Biography (1792–1872)
- Lowestoft
- Lowry Centre
- Loy W(esley) Henderson Biography (1892–1986)
- Loyalists
- Loyalty Islands (Fr Iles Loyauté)
- Lozi
- LSD Or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
- Lu Xun Biography (1881–1936) (also spelled Lu-hsün or Lu-hsin)
- Luanda (formerly also LoandaPort São Paulo de Loanda)
- Luba-Lunda Kingdoms
- Lubango (formerly Sá Da Bandeira (until 1978))
- Lublin
- Lublin, Union Of
- Lubricant
- Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville (to 1966))
- Luc Alphand Biography (1965– ) (known as Lucho)
- Luc Besson Biography (1959– )
- Luc Montagnier Biography (1932– )
- Luca Della Robbia Biography (c.1400–82)
- Luca Giordano Biography (1634–1705) (known as Fa Presto (‘Make Haste’))
- Luca Marenzio Biography (1553–99)
- Luca Signorelli Biography (c.1441–1523) (also known as Luca da Cortona)
- Lucan Biography (39–65) (in full Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
- Lucas Alamán Biography (1792–1853)
- Lucas Cranach Biography (1472–1553) (known as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
- Lucas De Valdés Y Toro Biography (17th-c)
- Lucas Van Leyden Biography (1494–1533) (or Lucas Jacobsz)
- Lucca
- Lucebert Biography (1924–95) (pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk)
- Lucerne
- Lucerne (Ger Luzern)
- Lucerne, Lake (Ger Vierwaldstätter See)
- Luchino Visconti Biography (1906–76)
- Lucia Chase Biography (1907–86)
- Lucia Popp Biography (1939–93)
- Lucian Biography (c.117–c.180)
- Lucian Freud Biography (1922– )
- Luciano Berio Biography (1925–2003)
- Luciano Bianciardi Biography (1922–71)
- Luciano Castañón Fernández Biography (1926–87)
- Luciano Folgore Biography (1888–1966) (pseudonym of Omero Vecchi)
- Luciano Laurana Biography (c.1420–79)
- Luciano Manara Biography (1825–49)
- Luciano Pavarotti Biography (1935– )
- Luciano Zuccoli Biography (1868–1929) (pseudonym of Luciano von Ingenheim)
- Lucien Bodard Biography (1914–88)
- Lucien Bonaparte Biography (1775–1840)
- Lucien Bouchard Biography (1938– )
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl Biography (1857–1939)
- Lucien Pissarro Biography (1863–1944)
- Lucile Grahn Biography (1819–1907)
- Lucille (Désirée) Ball Biography (1911–89)
- Lucinda
- Lucinda Childs Biography (1940– )
- Lucinda Green Biography (1953– ) (née Prior-Palmer)
- Lucio Costa Biography (1902–98)
- Lucio D'Ambra Biography (1880–1939) (pseudonym of Renato Eduardo Manganella)
- Lucio Fontana Biography (1899–1968)
- Lucio Mastronardi Biography (1930–79)
- Lucius (DuBignon) Clay Biography (1897–1978)
- Lucius (Morris) Beebe Biography (1902–66)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Biography (c.5 BC–AD 65) (known as Seneca the Younger)
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Biography (c.55 BC–c.AD 40) (known as the Elder)
- Lucius Apuleius Biography (2nd-c)
- Lucius Aurelius Commodus Biography (161–92)
- Lucius Cornelius Cinna Biography (?–84 BC)
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Biography (138–78 BC) (nickname Felix (‘Lucky’))
- Lucius Junius Brutus Biography (fl.500 BC)
- Lucius Licinius Crassus Biography (140–91 BC)
- Lucius Licinius Lucullus Biography (c.110–57 BC)
- Lucius Livius Andronicus Biography (fl.3rd-c BC)
- Lucius Mendel Rivers Biography (1905–70)
- Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus Biography (5th-c BC)
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Biography (1825–93)
- Lucius Septimius Severus Biography (c.146–211)
- Lucius Tarquinius Priscus Biography (c.7 th–8 th-c BC)
- Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Biography (6th-c BC)
- Lucknow
- Lucky Luciano Biography (1897–1962) (popular name of Charles Lucianooriginally Salvatore Lucania)
- Lucretia Biography (6th-c BC)
- Lucretia Garfield Biography (1832–1918) (née Rudolph)
- Lucretia Mott Biography (1793–1880) (née Coffin)
- Lucretius Biography (c.94–c.55BC) (in full Titus Lucretius Carus)
- Lucrezia Borgia Biography (1480–1519)
- Lucy (Ware) Hayes Biography (1831–89) (née Webb)
- Lucy Beaman Taylor Biography (1833–1910) (née Hobbs)
- Lucy Craft Laney Biography (1854–1933)
- Lucy M Lewis Biography (1895–1992)
- Lucy Mitchell Biography (1878–1967) (née Sprague)
- Lucy Stone Biography (1818–93)
- Lucy Walter Biography (c.1630–58) (known as Mrs Barlow)
- Lucy Wheelock Biography (1857–1946)
- Lucy Whitehead Peabody Biography (1861–1949) (née McGill)
- Lud
- Luddites
- Luderitz (formerly Angra Pequena)
- Ludlow
- Ludolf Backhuysen Or Bakhuizen Biography (1631–1708)
- Ludolph Van Ceulen Biography (1540–1610)
- Ludovic Halévy Biography (1834–1908)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori Biography (1672–1750)
- Ludovico Ariosto Biography (1474–1533)
- Ludovico Dolce Biography (1508–68)
- Ludovico I (of Bourbon) Biography (1773–1803)
- Ludovico III (Gonzaga) Biography (1412/14–78)
- Ludovico Sforza Biography (1451–1508) (known as the Moor)
- Ludvík Svoboda Biography (1895–1979)
- Ludwig (Andreas) Feuerbach Biography (1804–72)
- Ludwig (Eduard) Boltzmann Biography (1844–1906)
- Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein Biography (1889–1951)
- Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm Freiherr Von Lützow Biography (1782–1834)
- Ludwig Albert Ganghofer Biography (1855–1920)
- Ludwig Anzengruber Biography (1839–89)
- Ludwig Aschoff Biography (1866–1942)
- Ludwig Averkamp Biography (1927– )
- Ludwig Bechstein Biography (1801–60)
- Ludwig Beck Biography (1880–1944)
- Ludwig Bemelmans Biography (1898–1962)
- Ludwig Erhard Biography (1897–1977)
- Ludwig I Von Bayern Biography (1786–1868)
- Ludwig II Biography (1845–86) (nickname Mad King Ludwigalso known as Louis II)
- Ludwig III Biography (880–928) (known as the Blind)
- Ludwig Kaas Biography (1881–1952)
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Biography (1886–1969) (also spelled Miësoriginally Ludwig Mies)
- Ludwig Mond Biography (1839–1909)
- Ludwig Prandtl Biography (1875–1953)
- Ludwig Renn Biography (1889–1979) (originally Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golssenau)
- Ludwig Ritter Von Köchel Biography (1800–77)
- Ludwig Thoma Biography (1867–1921) (pseudonym Peter Schlemihl)
- Ludwig Van Beethoven Biography (1770–1827)
- Ludwig Von Benedek Biography (1804–81)
- Ludwig Von Mises Biography (1881–1973)
- Ludwig Von Siegen Biography (1609–c.1675)
- Ludwig Windthorst Biography (1812–91)
- Ludwigshafen (am Rhein)
- Luftbrücke
- Luftwaffe ((Ger ‘air-weapon’))
- Lug (Lughor Lugus)
- Lugano
- Lugansk (formerly Voroshilovgrad (1970–91))
- Lugeing
- Lugo (Lat Lucus Augusti)
- Lugworm
- Luhya
- Luigi (Gino) Ligutti Biography (1895–1984)
- Luigi (Rodolfo) Boccherini Biography (1743–1805)
- Luigi Alamanni Biography (1495–1556)
- Luigi Amedeo Of Savoia-Aosta Biography (1873–1933)
- Luigi Angeloni Biography (1759–1842)
- Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo Biography (1852–1906) (known as Gandolin)
- Luigi Cadorna Biography (1815–97)
- Luigi Cadorna Biography (1850–1928)
- Luigi Capello Biography (1859–1941)
- Luigi Capuana Biography (1839–1915)
- Luigi Carlo Farini Biography (1812–66)
- Luigi Chiarelli Biography (1884–1947)
- Luigi Da Porto Biography (1485–1529)
- Luigi Dallapiccola Biography (1904–75)
- Luigi De' Medici Biography (1759–1830)
- Luigi Einaudi Biography (1874–1961)
- Luigi Facta Biography (1861–1930)
- Luigi Federico (Count) Menabrea Biography (1809–96)
- Luigi Federzoni Biography (1878–1967)
- Luigi Galvani Biography (1737–98)
- Luigi Girolamo Pelloux Biography (1839–1924)
- Luigi Longo Biography (1900–80)
- Luigi Luzzatti Biography (1841–1927)
- Luigi Malerba Biography (1927– ) (pseudonym of Luigi Bonardi)
- Luigi Mascherpa Biography (1893–1944)
- Luigi Meneghello Biography (1922– )
- Luigi Nazari Di Calabiana Biography (1808–93)
- Luigi Nono Biography (1924–90)
- Luigi Palma Di (Count) Cesnola Biography (1832–1904)
- Luigi Pirandello Biography (1867–1936)
- Luigi Porro Lambertenghi Biography (1780–1860)
- Luigi Pulci Biography (1432–84)
- Luigi Russo Biography (1892–1961)
- Luigi Santucci Biography (1918– )
- Luigi Settembrini Biography (1813–76)
- Luigi Sturzo Biography (1871–1959)
- Luis Antonio Ferré Biography (1904–2003)
- Luis Astrana Marín Biography (1889–1960)
- Luis Buñuel Biography (1900–83)
- Luis De Góngora Y Argote Biography (1561–1627)
- Luis De Hoyos Sáinz Biography (1868–1951)
- Luis De Molina Biography (1535–1600)
- Luis De Requesens Y Zuñiga Biography (1528–76)
- Luis De Ulloa Y Pereira Biography (1584–1674) (pseudonym ‘Lisardo’)
- Luis De Zapata De Chaves Biography (1526–95)
- Luis Diego Cuscoy Biography (1907–87)
- Luis Federico Leloir Biography (1906–87)
- Luis Felipe Madeira Caeiro Figo Biography (1972– ) (known as Figo)
- Luis Felipe Vivanco Biography (1907–75)
- Luis Fernández Ardavín Biography (1891–1962)
- Luis García (Marti) Berlanga Biography (1921– )
- Luis Goytisolo Biography (1935– )
- Luis Gálvez De Montalvo Biography (1546–c.91)
- Luis Huerta Navas Biography (1889–?)
- Luis Hurtado De Toledo Biography (1523–90)
- Luis Martín-Santos Biography (1924–64)
- Luis Montoto Y Rautenstrauch Biography (1851–1929)
- Luis Muñoz Marín Biography (1898–1980)
- Luis Mármol Carvajal Biography (c.1520–1600)
- Luis Pacheco De Narváez Biography (fl.1615)
- Luis Palés Matos Biography (1898–1959)
- Luis Quiñones De Benavente Biography (c.1593–1651)
- Luis Rafael Sánchez Biography (1936– )
- Luis Taboada Biography (1848–1906)
- Luis W(alter) Alvarez Biography (1911–88)
- Luisa Sanfelice Biography (1764–1800)
- Luisa Tetrazzini Biography (1871–1940)
- Luise Rinser Biography (1911–2002)
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer Biography (1881–1966)
- Luiz Vázquez Fernández Pimentel Biography (1895–1958)
- Lujo Brentano Biography (1844–1931) (popular name of Ludwig Josef Brentano)
- Lukas Foss Biography (1922– ) (originally Lukas Fuchs)
- Luke (Potter) Poland Biography (1815–87)
- Luke Hansard Biography (1752–1828)
- Luke, Gospel According To
- Lulu Von Strauß Und Torney Biography (1873–1956)
- Luman Reed Biography (1787–1836)
- Lumbago
- Lumbar Puncture
- Lumbini
- Lumen
- Luminaires
- Luminance
- Luminescence
- Luminism
- Luminosity
- Luminous Flux
- Luminous Intensity
- Lumière Brothers
- Lumpsucker
- Luna B(ergere) Leopold Biography (1915–2006)
- Luna Programme
- Lunar Orbiter Programme
- Lund
- Lundy Island
- Lune
- Lungfish
- Lungs
- Lungshan
- Lungwort
- Luo
- Luoyang Or Loyang
- Lupercalia
- Lupin
- Lupus (astronomy) ((Lat ‘wolf’))
- Lupus Vulgaris
- Luray
- Lurcher
- Lurgan
- Lusaka
- Lusophone Community (formally the Comunidad dos Paises de Língua Portuguesa)
- Lute
- Luteinizing Hormone (LH)
- Luther (Halsey) Gulick Biography (1865–1918)
- Luther Burbank Biography (1849–1926)
- Luther Martin Biography (c.1748–1826)
- Luther Pfahler Eisenhart Biography (1876–1965)
- Luther Standing Bear Biography (?1868–?1939) (pseudonym Chief Standing Bear)
- Lutheranism
- Lutine Bell
- Luton
- Lux
- Luxembourg (city)
- Luxembourg Or Luxemburg (country)
- Luxembourg, Palais Du
- Luxemburger
- Luxemburgse Kwestie (Eng Luxemburg question)
- Luxor (Arabic al-Uqsoror al-Uqsur)
- Luzon
- Luís Vaz De Camoens Or Camões Biography (1524–80)
- Lvov (Pol LwowGer LembergUkrainian Lwiw)
- Lycanthropy
- Lyceum
- Lych-gate (also spelled lich-gate)
- Lycia
- Lycra®
- Lycurgus Biography (c.390–c.325 BC)
- Lycurgus Biography (c.7th-c BC)
- Lycurgus
- Lydia
- Lydia (Estes) Pinkham Biography (1819–83)
- Lydia Darragh Biography (1729–89) (née Barrington)
- Lydia Jane Roberts Biography (1879–1965)
- Lydia Maria Child Biography (1802–80) (née Francis)
- Lydia Sigourney Biography (1791–1865) (originally Lydia Howard Huntley)
- Lyman (James) Briggs Biography (1874–1963)
- Lyman Abbott Biography (1835–1922)
- Lyman Beecher Biography (1775–1863)
- Lyman Copeland Draper Biography (1815–91)
- Lyman Trumbull Biography (1813–96)
- Lyme Disease
- Lymph
- Lymphocyte
- Lymphogranuloma Venereum
- Lymphoid Tissue
- Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin's)
- Lynda Benglis Biography (1941– )
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Biography (1908–73) (also known as LBJ)
- Lynn (Alexander) Margulis Biography (1938– )
- Lynn (Russell) Chadwick Biography (1914–2003)
- Lynn Alfred Townsend Biography (1919– )
- Lynn Davies Biography (1942– )
- Lynn Fontanne Biography (1887–1983) (originally Lillie Louise Fontanne)
- Lynn Hoffman Biography (1924– )
- Lynn Joseph Frazier Biography (1874–1947)
- Lynn M(oorhead) Riddiford Biography (1936– )
- Lynn Ray Sykes Biography (1937– )
- Lynn Seymour Biography (1939– ) (originally Lynn Springbett)
- Lynn Thorndike Biography (1882–1965)
- Lynne (Reid) Banks Biography (1929– )
- Lynne Truss Biography (1955– )
- Lynx
- Lynx
- Lyon (Eng also Lyonsancient Lugdunum)
- Lyonel (Charles Adrian) Feininger Biography (1871–1956)
- Lyophilization Or Freeze Drying
- Lyra ((‘harp’))
- Lyre
- Lyrebird
- Lysander Biography (?–395 BC)
- Lysias Biography (c.445–c.380 BC)
- Lysimachus Biography (c.355–281 BC)
- Lysippos Or Lysippus Of Sicyon Biography (4th-c BC)
- Lysithea
- Lysosome
- Lysozyme
- Lytham St Anne's
- László Moholy-Nagy Biography (1895–1946)
- Látrabjarg
- Lázaro Cárdenas Biography (1895–1970)
- Légion D'Honneur ((Legion of Honour))
- Léo Ferré Biography (1916–93)
- Léo Malet Biography (1909–96)
- Léon (Joseph Florentin) Bonnat Biography (1833–1922)
- Léon Bakst Biography (1866–1924) (originally Lev Samuilovich Rosenberg)
- Léon Bloy Biography (1846–1917)
- Léon Blum Biography (1872–1950)
- Léon Ernest Gaumont Biography (1864–1946)
- Léon Goossens Biography (1897–1988)
- Léon-Paul Fargue Biography (1876–1947)
- Léonard Limousin Or Limosin Biography (c.1505–77)
- Léonide Massine Biography (1896–1979) (originally Leonid Fyodorovich Miassin)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor Biography (1906–2001)
- Lóvere
- Lübeck
- Lüneburg
- Lüneburger Heide ((‘Luneburg Heath’))
- M I Finley Biography (1912–86) (originally Moses Finklestein)
- M Vasalis Biography (1909–98) (pseudonym of Margaretha Leenmans)
- M'Zab Valley
- M(arion) King Hubbert Biography (1903–89)