• Lady Louise RothschildLady Louise Rothschild came from a distinguished line of Anglo-Jewish aristocracy.
• Lafayette Mendel1872Nutritional biochemist who co-discovered vitamin A and helped found the science of…
• Lahav Shani1989Orchestra conductor and pianist
• Lajos Biro1928Hungarian screenwriter of early Hollywood (The Last Command, The Private Life of Henry…
• Lalo Schifrin1932Composer of the Mission: Impossible theme and hundreds of film and TV scores
• Lance FortnowComputer & information scientist
• Landon Ronald1873Conductor and composer
• Lane Bryant MalsinLane Bryant Malsin revolutionized the clothing industry with her classy maternity wear…
• Larry Adler1914Virtuoso harmonica player and film composer.
• Larry Brown1940Only coach to win both an NCAA title and an NBA championship
• Larry David1947Comedian, co-creator of Seinfeld and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Larry Ellison1977Founder of Oracle
• Larry Fine1902Comedian and actor of the Three Stooges
• Larry Fink1952Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager (over $10…
• Larry Gelbart1982Wrote Tootsie and Oh, God!
• Larry Guth1977Combinatorial and metric geometry
• Larry King1985American television and radio host (Larry King Live)
• Larry Kramer1935Playwright and AIDS activist who co-founded ACT UP and wrote The Normal Heart.
• Larry Lieber1962Co-created Thor, Iron Man and Ant-Man with his brother Stan Lee
• Larry Page1998Co-founder of Google
• Larry Peerce1930Director ('Goodbye, Columbus', 'The Incident')
• Larry Silverstein1931Real estate developer
• Larry Tanenbaum1945Chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Toronto Raptors (NBA)…
• Lars Ernster1920Biochemist known for research on mitochondrial function and bioenergetics
• Larusso1998French pop singer (born Laetitia Serero), known for the 1998 hit 'Tu m'oublieras'
• Laszlo Biro1899Invented the modern ballpoint pen (the 'biro'), patented in the late 1930s.
• Laszlo Fuchs1924Theory of abelian groups and modules
• Laszlo Kalmar1905Mathematical logic and the foundations of computer science
• László Krasznahorkai2025Hungarian Nobel laureate in literature (2025), author of Satantango
• László Szabó1917Hungarian chess grandmaster
• Laszlo Tisza1907Physicist
• Laszlo Varga1924Classical cellist
• Laura Geller1950One of the first American women rabbis, Laura Geller has repeatedly challenged exclusions…
• Laura Margolis JarblumLaura Margolis Jarblum’s deft management of wartime social services on three continents…
• Laura Nyro1947Singer-songwriter
• Laura Prepon1998Actress, played Donna Pinciotti on That '70s Show
• Laura RidingPoet / lyricist
• Laura Z. HobsonAuthor
• Lauren Bacall1944Acclaimed film actress
• Lauren London1984Actress known for 'ATL' and 'The Game'.
• Lauren TuchmanLauren Tuchman, the first blind woman ordained as a rabbi, is best known for her…
• Laurence H. Tribe1941Constitutional law scholar
• Laurence Sloss1913Geologist who founded the concept of sequence stratigraphy of continental interiors
• Laurence Tisch1923Investor
• Laurence Wolsey2012Authority on integer programming theory and practice
• Laurent AdamowiczFrench-American businessman associated with the luxury food house Fauchon.
• Laurent Fabius1946Prime Minister, President of Constitutional Council
• Laurent Schwartz1950Distribution Theory in Mathematics
• Laurent Weil1963French cinema television journalist (Canal+).
• Lauv1994Pop singer-songwriter known for streaming hits including 'I Like Me Better'.
• Lawrence Einhorn1942Oncologist who developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy that made testicular cancer curable.
• Lawrence FerlinghettiPoet / lyricist
• Lawrence Fogel1928Pioneer of evolutionary computation.
• Lawrence Friedman1930Leading legal historian and law-and-society scholar
• Lawrence Gene Sager1941Constitutional theorist
• Lawrence Grossman1946Cosmochemist who developed the condensation theory of the early solar nebula and…
• Lawrence Hauben1975Co-wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Academy Award 1975)
• Lawrence Kasdan1949Wrote 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
• Lawrence Klein1980Econometric Modeling
• Lawrence Kohlberg1927Psychologist known for the theory of stages of moral development
• Lawrence Kubie1896Psychoanalyst known for work on neurosis and creativity
• Lawrence RabinerComputer & information scientist
• Lawrence Stroll1989Fashion investor who built Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors into global brands
• Lawrence Summers1993Economist
• Lawrence Weiner2017Central figure of conceptual art
• Lazar Berman1930Classical pianist
• Lazăr Edeleanu1861Chemist, first to synthesize amphetamine and inventor of the Edeleanu process
• Lazar KachanovContinuum mechanics
• Lazar Lusternik1899Topology
• Lazăr Șăineanu1859Romanian linguist and philologist of Romance and folklore studies.
• Lazarus Fuchs1833Linear differential equations
• Léa Drucker1972French actress and Cesar Award winner known for Custody and Last Summer.
• Lea Goldberg1911Lea Goldberg was a Russian-Israeli poet, author, playwright, literary translator…
• Lea HurvitzLea Beninson Hurvitz’s memoirs document not only her own life but the struggles of other…
• Lea Michele1986American actress and singer known for playing Rachel Berry on Glee.
• Lea NikelLea Nikel, one of the central pillars of Israeli painting, had more than fifty years of…
• Leah BergsteinLeah Bergstein was the first of the choreographers in Palestine who, at the beginning of…
• Leah Cohen Harby1849Leah “Lee” Cohen Harby was a vibrant member of the Daughters of the American Revolution…
• Leah HorowitzLeah Horowitz was a Ukrainian scholar who wrote extensively about what she thought the…
• Leah Koenig1929Veteran Yiddish-theater and screen actress who appeared in the series Shtisel.
• Leah RachelScreenwriter and creator of the Netflix supernatural drama 'Chambers'.
• Leah Remini1970American actress known for The King of Queens and her documentary work on Scientology.
• Lee Adams1960Lyricist of Bye Bye Birdie
• Lee Cronbach1916Psychometrician who created Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient
• Lee Grant1925Oscar-winning actress ('Shampoo') and documentary director
• Lee Krasner1945Pioneering American Abstract Expressionist painter
• Lee Smolin1955Physicist
• Lee Unkrich1967Oscar-winning director of Toy Story 3 and Coco.
• Lee Weiss Frank1899Lee Weiss Frank worked as a reporter and radio show host, was involved in the Women’s…
• Leigh Bardugo1975American-Israeli fantasy novelist whose Grishaverse books became the Netflix series…
• Leike Kogan1911Lía Gilinski de Kogan, known as Leike Kogan (1911-2001), was a prominent activist in the…
• Leila Josefowicz1977Classical violinist
• Len Blavatnik1986Founder of Access Industries
• Len Wein1974Co-creator of Wolverine (1974) and Swamp Thing (1971)
• Lena Dunham1986American writer and actress who created and starred in Girls.
• Lena Kalisch1989German-Israeli actress and director known for 'The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch.'
• Lena Kenin1897Lena Nemerovsky Kenin made major contributions to both gynecology and psychology with her…
• Lena Levine1903Lena Levine used her medical and psychological training to offer women pioneering…
• Leni YahilLeni Yahil was a German-born Israeli scholar and pioneer of Holocaust research in the…
• Lennie Hayton1949Conductor of On the Town (Academy Award 1949) and Hello, Dolly!
• Lenny Bruce1925Groundbreaking free-speech stand-up comedian
• Lenny Kaye1946Guitarist of the Patti Smith Group and compiler of the 'Nuggets' anthology.
• Lenny Kravitz1989American rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, four-time Grammy winner
• Lenny Krayzelburg2000Swimmer
• Lenore BlumComputer & information scientist
• Lenore Guinzburg Marshall1897Lenore Guinzburg Marshall, novelist, poet, activist, and literary editor, pushed her…
• Leo Aryeh Bornstein1922Established Israel's first plastic surgery department and advanced severe burn management…
• Leo Blech1871Opera conductor and composer
• Leo Brewer1919Physical chemist known for high-temperature thermodynamics
• Leo Buerger1879Physician who first described Buerger's disease, an inflammatory disease of the blood…
• Leo Castelli1957Influential art dealer who originated the modern contemporary-art gallery system and…
• Leo Eitinger1912Psychiatrist who pioneered the study of trauma in Holocaust survivors
• Leo FinziContinuum mechanics
• Leo Forbstein1936Warner Bros music chief
• Leo Gerstenzang1923Invented the cotton swab (Q-tips) in 1923, after watching his wife wrap cotton around a…
• Leo Goodman1928Statistician and sociologist who advanced categorical data analysis
• Leo Hirshfield1896Invented the Tootsie Roll (1896), the individually-wrapped chewy chocolate candy named…
• Leo Hurvich1910Psychologist known for the opponent-process theory of color vision
• Leo Kadanoff1937Physicist
• Leo Kanner1894Psychiatrist who first clinically described infantile autism
• Leo Konigsberger1837Analysis
• Leo Löwenthal1900Frankfurt School scholar of the sociology of literature and mass culture
• Leo Marks1920WWII cryptographer who developed one-time pad ciphers.
• Leo Picard1900Geologist regarded as the father of geology in Israel and a pioneer of its hydrogeology
• Leo Pollak1888Meteorologist known for statistical climatology and early computational methods
• Leo Postman1918Psychologist known for research on perception and memory
• Leo Radom1944Computational chemist known for quantum chemical studies of reactions
• Leo Robin1938Lyricist of 'Thanks for the Memory' (Academy Award 1938) and 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best…
• Leo Sachs1924Geneticist who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via…
• Leo Shuken1939Orchestrator of Stagecoach (Academy Award 1939)
• Leo Spitzer1887Romance philologist and founder of literary stylistics.
• Leo Sternbach1908Chemist who invented the benzodiazepines, including Librium and Valium.
• Leo Strauss1899Political philosopher and scholar of classical political thought
• Leo Szilard1933Nuclear Chain Reaction Concept
• Leo Zippin1905Topology
• Leon Black1951Co-founder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management, a leading private-equity and…
• Leon Blum1872First Jewish (and socialist) Prime Minister of France
• Leon Botstein1946Conductor and educator
• Leon Brunschvicg1869French idealist philosopher
• Leon Cooper1930Physicist
• Leon Cooperman1943Founder of Omega Advisors and former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Leon EdelLiterary & drama critic
• Leon Ehrenpreis1930Partial differential equations
• Leon Festinger1919Social psychologist who developed cognitive dissonance theory
• Leon Fleisher1928Classical pianist
• Leon GreenbergPhysiologist and biomedical researcher
• Leon HenkinComputer & information scientist
• Leon KeyserlingEconomist
• Leon Kirchner1919Classical composer
• Leon Knopoff1925Geophysicist known for theoretical seismology and the physics of earthquakes
• Leon Lederman1922Physicist
• Leon of Modena1571Venetian rabbi, poet, and prolific author who wrote widely read works on Jewish rites and…
• Léon Rosenfeld1904Physicist
• Léon Siritzky1938Built France's third-largest cinema circuit after Gaumont and Pathé
• Leon TrotskyProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
• Leon Uris1924American novelist ('Exodus', 'Mila 18')
• Leonard Adleman1945Co-invented RSA public-key cryptography and pioneered DNA computing.
• Leonard Berkowitz1926Social psychologist known for research on aggression
• Leonard Bernstein1918Composer and conductor
• Leonard Bloomfield1887American linguist, founder of structural linguistics and author of the landmark 1933 book…
• Leonard Carlitz1907Number theory
• Leonard Chess1950Co-founded Chess Records, home of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry
• Leonard Cohen1967Poet and Singer-Songwriter
• Leonard Goldenson1953Built the modern ABC television network
• Leonard Hayflick1928Microbiologist who discovered the Hayflick limit on the number of times human cells…
• Leonard Herzenberg1931Geneticist who invented the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS), transforming cell…
• Leonard Jimmie Savage1917Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
• Leonard Katzman1927Producer and showrunner of the landmark primetime soap Dallas.
• Leonard Kleinrock1961Packet-Switched Networks (Internet Foundation)
• Leonard Krasner1924Clinical psychologist and pioneer of behavior modification
• Leonard Lauder1958Estée Lauder Companies
• Leonard Mandel1927Physicist
• Leonard Mlodinow2010Theoretical physicist and writer
• Leonard Nimoy1931Actor who played Mr. Spock in Star Trek
• Leonard Ornstein1880Physicist
• Leonard Peikoff1933Philosopher and foremost exponent of Ayn Rand's Objectivism.
• Leonard Pinchuk1954Biomedical engineer, inventor of biomedical polymers and vascular stents
• Leonard Rose1918Classical cellist
• Leonard Rosenman1924Film composer
• Leonard Schapiro1908Historian of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party
• Leonard Schiff1915Physicist
• Leonard Slatkin1944Orchestra conductor
• Leonard Stern1938Businessman (Hartz Group)
• Leonard Susskind1940Physicist
• Leonard UllmannPsychologist (behavioral clinical psychology)
• Leone Modena1571 CEVenetian scholar and writer
• Leonhard Nelson1882German philosopher of critical philosophy and ethics
• Leonid Hurwicz1917Nobel laureate (2007) who founded the theory of mechanism design
• Leonid Kantorovich1912Founded linear programming
• Leonid Keldysh1931Physicist
• Leonid Kogan1924Soviet violinist ranked among the foremost of the twentieth century
• Leonid Levin1948Co-discovered NP-completeness (Cook-Levin theorem).
• Leonid Mandelstam1879Physicist
• Leonid Mikhelson1997Chairman of Novatek
• Leonid SedovContinuum mechanics
• Leonid SlepyanContinuum mechanics
• Leonid Stein1934Three-time Soviet chess champion
• Leonor Michaelis1875Biochemist who co-formulated the Michaelis-Menten equation of enzyme kinetics.
• Leopold Auer1845Violinist and teacher
• Leopold Auerbach1828Anatomist who discovered Auerbach's plexus, the nerve network controlling gut movement.
• Leopold Damrosch1832Conductor and composer
• Leopold Freund1868Physician regarded as a founder of medical radiotherapy.
• Leopold Godowsky1870Pianist and composer famed for his transcendentally difficult Chopin studies
• Leopold Godowsky Jr.1935Co-invented Kodachrome (1935), the first successful color film for the masses — with…
• Leopold Infeld1898Physicist
• Leopold Kronecker1823Number theory and algebra
• Leopold Mannes1935Co-invented Kodachrome (1935) with Leopold Godowsky Jr. — two concert musicians who did…
• Leopoldo Nachbin1922Functional analysis and approximation theory
• Lera Auerbach1973Classical composer and pianist
• Lesléa NewmanLesbian feminist writer Lesléa Newman made history in 1989 with her controversial…
• Lesley Gore1946Singer of the pop classic It's My Party.
• Leslie Alexander1943Owned the Houston Rockets (1993–2017)
• Leslie EpsteinAuthor
• Leslie Feinberg1949Leslie Feinberg was a self-described “anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish…
• Leslie FiedlerLiterary & drama critic
• Leslie Foldy1919Physicist
• Leslie Greengard1958Co-invented the fast multipole method.
• Leslie Grossman1971Actress featured across the American Horror Story anthology.
• Leslie Howard1938Actor (Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion), born Leslie Steiner to Hungarian-Jewish immigrants
• Leslie Lamport1941Foundational work on distributed systems
• Leslie Leiserowitz1934Chemist known for molecular crystals and crystal growth
• Leslie Orgel1927Chemist who advanced theories on the chemical origin of life and the RNA world.
• Leslie Spier1893Boasian anthropologist known for his comparative study of the Sun Dance
• Leslie Valiant1949Created the PAC model of machine learning
• Leslie Wexner1963Retail mogul, founder of The Limited and builder of the L Brands apparel and lingerie…
• Lesser Blum1931Theoretical chemist known for liquid-state and electrolyte theory
• Lester LeesFluid mechanics
• Lester Machta1919Meteorologist known for studying atmospheric transport of pollutants and radioactive…
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin1939Co-founder of Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, and a founder of…
• Lev AltshulerContinuum mechanics
• Lev Berg1876Biologist and geographer known for ichthyology and theories of evolution
• Lev Landau1908Theoretical physicist
• Lev Leviev1956Diamond magnate and philanthropist
• Lev LoitsyanskyFluid mechanics
• Lev Okun1929Physicist
• Lev Pitaevskii2021Co-author of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation of Bose-Einstein condensates
• Lev Pitaevsky1933Physicist
• Lev Polugaevsky1934Soviet chess grandmaster, world-title candidate and opening theorist
• Lev Shestov1866Russian existentialist philosopher
• Lev Shnirelman1905Number theory
• Lev Vygotsky1896Psychologist whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
• Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyimc. 1245 CEPhilosopher and encyclopedist whose 'Livyat Hen' surveyed astronomy, mathematics and…
• Levi Eshkol1963Third Prime Minister of Israel
• Levi Strauss1873Blue Jeans and Levi Strauss & Co
• Lew Kowarski1907Physicist
• Lew Wasserman1913Chairman of MCA/Universal
• Lewis Coser1913Pioneer of conflict theory
• Lewis Feuer1912Social theorist
• Lewis Kay1962Biophysicist, developer of NMR methods for protein structure and dynamics
• Lewis Kornhauser1979Law-and-economics scholar
• Lewis Milestone1895Two-time Oscar-winning director ('All Quiet on the Western Front')
• Lewis MumfordProfiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
• Lewis Sarett1917Chemist who achieved the first synthesis of cortisone, enabling its mass production.
• Lewis Wolberg1905Psychiatrist known for work on hypnosis and psychotherapy
• Lewis Wolpert1929Developmental biologist known for the concept of positional information in pattern…
• Lex Fridman2018Computer scientist and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, among the most listened-to…
• Lia Koenig1929Lia Koenig is known as the First Lady of Israeli Yiddish Theater for her complex roles in…
• Lia LeviLia Levi is an Italian novelist, journalist, and children’s books author.
• Lia Van LeerA pioneer in the field of art film programming and film archiving in Israel, Lia van Leer…
• Liah Kor2026Israeli computer scientist
• Liane Brauch Russell1993Vienna-born geneticist of chromosomal sex determination
• Libbie Hyman1888Zoologist whose comprehensive treatises on invertebrates became foundational references.
• Libbie Suchoff Berkson1891Libbie Suchoff Berkson was beloved by generations of campers as Aunt Libbie, director of…
• Libby Holman1904Singer and actress Libby Holman was known as much for her scandalous personal life and…
• Liberman family1950Built JGL Investments from post-war refugee beginnings into one of Australia's largest…
• Licco Amar1891Classical violinist
• Liev Schreiber1967Acclaimed actor of stage and screen, star of Ray Donovan and Spotlight.
• Lil Dicky1988Comedy rapper and creator of the TV series 'Dave'.
• Lila Gleitman1929Psycholinguist known for research on how children acquire word meaning.
• Lili Berger1916A prolific literary critic and essayist who wrote fiction, short stories, and novels…
• Lili Darvas1902Lili Darvas was an internationally acclaimed actress, known on the stage and screen in…
• Lili Kraus1903Classical pianist
• Liliane Atlan1932Liliane Atlan (1932-2011) was a post-World War II French Jewish writer whose…
• Lilli HenochLilli Henoch quickly developed a love for sports as a child and joined the Berlin Sports…
• Lilli MarxBorn in Berlin, Lilli Marx emigrated to England as a young adult but returned to Germany…
• Lilli Palmer1914After fleeing Nazi Germany, Lilli Palmer pursued her acting career in Paris, London…
• Lillian Copeland1932Athletics
• Lillian FadermanHistorian and author renowned for her scholarship on lesbian and LGBT history.
• Lillian Freiman1885Lillian Freiman was unquestionably the most prominent Jewish woman in Canada in the…
• Lillian Fuchs1902Born to a musical family, Lillian Fuchs was a talented pianist, violinist, violist, and…
• Lillian Hellman1905American playwright ('The Little Foxes', 'The Children's Hour')
• Lillian Herstein1886Lillian Herstein was an early twentieth-century teacher and a nationally known labor…
• Lillian Kasindorf Kavey1889Lillian Kasindorf Kavey was a banker, community activist, and advocate for Conservative…
• Lillian Laser StraussLillian Laser Strauss performed pioneering work in public health and child welfare in…
• Lillian Nassau1899Lillian Nassau, the doyenne of New York City antiques dealers, was instrumental in the…
• Lillian R. Lieber1886Frustrated with the way math is taught in schools, Lillian R. Lieber created…
• Lillian Rock1896Lillian Rock was a pioneering twentieth-century lawyer, advocate, and organizer who…
• Lillian Roth1910Lillian Roth, a singer-actor whose career met with early success but was eventually…
• Lillian Ruth Kessler1908Lillian Ruth Kessler created a major export company for automobile parts and heavy…
• Lillian Simon Freehof1906Lillian Simon Freehof (1906-2004) was a leader in developing transcription services for…
• Lillian Wald1867Founder of the Henry Street Settlement and public health nursing, advancing women's and…
• Lillie ShultzLillie Shultz poured her boundless energy into all aspects of her life.
• Lilly Rivlin1936Lilly Rivlin is a documentary filmmaker whose films are centered around feminism, the…
• Lily Collins2020English-American actress
• Lily Edelman1915Lily Edelman, a dynamic and much-sought-after lecturer, committed her life to learning…
• Lily KronbergerLily Kronberger, born in Budapest in 1887, was one of the worlds’ best figure skaters of…
• Lily MontaguLilian Helen Montagu was a British social worker, a magistrate in the London juvenile…
• Lina Abarbanell1879The talented singer Lina Abarbanell had a gift for lighter musicals and operettas with…
• Lina Frank HechtLina Frank Hecht was a prominent figure in the Jewish philanthropic community in late…
• Lina Morgenstern1830In the face of formidable anti-Semitic opposition, Lina Morgenstern was a highly…
• Lina Solomonovna Stern (Shtern)1878Lina Shtern, biochemist and physician, was the first woman professor at the University of…
• Lincoln Wolfenstein1923Physicist
• Linda Lavin1937A prolific performer on stage and small screen, actor-singer Linda Lavin was a role model…
• Linda Lingle1953Linda Lingle was only the second Jewish woman to be elected a United States governor when…
• Linda McCartney1941American photographer, musician, and animal-rights advocate whose rock portraits defined…
• Linda RabinLinda Rabins’s education and career as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer was global…
• Linda Rosenberg MillerLinda Rosenberg Miller devoted herself to Jewish studies and collecting art and…
• Linear Time & ProgressAncientThe Hebraic idea of history as purposeful and progressing (vs. cyclical) — a root of…
• Linoy Ashram2021Rhythmic gymnast
• Lion FeuchtwangerAuthor
• Lionel AbelLiterary & drama critic
• Lionel Bart1930Musical theater songwriter (Oliver!)
• Lionel Moskowitz1936Oceanographer known for the Pierson-Moskowitz ocean wave spectrum
• Lionel Newman1916Film composer and music director
• Lionel Tertis1876Classical violist
• Lionel Tiger1937Anthropologist who coined the term 'male bonding', author of 'Men in Groups'
• Lionel Trilling1905Preeminent American literary critic of the mid-20th century
• Lior Ashkenazi1969Israeli actor known for Foxtrot and Late Marriage.
• Lior Raz1971Israeli actor and co-creator and star of the hit series Fauda.
• Lior Suchard1981Israeli mentalist and 'supernatural entertainer'
• Lipa SchmeltzerHasidic American singer and entertainer.
• Lipman Bers1914Complex analysis and Teichmuller theory
• Lipot Fejer1880Fourier analysis
• Lisa Bonet1967Actress known for 'The Cosby Show', its spin-off 'A Different World', and 'Angel Heart'.
• Lisa Cholodenko2010Writer-director of The Kids Are All Right
• Lisa Hanawalt1983Illustrator and producer of BoJack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie.
• Lisa KronTony Award — Best Musical
• Lisa Kudrow1994Actress, played Phoebe Buffay on Friends
• Lisa LambertTony Award — Best Original Score
• Lisa Loeb1968Singer-songwriter whose Stay (I Missed You) topped the charts.
• Lisa Randall1962Physicist
• Lise Meitner1939Nuclear Fission Explanation
• Lisel MuellerPulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Liudmila Ulitskaia1943Liudmila Ulitskaia is one of Russia’s most famous and celebrated modern writers, known…
• Liviu Librescu2007Aeroelasticity researcher and Holocaust survivor who held a classroom door against the…
• Liz Feldman1977Emmy-nominated writer who created the Netflix dramedy 'Dead to Me'.
• Liz Lerman1947A dancer, choreographer, educator, writer, and collaborator, Liz Lerman is among the…
• Liza CzapnikLiza Czapnik was a Polish freedom fighter during World War II who started working against…
• Lizzie Black Kander1858Lizzie Black Kander was a Jewish philanthropist who turned the recipe book she made for a…
• Lizzie Spiegel Barbe1856Lizzie Spiegel Barbe, a member of a prominent Chicago family, devoted more than fifty…
• Lizzy Caplan1982Actress known for Mean Girls and Masters of Sex
• Lloyd Blankfein1954Former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (2006-2018), leading the firm through the 2008…
• Logan Lerman1992Actor, star of Percy Jackson and The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Lola Kirke2015American actress and singer
• Lonka KorzybrodskaLonka Korzybrodska was an active member of He-Haluz, a resistance movement during World…
• Lord Jonathan Sacks1948British rabbi, philosopher, and theologian
• Lord Robert SkidelskyEconomist
• Lord Thomas BaloghEconomist
• Lore Segal1928A respected writer whose work was informed by her experiences as a child refugee from…
• Loree Rodkin1990sLos Angeles fine-jewelry designer of gothic/rock-and-roll pieces
• Loren Bouchard1970Animation creator behind the Emmy-winning series 'Bob's Burgers' and 'Home Movies'.
• Lorenz Cederbaum1946Theoretical chemist who predicted interatomic Coulombic decay
• Lorenz Hart1895Lyricist of the Rodgers and Hart songbook including My Funny Valentine
• Lorenzo da PontePoet / lyricist
• Lorin Maazel1930Conductor and violinist who led the New York Philharmonic and other major orchestras
• Lorna Lippmann1921Lorna Lippmann (1921-2004) was an Australian researcher and educator who devoted much of…
• Lorne Greene1915Actor known for Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica
• Lorne Michaels1975Created Saturday Night Live in 1975 and has produced it ever since
• Lorraine Schwartz1989Celebrity fine-jeweler ('the Queen of Oscars Bling')
• Lorraine WeinribA professor at the University of Toronto, Weinrib is one of Canada’s foremost authorities…
• Lotfi Zadeh1921Invented fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory.
• Lothar Nordheim1899Physicist
• Lotta Levensohn1882A writer, publicist, and Zionist activist, Lotta Levensohn was among the original…
• Lotte ErrellPhotojournalist Lotte Errell worked tirelessly to make her adventurous travels in Africa…
• Lotte Jacobi1896After leaving Nazi Germany in 1935, Lotte Jacobi became a renowned photographer in New…
• Lou Adler1971Producer of Carole King's 'Tapestry' and The Mamas & the Papas
• Lou Reed1972Songwriter and guitarist, leader of The Velvet Underground and influential solo artist.
• Louis Auslander1928Differential geometry and solvmanifolds
• Louis B. Mayer1924Co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Louis BegleyAuthor
• Louis Blaustein1869Founded American Oil Company (Amoco)
• Louis Brandeis1856US Supreme Court Justice
• Louis Diamond1902Physician regarded as the father of pediatric hematology
• Louis Dublin1882Biostatistics and actuarial science of life expectancy
• Louis Goodman1906Pharmacologist, co-author of the foundational textbook of clinical pharmacology and a…
• Louis Guttman1916Developed the Guttman scale and facet theory in social measurement
• Louis Hartz1955Historian of the liberal tradition in America
• Louis Henkin1917Foremost scholar of international law and human rights
• Louis Jaffe1905Foundational scholar of American administrative law and judicial review of agency action
• Louis Kentner1905Classical pianist
• Louis KronenbergerLiterary & drama critic
• Louis Marcoussis1912Polish-born French Cubist painter and engraver
• Louis Marshall1856Constitutional lawyer and founder-leader of the American Jewish Committee who fought for…
• Louis Marx1919Built Louis Marx and Company into the largest toy manufacturer in the world in the 1950s
• Louis Mordell1888Number theory
• Louis Moreau Gottschalk1829American composer and pianist who fused Creole and Latin rhythms into classical music
• Louis Nirenberg1925Partial differential equations
• Louis RosenheadFluid mechanics
• Louis Schmerling1912Chemist known for hydrocarbon alkylation and catalysis
• Louis Silvers1934Music director of The Jazz Singer
• Louis Siminovitch1920Geneticist regarded as a father of Canadian medical genetics
• Louis SimpsonPulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Louis Slotin1946Manhattan Project physicist who stopped a runaway criticality with his bare hands…
• Louis Teicher1924Pianist (Ferrante & Teicher)
• Louis UntermeyerPoet / lyricist
• Louis Wirth1897Pioneer of urban sociology
• Louis ZukofskyPoet / lyricist
• Louise Dresser1878Louise Dresser was a celebrated singer in vaudeville and musical comedy, as well as a…
• Louise Glück1943Nobel Prize-winning American poet and US Poet Laureate
• Louise Nevelson1899Louise Nevelson belongs to a generation of Manhattan-based painters and sculptors whose…
• Louise Waterman Wise1874Although most historians view Louise Waterman Wise as simply the wife of Stephen S. Wise…
• Louise Weiss1893Considered an architect of European unity, Louise Weiss is best known for her campaigns…
• Lowell Ganz1984Co-writer of Splash, City Slickers and A League of Their Own
• Luba Robin Goldsmith1879In 1902, Luba Robin was the first woman to graduate from the school of medicine at the…
• Lubert Stryer1938Biochemist, author of a leading biochemistry textbook, who elucidated the biochemistry of…
• Luciano Huck1971Brazilian television host and entrepreneur, one of the most popular presenters on TV…
• Luciano Szafir1968Brazilian actor and television presenter known for telenovelas and hosting.
• Lucie DomeierWriter Lucie Domeier is best known for her work critiquing the portrayal and role of…
• Lucie Porges1923Lucie Porges brought a combination of elegance and a relaxed sensibility to her long and…
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl1857French philosopher and anthropologist
• Lucien NeustadtComputer & information scientist
• Lucille Corcos1908Lucille Corcos was celebrated as one of the foremost “modern primitivist” painters in…
• Lucy Fox Robins Lang1884A committed anarchist by age fifteen, Lucy Fox Robins Lang contributed greatly to both…
• Lucy Goldschmidt MosesLucy Moses combined philanthropy on a grand scale with volunteer social work over a long…
• Lucy S. Dawidowicz1915Lucy S. Dawidowicz was an American-Jewish historian whose influential and controversial…
• Lucy Shapiro1940Developmental biologist who revealed how bacterial cells control their cycle in space and…
• Ludimar Hermann1838Physiologist, research on nerve and muscle electrophysiology
• Ludwig Gumplowicz1838Early sociologist who developed a theory of group and ethnic conflict
• Ludwig Hopf1884Applied mathematics
• Ludwig LachmannEconomist
• Ludwig Mond1839Chemist and industrialist known for the Mond nickel-carbonyl process
• Ludwig Traube1818Physician regarded as a founder of experimental pathology in Germany.
• Ludwig von Mises1881Leading economist of the Austrian School and advocate of classical liberalism
• Ludwig Wittgenstein1889Philosopher of language, author of the 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations'.
• Ludwik Fleck1896Physician and philosopher of science, theory of 'thought collectives'
• Ludwik Gross1904Pioneer of viral oncology who showed that viruses can transmit cancer in mammals.
• Ludwik Rajchman1946Polish physician who founded UNICEF (Nobel Peace Prize 1965)
• Ludwik Zamenhof1859Created Esperanto, the world's most widely spoken constructed international language.
• Luis Bacalov1995Composer of Il Postino (Academy Award 1995)
• Luisa Futoransky1939Poet, novelist, music scholar, and journalist, Luisa Futoransky has led a life…
• Luisa Mell1978Brazilian actress and prominent animal-rights activist who founded the Luisa Mell…
• Luise Rainer1937German-Jewish actress, first to win back-to-back Best Actress Oscars (1936-37)
• Lukas Foss1922Composer, conductor and pianist
• Lukas Heller1962Screenwriter of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirty Dozen
• Lyalya KaufmanLyalya Kaufman, the eldest daughter of Sholem Aleichem, is known for her writings in the…
• Lydia Joel1914Lydia Joel began her dance career as a performer, but it was as the editor-in-chief of…
• Lydia PasternakBorn in Moscow into a family of highly successful artists, Lydia Pasternak made a name…
• Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner1871An outstanding bacteriologist and a leading figure in the feminist movement of women…
• Lydia Rapoport1923Lydia Rapoport was a social worker, professor, caseworker, and advocate of social change.
• Lynda Resnick2019Co-owner and vice-chair of The Wonderful Company — POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios…
• Lynn Ahrens1948Broadway lyricist (Ragtime)
• Lynn Cohen1933American character actress known for 'Sex and the City' and 'Munich.'
• Lynn Margulis1938Biologist who established the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles.
• Lynn Schusterman1939Billionaire philanthropist Lynn Schusterman changed the landscape of the American Jewish…
• Lynne Littman1941Oscar- and Emmy-winning director ('Testament', 'Number Our Days')
• Lyudmila UlitskayaAuthor

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