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Alan Ladd, actor
Diane Ladd, actress
La Demoiselle, Miami Indian chief
Winona LaDuke, activist, writer
Lady Antebellum, country music band
Susette La Flesche , reformer, writer, and lecturer
Christine Lagarde, political figure, business personality
Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer and photographer
Tim LaHaye, clergyman, writer
Jhumpa Lahiri , writer
Ray Lahood , government official
Christine Lahti, actress
Laika, dog, astronaut
Ricki Lake, actor, TV personality
Veronica Lake, actress
Dalai Lama, religious figure
Kendrick Lamar, rapper
Hedy Lamarr, actress
Fernand Lamaze, physician
Miranda Lambert, country singer
Louis L'Amour, writer
Dorothy Lamour , actress
Burt Lancaster, actor, movie producer
Martin Landau, actor
Ann Landers, columnist
John Landis, writer, director, producer
Mark Landis, fraud
Michael Landon, actor, producer-director, writer
Ali Landry, actor
Burton Lane, composer
Diane Lane, actor
Nathan Lane, actor, singer
Ronnie Lane, rock musician
Fritz Lang, filmmaker
k.d. lang, singer, songwriter
Dorothea Lange, photographer
Jessica Lange, actress
John Mercer Langston, U.S. public official, diplomat, educator
Jack La Lanne, bodybuilder
Angela Lansbury, actor
Sherry Lansing, business personality, filmmaker, philanthropist
Meyer Lansky, mobster
Jeanne Lanvin , fashion designer
Phar Lap, racehorse
Morris Lapidus, architect
Frances Moore LappÃ© , writer
John Larroquette, actor
Nella Larsen, writer
Brie Larson, actor
Nicolette Larson, country/pop singer
Stieg Larsson, writer
Ali Larter, actor
Eriq La Salle, actor, director
Pedro Lascurain, political figure
Queen Latifah, actor, rapper, singer
Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor
Mary Jane Latsis, mystery writer
EstÃ©e Lauder, beautician, business executive
Matt Lauer, broadcast journalist
James Laughlin, editor, publisher, poet
Cyndi Lauper, musician, singer
Stan Laurel, comic actor
Hugh Laurie, actor, writer
Piper Laurie, actress
Paul Lauterbur, inventor
Taylor Lautner, actor
Avril Lavigne, singer
Antoine Lavoisier, chemist
Jude Law, actor
Peter Lawford, actor
Fergal Lawler , drummer
Lucy Lawless, actor
Ernest O. Lawrence, physicist
Jennifer Lawrence, actor
Joey Lawrence, actor, singer
Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian
Halldor Kiljan Laxness, novelist, poet, playwright
Shelly Lazarus, advertising executive
Lazarus of Bethany, biblical figure, saint
George Lazenby, actor, model
Nicholas Lea, actor
Cloris Leachman, actress
Lead Belly, singer, guitarist
Mary Douglas Leakey, archaeologist and paleontologist
Sir David Lean, director, editor, producer, writer
Edward Lear, poet, Humorist
Norman Lear, television producer, political activist
Denis Leary, actor, comedian
Timothy Leary, psychologist, writer, outlaw
Matt LeBlanc, actor
Tanaquil Le Clercq, ballerina
Katie Ledecky, swimmer
Heath Ledger, actor
Amy Lee, singer
Ang Lee, filmmaker
Bill Lann Lee , government official
Bruce Lee, actor, martial artist
Chang-Rae Lee , novelist
Christopher Lee, actor
Harper Lee, author
James Warren Lee, zoologist
Jason Lee, actor
Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actor
Spike Lee, filmmaker, actor
Stan Lee, writer, editor
Tommy Lee, rock musician
Wen Ho Lee, scientist
Chuan Leekpai, Thai political leader
Yuan T. Lee, chemist
John Legend, singer, songwriter, pianist
Legolas, fictional elf
Michel Legrand, composer
John Leguizamo, actor, comedian
Ernest Lehman, writer
Tom Lehrer, mathematician, Humorist
Harvey Leibenstein, economist
Annie Leibovitz, photographer
Gottfried Leibniz, mathematician, philosopher
Janet Leigh, actor
Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
Mike Leigh, director, screenwriter
Vivien Leigh, actor
Stanislaw Lem, writer
Jack Lemmon, actor
Madeleine L'Engle, writer
Vladimir I. Lenin, revolutionary, political leader
John Lennon, rock musician, songwriter
Jay Leno, comedian, talk show Host
Melissa Leo, actor
Pope Leo X, pope, religious figure
Elmore Leonard, writer
Sheldon Leonard, actor, producer, director
Sergio Leone, filmmaker
Carolyn Leonhart, singer
Tea Leoni, actor
Def Leppard, rock band
Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist, playwright, screenwriter
Phil Lesh, bass player
Doris Lessing, writer
Jared Leto, actor
David Letterman, talk show host
Katie Leung, actor
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, mathematician, astronomer
Denise Levertov, poet
William Hesketh Lever, soap-maker, philanthropist
Zachary Levi, actor
Barry Levinson, filmmaker
William J. Levitt, housing developer
Chandra Levy, murder victim
Seth Lewelling, horticulturist, developer of several varieties of fruit
Ginger Ehn Lew, government official
Monica Lewinsky, intern
C.S. Lewis, writer
Edmonia Lewis, sculptor
Jerry Lee Lewis, rock musician
Jerry Lewis, actor, comedian, filmmaker
John R. Lewis, civil rights leader and U.S. Representative (D.-Ga)
Juliette Lewis, actress
Matthew Lewis, actor
Reginald Lewis, business leader
Robert Lewis, actor, director, acting teacher
Sinclair Lewis, writer
Gong Li, actor
Jet Li, actor
I. Lewis Scooter" Libby", Lawyer, political figure
Liberace, pianist
Daniel Libeskind, architect
Roy Lichtenstein, painter, sculptor
G. Gordon Liddy, radio personality, political scandal figure
Joseph Lieberman, political figure
Richard Lieber, pioneering conservationist
Ted Ligety, skiier
Mary Todd Lincoln, U.S. First Lady
Ray Liotta, actor
Lilith, Legendary early woman
Liliuokalani, royalty
Matthew Lillard, actor
Evangeline Lilly, actor
Adriana Lima, model
Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
Limp Bizkit, rock band
Jeremy Lin, basketball player
Maya Lin, architect, artist
Sarah Bush Lincoln, stepmother of Abraham Lincoln
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Astrid Lindgren, writer
Richard Linklater, filmmaker
Laura Linney, actor
Mona Lisa, artist's model
Franz Liszt, composer, pianist
John Lithgow, actor
Sacheen Littlefeather, actress
Rich Little, impressionist, comedian
Andrew Litton, music director, conductor
Brian B-rok Littrell, singer/songwriter
Lucy Liu, actor, model
Live, rock group
Blake Lively, rock group
Jay Livingston, pop composer and lyricist
Tzipi Livni, political leader
Desmond Llewelyn, actor
Carli Lloyd, soccer player
Christopher Lloyd, actor
Edward Lloyd, business personality
Harold Lloyd, actor, filmmaker
Jake Lloyd, actor
Rebecca Lobo, basketball player
Ryan Lochte, swimmer
Alain LeRoy Locke, writer, educator
Gary Locke , governor
Sondra Locke, actress, director
Heather Locklear, actor
Belva Ann Lockwood, Washington, DC, lawyer and women's rights activist
Frederick Loewe, composer
Greenbury Logan, soldier in the Texas Revolution
Lara Logan, TV newscaster
Robert Loggia, actor
Lindsay Lohan, actor
Sandra Tsing Loh, writer, performer, musician
Gina Lollobrigida, actor
Carole Lombard, actor
Vince Lombardi, coach
Guy Lombardo, band leader, impressario, speed boat racer
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long, The Mother of Texas
Matt Long, actor
Shelley Long, actor
Claudine Longet, singer, actor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
Michael Longley, poet
Eva Longoria, actor
Pippi Longstocking, literary hero
James Longstreet, Civil War figure
Lisa Lopes, singer
George Lopez, actor, comedian
Jennifer Lopez, actor, singer
Nancy Lopez, golfer
Stefan Lorant, writer, photojournalist
Jack Lord, actor
Lorde, singer, songwriter
Sophia Loren, actor
Peter Lorre, actor
Lucille Lortel, actor, theatre producer
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor
Tina Louise, actress
Demi Lovato, singer, actor
Courtney Love, singer, actor
H.P. Lovecraft, writer
Linda Lovelace, actor, activist
Lyle Lovett, country singer, songwriter
Jon Lovitz, actor, comedian
Juliette Daisy Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America
Rob Lowe, actor
Robert Lowell, poet
Lois Lowry, writer
Myrna Loy, actress
Monica Lozano, newspaper publisher
Ernst Lubitsch, filmmaker
George Lucas, filmmaker, movie producer
Susan Lucci, actor
Clare Boothe Luce, writer, politician
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, gangster
Shannon Lucid, astronaut and biochemist
Lucy, Hominid fossil
Ludacris, rapper
Sybil Ludington, American Revolution heroine
Robert Ludlum, novelist
Daniel K. Ludwig, shipping magnate
Bela Lugosi, actor
Baz Luhrmann, director, producer, actor
John Lukacs, historian
Sidney Lumet, director
Louis LumiÃ©re, inventor, filmmaker
J. Michael Luttig, jurist
James Ellis Lu Valle, chemist
David Lynch, filmmaker
Jane Lynch, actor
Jessica Lynch, soldier
Loretta Lynch, lawyer
Ross Lynch, actor, singer
Paul Lynde, actor
Loretta Lynn, country singer, songwriter
Jeff Lynne, rock musician, music producer
Shelby Lynne, country singer and songwriter
John Lynott, inventor

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