| Earls of Lincoln |
| Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sixteenth President of the United States of America |
| Benjamin Lincoln (1733–1810), American general |
| Jenny Lind (1820–1887), famous Swedish singer |
| Paul Lindau (1839–1919), German dramatist and novelist |
| Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet (1749–1825), French revolutionist |
| John Lindley (1799–1865), English botanist |
| Nathaniel, Baron Lindley (1828–1921), English judge |
| William Lindley (1808–1900), English engineer |
| Mark Prager Lindo (1819–1879), Dutch prose writer |
| Lindsay |
| Robert Lindsay (1532?–1578?), Scottish historian |
| Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), American writer |
| Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), English theologian |
| Gustaf Lindström (1829–1901), Swedish palæontologist |
| Per Henrik Ling (1776–1839), Swedish medical-gymnastic practitioner |
| John Lingard (1771–1851), English historian |
| Ralph Robert Wheeler, Baron Lingen (1819–1905), English civil servant |
| Simon Nicholas Henri Linguet (1736–1794), French journalist and advocate |
| Thomas Linley (1733–1795), English musician |
| John Adrian Louis Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow (1860–1908), British administrator |
| Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish botanist |
| John Linnell (1792–1882), English painter |
| Alexander von Linsingen (1850–1935), Prussian general |
| Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1822–1898), English novelist |
| William James Linton (1812–1897), English wood-engraver, republican and author |
| Bernard Lintot (1675–1736), English publisher |
| Saint Linus, one of the saints of the Gregorian canon |
| Hugues de Lionne (1611–1671), French statesman |
| Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702–1789), French painter |
| Lippi, name of three celebrated Italian painters |
| Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) (1823–1904), American author |
| Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), Belgian scholar |
| Richard Adelbert Lipsius (1830–1892), German Protestant theologian |
| Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton (1850–1931), British merchant |
| Alice Lisle (1614?–1685), English lady, victim of the “Bloody Assizes” |
| Joseph Nicolas de L’Isle (1688–1768), French astronomer |
| Friedrich List (1789–1846), German economist |
| Alberto Lista y Aragón (1775–1848), Spanish poet and educationalist |
| Joseph Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon |
| Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), English naturalist and physician |
| John Liston (c. 1776–1846), English comedian |
| Robert Liston (1794–1847), Scottish surgeon |
| Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian pianist and composer |
| Eliakim Littell (1797–1870), American publisher |
| Little Crow (d. 1863), Hereditary chief of the Sioux Indians |
| Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890), Irish clergyman |
| Adam Littleton (1627–1694), English lexicographer |
| Edward, Lord Littleton (1589–1645), English noble |
| Sir Thomas Littleton (c. 1407–1481), English judge and legal author |
| Little Turtle (1747?–1812), Chief of the Miami Indians |
| Émile Littré (1801–1881), French lexicographer and philosopher |
| Liudprand (c. 922–c. 972), Italian historian and author, Bishop of Cremona |
| Mary Ashton Livermore (1820–1905), American reformer |
| Earls of Liverpool |
| Livia (c. 55 B.C.–29 A.D.), Roman empress |
| Edward Livingston (1764–1836), American jurist and statesman |
| Philip Livingston (1716–1778), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813), American statesman |
| William Livingston (1723–1790), American political leader |
| David Livingstone (1813–1873), Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa |
| Livy (59 B.C.–17 A.D.), Roman historian |
| Gustaf Håkan Jordan Ljunggren (1823–1905), Swedish man of letters |
| Llewelyn, name of two Welsh princes |
| Juan Antonio Llorente (1756–1823), Spanish historian |
| Edward Lloyd (1845–1927), English tenor vocalist |
| William Lloyd (1627–1717), English divine |
| William Watkiss Lloyd (1813–1893), English man of letters |
| David Lloyd George (1863–1945), British statesman |
| Ramon Llull (1232?–1316), Catalan author, mystic and missionary |
| Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician |
| Prince Alexis Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovski (1824–1896), Russian statesman |
| Christian August Lobeck (1781–1860), German classical scholar |
| João Lobeira (c. 1233–1285), Portuguese troubadour |
| Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (?1575–?1627), Portuguese bucolic writer |
| Jerónimo Lobo (1596?–1678), Jesuit missionary |
| Henry Brougham Loch (1827–1900), British colonial administrator |
| Edmund Robertson, Baron Lochee of Gowrie (1845–1911), British jurist and politician |
| Matthias Lock (c. 1710–1765), English furniture designer and cabinet-maker |
| David Ross Locke (1833–1888), American humorist |
| John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher |
| Matthew Locke (1621/2–1677), English musician |
| William John Locke (1863–1930), English novelist and playwright |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895), English man of letters |
| George Lockhart (1673–1731), Scottish writer and politician |
| John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854), Scottish writer and editor |
| Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart (1841–1900), British general |
| Édouard Lockroy (1838–1913), French politician |
| Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917), American reformer |
| Sir Frank Lockwood (1846–1897), English lawyer |
| Wilton Lockwood (1861–1914), American artist |
| Norman Lockyer (1836–1920), English astronomer |
| William Albert Locy (1857–1924), American zoologist |
| Lodewijk van Nassau (1538–1574), Dutch noble |
| Edmund Lodge (1756–1839), English writer on heraldry |
| Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), American statesman and author |
| Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), English physicist |
| Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Carl Loewe (1796–1869), German composer |
| Capel Lofft (1751–1824), English miscellaneous writer |
| Adam Loftus (c. 1533–1605), Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
| George Logan (1753–1821), American public man |
| James Logan (1674–1751), American statesman |
| John Logan (c. 1725–1780), American Indian chief |
| John Logan (1748–1788), Scottish poet |
| John Alexander Logan (1826–1886), American soldier and political leader |
| Sir William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), British geologist |
| Friedrich von Logau (1604–1655), German epigrammatist |
| Nicola Logroscino (1698–1765?), Italian musical composer |
| Michael Logue (1840–1924), Irish ecclesiastic |
| Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872), German divine and philanthropist |
| Franz von Löher (1818–1892), German historian |
| Alfred Loisy (1857–1940), French Catholic theologian |
| Marcus Lollius (d. 2 B.C.), Roman general |
| Lombardo, name of a family of Venetian sculptors and architects |
| Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), Italian criminologist |
| Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727–1794), French politician and ecclesiastic |
| Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian poet and man of science |
| Jack London (1876–1916), American novelist |
| Earls and Marquesses of Londonderry |
| Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry (1852–1915), British Unionist politician |
| Charles William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry (1778–1854), British soldier and diplomatist |
| George Long (1800–1879), English classical scholar |
| John Davis Long (1838–1915), American lawyer and political leader |
| Walter Hume, Viscount Long (1854–1924), English statesman |
| William Longchamp (d. 1197), Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet |
| Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892), American clergyman |
| Pietro Longhi (1702–1785), Venetian painter |
| Cassius Longinus (c. 213–273), Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic |
| Charles Thomas Longley (1794–1868), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Longman, family of English publishers |
| Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562–1647), Danish astronomer |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870), American author |
| James Longstreet (1821–1904), American soldier, lieutenant-general in the Confederate army |
| Longueville, name of a French family |
| Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de Longueville (1619–1679), French noble |
| Longus (Second Century?), Greek sophist and romancer |
| Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884), Finnish philologist and discoverer of the Kalevala |
| Earls of Lonsdale |
| William Lonsdale (1794–1871), English geologist and palæontologist |
| Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1831–1895), American physician |
| Elias Loomis (1811–1889), American physicist |
| Fernão Lopes (1380?–1459?), Patriarch of Portuguese historians |
| Carlos Antonio López (1792–1862), Paraguayan autocrat |
| Narciso López (1797–1851), Spanish-American soldier |
| Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera (1828–1879), Spanish writer and politician |
| Francisco López de Gómara (1511–1564), Spanish historian |
| John Lord (1810–1894), American historical writer and lecturer |
| Ambroise de Loré (1396–1446), Baron of Ivry in Normandy and a French commander |
| Robert Threshie Reid, Earl Loreburn (1846–1923), British lawyer and politician |
| Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer (1864–1929), Scottish architect |
| Ellis Gray Loring (1803–1858), American lawyer |
| Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (1825?–1888), Russian statesman |
| Philibert de l’Orme (c. 1515–1570), French architect |
| Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), French landscape-painter |
| Albert Lortzing (1801–1851), German composer |
| Charles Lory (1823–1889), French geologist |
| Benson John Lossing (1813–1891), American historical writer |
| Lot, in the Bible, the legendary ancestor of the two Palestinian peoples |
| Lothair I. (795–855), Roman Emperor |
| Lothair II. or III. (c. 1070–1137), surnamed the “Saxon,” Roman Emperor |
| Lothair (941–986), King of France |
| Lothair (825–869), King of the district called after him Lotharingia |
| Earls and Marquesses of Lothian |
| Harriett Mulford Lothrop (1844–1924), American author |
| Pierre Loti (1850–1923), French author |
| Antonio Lotti (1667?–1740), Italian musical composer |
| Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480–1556?), Italian painter |
| Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), German philosopher |
| Émile Loubet (1838–1929), seventh President of the French republic |
| John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun (1598–1663), Scottish politician |
| Louis I. (778–840), surnamed the “Pious,” Roman Emperor |
| Louis II. (825–875), Roman Emperor |
| Louis III. (c. 880–928), surnamed the “Blind,” Roman Emperor |
| Louis IV. or V. (c. 1287–1347), surnamed the Bavarian, Roman Emperor and Duke of Upper Bavaria |
| Louis (804–876), surnamed the “German”, King of the East Franks |
| Louis I. (1786–1868), King of Bavaria |
| Louis II. (1845–1886), King of Bavaria |
| Louis II. (846–879), King of France, called “le Bègue” or “the Stammerer” |
| Louis III. (c. 863–882), King of France |
| Louis IV. (921–954), King of France, surnamed “d’Outremer” |
| Louis V. (967?–987), King of France |
| Louis VI. (1078–1137), surnamed “the Fat,” King of France |
| Louis VII. (c. 1120–1180), King of France |
| Louis VIII. (1187–1226), King of France |
| Louis IX. (1214–1270), King of France, known as Saint Louis |
| Louis X. (1289–1316), King of France and Navarre |
| Louis XI. (1423–1483), King of France |
| Louis XII. (1462–1515), King of France |
| Louis XIII. (1601–1643), King of France |
| Louis XIV. (1638–1715), King of France |
| Louis XV. (1710–1774), King of France |
| Louis XVI. (1754–1793), King of France |
| Louis XVII. (1785–1795), titular King of France |
| Louis XVIII. (1755–1824), called Louis le Désiré, King of France |
| Louis I. (1326–1382), called “the great,” King of Hungary and Poland |
| Louis II. (1506–1526), King of Hungary and Bohemia |
| Louis, name of three kings of Naples |
| Louis (893–911), surnamed the “Child,” King of the Franks |
| Louis (1845–1921), Ex-King of Bavaria |
| Joseph-Dominique Louis (1755–1837), French statesman and financier |
| Louis Philippe (1773–1850), King of the French |
| Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d’Angoulême (1476–1531), mother of Francis I. of France |
| Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1838–1915), American soldier and author |
| Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812), English artist |
| Jean Louvet (c. 1370–c. 1440), called the president of Provence |
| Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (1760–1797), French writer and politician |
| François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641–1691), French statesman, war minister of Louis XIV. |
| Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925), French novelist and poet |
| Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (1667/8–1747), Scottish chief and Jacobite intriguer |
| Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837), American abolitionist |
| Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864), American abolitionist |
| Richard Lovelace (1618–1658), English poet |
| Francis, Viscount Lovell (1454–1487), Supporter of Richard III. |
| Samuel Lover (1797–1868), Irish novelist, artist, song-writer and musician |
| Seth Low (1850–1916), American administrator and educationist |
| Will Hicok Low (1853–1932), American artist and writer on art |
| Frank Orren Lowden (1861–1943), American politician |
| Sir Hudson Lowe (1769–1844), English general |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), American educationalist |
| Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet |
| Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), American soldier |
| James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), American author and diplomatist |
| John Lowell (1743–1802), American jurist |
| Percival Lowell (1855–1916), American astronomer |
| Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891), American clergyman |
| John Lowin (1576–1659), English actor |
| William Thomas Lowndes (1798?–1843), English bibliographer |
| Robert Lowth (1710–1787), English divine and orientalist |
| Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913), English banker, Parliamentarian and scientist |
| Wilhelm Lübke (1826–1893), German art historian |
| Lucan (39–65 A.D.), Roman poet of the Silver Age |
| Cyril Lucaris (1572–1637), Greek prelate and theologian |
| Sir Charles Lucas (1613–1648), English soldier |
| Charles Lucas (1713–1771), Irish physician and politician |
| John Seymour Lucas (1849–1923), English painter |
| Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533), Dutch painter |
| Siméon Luce (1833–1892), French historian |
| Lucius Lucceius (First Century B.C.), Roman orator and historian |
| Girolamo Lucchesini (1751–1825), Prussian diplomatist |
| Achille Luchaire (1846–1908), French historian |
| Lucian (c. 125–after 180), Greek satirist of the Silver Age of Greek literature |
| Lucian (d. 312), Christian martyr |
| Lucifer (d. 370/1), Bishop of Cagliari |
| Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–c. 102 B.C.), earliest Roman satirist |
| Lucilius Junior (fl. 4–64 A.D.), friend and correspondent of the younger Seneca |
| Lucius, name of three popes |
| Friedrich Lücke (1791–1855), German theologian |
| Lucretia, Roman lady |
| Lucretius (c. 99–c. 55 B.C.), the great Latin didactic poet |
| Lucullus (c. 117–c. 56 B.C.), Roman |
| Saint Lucy (d. 304), Virgin and martyr of Syracuse |
| Sir Henry William Lucy (1845–1924), English journalist |
| Richard de Lucy (d. 1179), called the “loyal,” Chief Justiciar of England |
| Sir Thomas Lucy (1532–1600), English Warwickshire squire who is traditionally associated with the youth of William Shakespeare |
| Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), Prussian general |
| Edmund Ludlow (c. 1617–1692), English parliamentarian |
| James Meeker Ludlow (1841–1932), American clergyman and author |
| Hiob Ludolf (1624–1704), German orientalist |
| Carl Ludwig (1816–1895), German physiologist |
| Otto Ludwig (1813–1865), German dramatist, novelist and critic |
| Karl Lueger (1844–1910), Burgomaster of Vienna |
| Sir Frederick Dealtry Lugard (1858–1945), English administrator |
| Bernardino Luini (1480?–1532), most celebrated master of the Lombard school of painting |
| Luis de Granada (1504–1588), Spanish preacher and ascetic writer |
| Luise (1776–1810), Queen of Prussia |
| Prince Luitpold (1821–1912), Regent of Bavaria |
| Mateo Luján de Sayavedra (1570?–1604), Spanish novelist |
| Saint Luke, Traditional author of the third Gospel and of the Book of Acts |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), Italian composer |
| Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831–1895), English clergyman and writer of ecclesiastical history |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928), American traveler and ethnologist |
| Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821–1896), Anglo-Indian soldier |
| Álvaro de Luna (c. 1390–1453), Constable of Castile, Grand Master of Santiago and favourite of King John II. of Castile |
| Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839), American philanthropist |
| Robert Lundy (fl. 1688–1717), Governor of Londonderry |
| Georg Lunge (1839–1923), German chemist |
| Luqmān, name of two, if not of three persons famous in Arabian tradition |
| Isaac ben Solomon Luria (1534–1572), Jewish mystic |
| Lusignan, name of a French family |
| Christoph Ernst Luthardt (1823–1902), German Lutheran theologian |
| Martin Luther (1483–1546), the great German religious reformer |
| Henry Luttrell (1765?–1851), English wit and writer of society verse |
| Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944), English architect |
| Adolf, Freiherr von Lützow (1782–1834), Prussian lieutenant-general |
| François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628–1695), Marshal of France, the comrade and successor of the great Condé |
| Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), German Socialist and revolutionary agitator |
| Luxorius (Sixth Century), Roman writer of epigrams |
| Luynes, Territorial name belonging to a noble French house |
| Ignacio de Luzán (1702–1754), Spanish critic and poet |
| Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), Italian statesman and economist |
| Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto (1707–1747), Hebrew dramatist and mystic |
| Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), Jewish scholar |
| George Eugenievich Lvov (1861–1925), Russian statesman |
| Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), Anglo-Indian civil servant and man of letters |
| Sir Charles James Lyall (1845–1920), English orientalist |
| Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854–1934), French marshal |
| Lycophron of Chalcis (fl. Third Century B.C.), Greek poet and grammarian |
| Lycurgus, in Greek history, the reputed founder of the Spartan constitution |
| Lycurgus (c. 390–c. 324 B.C.), one of the “ten” Attic orators |
| Lycurgus (1772–1851), Greek leader in the War of Independence |
| Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), English naturalist and geologist |
| John Lydgate (c. 1370–c. 1451), English poet |
| Johannes Laurentius Lydus (490–c. 565), Byzantine writer on antiquarian subjects |
| Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), British geologist |
| John Lyly (1555?–1606), English writer |
| Patricio Lynch (1825–1886), Chilean naval officer |
| Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749–1779), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), Lord Chancellor of England |
| David Lyndsay (c. 1490–c. 1555), Scottish poet |
| Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch (1748–1843), British general |
| Mary Lyon (1797–1849), American educationalist |
| Matthew Lyon (1749–1822), American public man |
| Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), American soldier |
| Edmund, Lord Lyons (1790–1858), British admiral |
| Richard Bickerton Pemell, Earl Lyons (1817–1887), British diplomatist |
| Lysander (d. 395 B.C.), Spartan admiral and diplomatist |
| Lysias (c. 445–c. 380 B.C.), Attic orator |
| Lysimachus (361–281 B.C.), Macedonian general |
| Lysippus (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek sculptor |
| Lysis of Tarentum (d. c. 390 B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| Lysistratus (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek sculptor |
| Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), English antiquary |
| Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847), Anglican divine and hymn-writer |
| Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913), English politician |
| George, Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773), English statesman and man of letters |
| Edward Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891), English diplomatist and poet |
| Maarten Maartens (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz) (1858–1915), Dutch novelist |
| Joseph Maas (1847–1886), English tenor singer |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916), American editor and author |
| Jean Mabillon (1632–1707), Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur |
| Jan Mabuse (c. 1478–c. 1532), Flemish painter |
| John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), Scottish inventor |
| William Gibbs McAdoo (1863–1941), American public official |
| John Macalpine (d. 1557), Protestant theologian |
| Duncan McArthur (1772–1839), American pioneer and soldier |
| Mary Reid MacArthur (1880–1921), British labour organizer |
| George, Earl Macartney (1737–1806), English noble |
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859), English historian, essayist and politician
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