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1,666 profilesLal Bahadur Shastri
2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966
Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian statesman who served as the second Prime Minister of India. A follower of Mahatma Gand...
Langston Hughes
1 February 1901 – 22 May 1967
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist who became a leading figure of the Harle...
Larry Ellison
17 August 1944 – present
Larry Ellison is an American businessman who co-founded the software company Oracle in 1977 and led it as chief executiv...
Larry Page
26 March 1973 – present
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and businessman, born in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1973. With Sergey Brin...
Lata Mangeshkar
28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022
Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and one of the most celebrated and influential singers in the history of I...
Lázaro Cárdenas
21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican general and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. He is...
Le Corbusier
6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, and urban planner who became one o...
LeBron James
30 December 1984 – present
LeBron James is an American basketball player who entered the NBA as the first overall draft pick in 2003 and has won fo...
Lech Wałęsa
29 September 1943 – present
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist who co-founded and led Solidarity, t...
Lee Byung-chul
12 February 1910 – 19 November 1987
Lee Byung-chul was a South Korean businessman who founded the Samsung Group. He started Samsung as a trading company in...
Lee de Forest
26 August 1873 – 30 June 1961
Lee de Forest was an American inventor and a pioneer of radio and sound-on-film motion pictures. He is best known for in...
Lee Kuan Yew
16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015
Lee Kuan Yew was a Singaporean statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. He is wi...
Leo Africanus
c. 1494 – c. 1554
Leo Africanus (c. 1494 - c. 1554), born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in Granada, was an Andalusi diplomat, traveler a...
Leo Baekeland
14 November 1863 – 23 February 1944
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist and inventor best known for inventing Bakelite, the first fully syn...
Leo Esaki
12 March 1925 – present
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who discovered electron tunnelling in semiconductors and invented the tunnel (Esaki) d...
Leo Tolstoy
9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910
Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often ranked among the greatest write...
Leon Battista Alberti
14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian humanist, architect, and polymath, often cited as an archetype of the Renaissance u...
Leon Trotsky
7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and politician who was a key leader of the October Revolutio...
Leonard Bernstein
25 August 1918 – 14 October 1990
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist and educator, among the most prominent figures in 20th-ce...
Leonard Cohen
21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet and novelist whose work explored religion, desire, politics and lo...
Leonardo da Vinci
15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519
Italian polymath of the High Renaissance whose achievements spanned painting, anatomy, engineering, and invention.
Leonhard Euler
15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, widely considered one of the greatest a...
Leonora Carrington
6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. Known for her mysterious, dreamlike image...
Léopold Sédar Senghor
9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, cultural theorist, and politician who served as the first president of Sene...
Lester B. Pearson
23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972
Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian scholar, statesman, and diplomat who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada fr...
Lev Landau
22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968
Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968) was a Soviet theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions across physics,...
Lev Yashin
22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990
Lev Yashin was a Soviet goalkeeper who spent his entire club career with Dynamo Moscow and made 78 appearances for the S...
Lewis Carroll
27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English author, mathematician and photograph...
Leymah Gbowee
1 February 1972 – present
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist and social worker who organised the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a...
Li Hongzhang
15 February 1823 – 7 November 1901
Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) was a leading Qing dynasty statesman, general, and diplomat who dominated Chinese foreign polic...
Li Ka-shing
1928 – present
Li Ka-shing is a Hong Kong businessman, born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, in 1928, whose family moved to Hong Kong in 1940. H...
Li Qingzhao
1084 – c. 1155
Li Qingzhao (1084-c. 1155) was a Song dynasty writer widely regarded as the greatest female poet in Chinese history, cel...
Li Shizhen
3 July 1518 – 1593
Li Shizhen (1518-1593) was a Chinese physician, naturalist, and pharmacologist of the Ming dynasty. He is best known for...
Lin Zexu
30 August 1785 – 22 November 1850
Lin Zexu (1785-1850) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official best known for his vigorous campaign against the opium trade as...
Lina Bo Bardi
5 December 1914 – 20 March 1992
Lina Bo Bardi was an Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect and designer who became a major figure in 20th-century B...
Linoy Ashram
13 May 1999 – present
Linoy Ashram is an Israeli former rhythmic gymnast. She won the individual all-around gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olymp...
Linus Pauling
28 February 1901 – 19 August 1994
Linus Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist whose work on the nature of the chemical bond and molecular str...
Linus Torvalds
28 December 1969 – present
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who created the Linux kernel and remains its principal maintainer...
Lise Meitner
7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who provided the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fis...
Little Richard
5 December 1932 – 9 May 2020
Little Richard was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who was a foundational figure in the emergence of rock an...
Liu Xiaobo
28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017
Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, writer and human rights advocate. He took part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pr...
Lord Byron
22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement, fam...
Lord Kelvin
26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who formulated the abso...
Lorenzo de' Medici
1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492
Lorenzo de' Medici, called 'the Magnificent', was the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the height of the...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017
Lotfi A. Zadeh was an Azerbaijani-born American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist. He joined the...
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811
Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) was a French admiral and explorer who led the first official French circumnavi...
Louis Armstrong
4 August 1901 – 6 July 1971
American trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, one of the most influential figures in jazz, whose career spanned five d...
Louis Daguerre
18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photography pioneer who invented the daguerreotype, the first publi...