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- Lee, Richard Henry Lee
leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794) - Lee, Tsung Dao Lee
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926) - Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam
United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973) - Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick
United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970) - Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) - Le Gallienne, Eva Le Gallienne
United States actress (born in England) (1899-1991) - Leger, Fernand Leger
French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Lehar, Franz Lehar
Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948) - Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716) - Leigh, Vivien Leigh
English film actress (1913-1967) - Lemaitre, Georges Henri Lemaitre, Edouard Lemaitre
Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966) - Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, John Uhler
United States film actor (1925-2001) - Lenard, Philipp Lenard
German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947) - Lendl, Ivan Lendl
United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships - L'Enfant, Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Charles L'Enfant
United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825) - Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) - Lennon, John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) - Le Notre, Andre Le Notre
French landscape gardener who designed many formal gardens including the parks of Versailles (1613-1700) - Leo I, St. Leo I, Leo the Great
Italian pope from 440 to 461 who extended the authority of the papacy to the west and persuaded Attila not to attack Rome (440-461) - Leo III
Italian pope from 795 to 816 who in 800 crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans (750-816) - Bruno, Leo IX, Bruno of Toul
German pope from 1049 to 1054 whose papacy was the beginning of papal reforms in the 11th century (1002-1054) - Leo X, Giovanni de'Medici
son of Lorenzo de'Medici and pope from 1513 to 1521 who excommunicated Martin Luther and who in 1521 bestowed on Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith (1475-1521) - Leo XIII, Gioacchino Pecci, Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci
Italian pope from 1878 to 1903 who was interested in the advancement of learning and who opened the Vatican secret archives to all scholars - Leonard, Elmore Leonard, Elmore John Leonard, Dutch Leonard
United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925) - Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect - Leonidas
king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC) - Leontief, Wassily Leontief
United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999) - Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
Russian writer (1814-1841) - Lerner, Alan Jay Lerner
United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986) - Lesseps, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps
French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894) - Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing
English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) - Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781) - Leuwenhoek, Leeuwenhoek, Anton van Leuwenhoek, Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723) - Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss
French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908) - Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis
English critic and novelist - Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Harry Sinclair Lewis
United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) - Lewis, John L. Lewis, John Llewelly Lewis
United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969) - Lewis, Meriwether Lewis
United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809) - Lewis, Carl Lewis, Frederick Carleton Lewis
United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961) - Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935) - Libby, Willard Frank Libby
United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980) - Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein
United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997) - Lie, Trygve Lie, Trygve Halvden Lie
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968) - Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani
queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917) - Lillie, Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel
British actress (born in Canada) (1898-1989) - Lin, Maya Lin
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959) - Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States - Lind, Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale
Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887) - Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) - Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
United States poet who traveled the country trading his poems for room and board (1879-1931) - Lindsay, Howard Lindsay
United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931) - Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, Karl Linne
Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778) - Lipchitz, Jacques Lipchitz
United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973) - Lipmann, Fritz Albert Lipmann
United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986) - Li Po
Chinese lyric poet (700-762) - Lippi, Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469) - Lippi, Filippino Lippi
Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504) - Lippmann, Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist who developed the first color photographic process (1845-1921) - Lippmann, Walter Lippmann
United States journalist (1889-1974) - Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscom Jr.
United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919) - Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister
English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912) - Liston, Sonny Liston, Charles Liston
United States prizefighter who lost his world heavyweight championship to Cassius Clay in 1964 (1932-1970) - Liszt, Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886) - Littre, Maximilien Paul Emile Littre
French lexicographer (1801-1881) - Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
United States suffragist (1820-1905) - Livingston, Robert R. Livingston
American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813) - Livingstone, David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) - Livy, Titus Livius
Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17) - Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd
United States comic actor in silent films - Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton
English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948) - Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856) - Locke, John Locke
English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) - Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940) - Loeb, Jacques Loeb
United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924) - Loewe, Frederick Loewe
United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987) - Loewi, Otto Loewi
United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961) - London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882) - Loos, Adolf Loos
Austrian architect (1870-1933) - Loren, Sophia Loren, Sofia Scicolone
Italian film actress (born in 1934) - Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (1853-1928) - Lorenz, Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz
Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989) - Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent
Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492) - Lorre, Peter Lorre, Laszlo Lowestein
United States actor (born in Hungary) noted for playing sinister roles (1904-1964) - Louis I, Louis the Pious
third son of Charlemagne and king of France and Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (778-840) - Louis II, Louis le Begue, Louis the Stammerer, Louis the German
king of France and Germany (846-879) - Louis III
son of Louis II and king of the France and Germany (863-882) - Louis IV, Louis d'Outremer
king of France (921-954) - Louis V, Louis le Faineant
the last Carolingian king of France (967-987) - Louis VI, Louis the Far, Louis the Wideawake, Louis the Bruiser
king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137) - Louis VII
king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180) - Louis VIII
king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226) - Saint Louis, St. Louis, Louis IX
king of France and son of Louis VIII - Louis X, Louis le Hutin, Louis the Quarreller
king of France (1289-1316) - Louis XI
king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483) - Louis XII
king of France who was popular with his subjects (1462-1515) - Louis XIII
king of France from 1610 to 1643 who relied heavily on the advice of Cardinal Richelieu (1601-1643) - Louis XIV, Sun King, Louis the Great
king of France from 1643 to 1715 - Louis XV
grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774) - Louis XVI
king of France from 1774 to 1792 - Louis, Joe Louis, Joseph Louis Barrow
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981) - Lovelace, Richard Lovelace
English poet (1618-1857) - Lovell, Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913) - Low, David Low, Sir David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963) - Lowell, Abbott Lawrence Lowell
United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943) - Lowell, Amy Lowell
United States poet (1874-1925) - Lowell, Percival Lowell
United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916) - Lowell, Robert Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.
United States poet (1917-1977) - Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry
English novelist (1909-1957) - Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry
English painter (1887-1976) - Lozier, Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier
United States physician who in 1863 founded a medical school for women (1813-1888) - Lubitsch, Ernst Lubitsch
German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947) - Lucas, George Lucas
United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) - Lucullus, Licinius Lucullus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus
Roman general famous for self-indulgence and giving lavish banquets (circa 110-57 BC) - Luce, Clare Booth Luce
United States playwright and public official (1902-1987) - Luce, Henry Luce, Henry Robinson Luce
United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967) - Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus
Roman philosopher and poet - Luculus, Lucius Licinius Luculus
Roman general famous for giving lavish banquets (110-57 BC) - Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, Bela Ferenc Blasko
United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956) - Luke, Saint Luke, St. Luke
(New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel - Lully, Jean Baptiste Lully, Lulli, Giambattista Lulli
French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687) - Lully, Raymond Lully, Ramon Lully
Spanish philosopher (1235-1315) - Lunt, Alfred Lunt
United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977) - Luther, Martin Luther
German theologian who led the Reformation - Lutyens, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens
English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944) - Lyly, John Lyly
English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606) - Lysander
Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC) - Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976) - Lysimachus
Macedonian general under Alexander the Great - Lysippus
Greek sculptor (4th century BC) - Lytton, First Baron Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
English writer of historical romances (1803-1873) - MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur
United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II - Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay
English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859) - Macbeth
king of Scotland (died in 1057) - MacDowell, Edward MacDowell
United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908) - Rob Roy, MacGregor, Robert MacGregor
Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734) - Mach, Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916) - Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli
a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) - Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820) - MacLeish, Archibald MacLeish
United States poet (1892-1982) - Macleod, John Macleod, John James Rickard Macleod
Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935) - Madison, James Madison, President Madison
4th President of the United States - Madonna, Madonna Louise Ciccone
United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958) - Maeterlinck, Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright (1862-1949) - Magellan, Ferdinand Magellan, Fernao Magalhaes
Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain - Maginot, Andre Maginot
French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932) - Magritte, Rene Magritte
Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967) - Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan
United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914) - Mahler, Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911) - Mailer, Norman Mailer
United States writer (born in 1923) - Maillol, Aristide Maillol
French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944) - Maimonides, Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon
Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204) - Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) - Maitland, Frederic William Maitland
English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906) - Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943) - Makarios III
Greek Orthodox bishop and archbishop of Cyprus and the first president of independent Cyprus (1913-1977) - Malachi, Malachias
a Hebrew minor prophet of the 5th century BC - Malamud, Bernard Malamud
United States writer (1914-1986) - Malcolm X, Malcolm Little
militant civil rights leader (1925-1965) - Malebranche, Nicolas de Malebranche
French philosopher (1638-1715) - Malevich, Kazimir Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Russian abstract painter (1878-1935) - Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884-1942) - Mallarme, Stephane Mallarme
French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898) - Mallon, Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary
United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938) - Malone, Edmund Malone, Edmond Malone
English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812) - Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory
English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471) - Malpighi, Marcello Malpighi
Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694) - Malraux, Andre Malraux
French novelist (1901-1976) - Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) - Mamet, David Mamet
United States playwright (born in 1947) - Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) - Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot
French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924) - Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Mandelshtam
Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938) - Manes
a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276) - Manet, Edouard Manet
French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883) - Mann, Thomas Mann
German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) - Mann, Horace Mann
United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) - Mansart, Francois Mansart
French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666) - Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923) - Manson, Sir Patrick Manson
Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922) - Mantegna, Andrea Mantegna
Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506) - Mantell, Gideon Algernon Mantell
English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852) - Mantle, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle
United States baseball player (1931-1997) - Manzoni, Alessandro Manzoni
Italian novelist and poet (1785-1873) - Mao, Mao Zedong, Mao Tsetung
Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) - Marat, Jean Paul Marat
French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793) - Marceau, Marcel Marceau
French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923) - Marciano, Rocco Marciano, Rocky Marciano
United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship in 1952 (1924-1969) - Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) - Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse
United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979) - Marie Antoinette
queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular - Marini, Giambattista Marini, Marino, Giambattista Marino
Italian poet (1569-1625) - Mark, Saint Mark, St. Mark
Apostle and companion of Saint Peter - Markova, Dame Alicia Markova, Lilian Alicia Marks
English ballet dancer (born in 1910) - Markov, Andrei Markov, Markoff, Andre Markoff
Russian mathematician (1856-1922) - Marks, Simon Marks, First Baron Marks of Broughton
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964) - Marley, Robert Nesta Marley, Bob Marley
Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981) - Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe
English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression - Marquand, John Marquand, John Philip Marquand
United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960) - Marquette, Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette
French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)