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La Tour
- French painter of religious works (1593-1652)
Latrobe
- United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820)
Laughton
- United States film actor (born in England) (1899-1962)
Laurens
- leader of the American Revolution and president of the Continental Congress (1724-1792)
Lavoisier
- French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
Lawrence Of Arabia
- Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
Laurentius
- Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
Leacock
- Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)
Leakey
- English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
- English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
- English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
Louis Leakey
- English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)