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La

 * Labbé, Antoine
 * Labiche, Eugène (1815–1888)
 * Labillardière, Jacques (1755–1834)
 * Labilliere, Francis Peter (1840–1895)
 * La Boétie, Étienne de (1530–1563)
 * Laborde,Alexandre de (1773–1842)
 * Laborde, Léon de (1807–1869)
 * Labrosse, Henri (1880–1942)
 * Lacassagne, Alexandre (1843–1924)
 * Lacordaire, Jean-Baptiste Henri (1802–1861)
 * Lacouperie, Albert Terrien de (?–1894)
 * Lacroix, Sylvestre François (1765–1843)
 * Lactantius, Lucius Caelius (or Caecilius?) Firmianus (240–320)
 * Lacy, Beverly Tucker (1819–1900)
 * Lacy, J. Horace (1823–1906)
 * Ladd, Adoniram Judson (1861–1932)
 * Ladd, George Trumbull (1842–1921)
 * Ladoucette, Jean Charles François de (1772–1848)
 * La Fontaine, Jean de (1712–1778)
 * Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius (1758–1831)
 * Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736–1813)
 * LaGuardia, Fiorello (1882–1947)
 * de La Hire, Philippe (1640–1718)
 * Laidler, John (fl. 19th century)
 * Laidoner, Johan (1884–1953)
 * Laiq, Sulaiman (1930–2020)
 * Laing, Alexander Gordon (1793–1826)
 * Laith al-Libi, Abu (1967–2008)
 * Lake, Kirsopp (1872–1946)
 * Lake, Philip (1865–1949)
 * Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de (1732–1807)
 * Lalor, James Fintan (1807–1849)
 * Lamar, Joseph Rucker (1857–1916)
 * Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus II (1825–1893)
 * Lamb, Robert (1812–1872)
 * Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1744–1829)
 * Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790–1869)
 * Lamb, Arthur J. (1870–1928)
 * Lamb, Charles (1775–1834)
 * Lamb, Horace (1849–1934)
 * Lamb, Joseph (1887–1960)
 * Lamb, Martha Joanna Reade Nash (1829–1893)
 * Lamb, Mary (1764–1847)
 * Lambe, Lawrence (1849–1934)
 * Lambe, Robert (1712–1795)
 * Lambert, Aylmer Bourke (1761–1842)
 * Lambert, George Washington Thomas (1873–1930)
 * Lambert, Richard Stanton (1894–1981)
 * Lambton, John (1792–1840)
 * Lamentillo, Anna Mae Yu (1991)
 * Lamoureux, Andrew Jackson (1850–1928)
 * Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard (1856–1915)
 * Lana, Francis (1631–1687)
 * Lanahan, John (1815–1903)
 * Lancaster, William Joseph Cosens (1851–1922)
 * Lancey, Magdalene de (1793–1822)
 * Lanchester, Frederick W. (1868–1946)
 * Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo (1845–1929)
 * de Landa, Diego (1524–1579)
 * Landells, Ebenezer (1808–1860)
 * Landis, Arthur Harold (1917–1986)
 * Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1802–1838)
 * Landor, Arnold Henry Savage (1872–1924)
 * Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864)
 * Lane, Franklin Knight (1864–1921)
 * Lane Mullins, George (1857–1918)
 * Lane-Notter, James (1843–1923)
 * Lane-Poole, Reginald (1857–1939)
 * Lane-Poole, Stanley (1854–1931)
 * Lanessan, Jean Marie Antoine de (1843–1919)
 * Lang, A. M. (fl. 1874)
 * Lang, Andrew (1844–1912)
 * Lang, Jean (1867–1932)
 * Lang, William Henry (1874–1960)
 * Langdale, Horace Marmaduke (1855–1902)
 * Langdell, Christopher Columbus (1826–1906)
 * Lange, Antoni (1861–1929)
 * Lange, Dietrich (1863–1940)
 * Lange, Friedrich Albert (1828–1875)
 * Langevin, Paul (1872–1946)
 * Langford, John Alfred (1823–1903)
 * Langland, William (1330–1387)
 * Langley, Baxter (1819–1892)
 * Langley, John Newport (1852–1925)
 * Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834–1906)
 * Lanier, Sidney Clopton (1842–1881)
 * Lankester, Edwin (1814–1874)
 * Lankester, Edward Ray (1847–1929)
 * Lanman, Charles (1819–1895)
 * Lansdell, Sarah (c. 1778–after 1816)
 * Lantos, Tom (1928–2008)
 * Lanyer, Aemilia (1569–1645)
 * Lanza, Clara (1859–1939)
 * Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749–1827)
 * Lapworth, Charles (1842–1920}
 * Larcom, Lucy (1823–1893)
 * Lardner, Ring (1885–1933)
 * Larmor, Joseph (1857–1942)
 * Larned, Josephus Nelson (1836–1913)
 * Larocque, Joseph (1831–1908)
 * La Spina, Greye (1880–1969)
 * von Lasaulx, Peter Ernst (1805–1861)
 * Latham, Robert Gordon (1812–1888)
 * Lathbury, Mary Artemisia (1841–1913)
 * Latif, Syed Muhammad (1851–1902)
 * Latimer, Mary Elizabeth Wormeley (1822–1904)
 * Latimer, Hugh (1472–1555)
 * Latini, Brunetto (c. 1220–1294)
 * Latouche, Robert (1881–1973)
 * Latreille, Pierre-André (1762–1833)
 * Latta, Robert (1865–1932)
 * Lauchert, Friedrich (1863–1944)
 * Laue, Max von (1879–1960)
 * Laughton, Sir John Knox (1830–1915)
 * Laun, Friedrich pseudonym (1770–1849)
 * Laun, Henri van (1820–1896)
 * Laurel, Jose P. (1891–1959)
 * Laurence, Reginald Vere (1876–1934)
 * Laurenson, Arthur (1832–1890)
 * Lauriat, Charles E. Jr. (d. 1937)
 * Laurie, Simon Somerville (1829–1909)
 * Laurier, Wilfrid (1841–1919)
 * Lauth, Charles (1836–1913)
 * Lautréamont, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Comte de (1846–1870)
 * Lavater, Johann Casper (1741–1801)
 * de Laveleye, Émile (1822–1892)
 * Law, Andrew Bonar (1858–1923)
 * Law, Helen Hull (1890–1966)
 * Law, Isabella (fl. 1860s)
 * Law, Thomas Graves (1836–1904)
 * Laws, Benjamin Glover (1861—1931)
 * Lawes, 1st Baronet, Sir John Bennet (1814–1900)
 * Lawless, Emily (1845–1913)
 * Lawley, Francis Charles (1825–1901)
 * Lawlor, Harold (1910–1992)
 * Lawrence, Amos (1786–1852)
 * Lawrence, David Herbert (1885–1930)
 * Lawrence, Edmund Tanner (1838–1898)
 * Lawrence, Eugene (1823–1894)
 * Lawrence, Frederick William (1871–1961)
 * Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888–1935)
 * Lawrence, William (1850–1941)
 * Lawrence, William John (1862–1940)
 * Lawson nee Bredt, Bertha (1876–1957)
 * Lawson, Bertha Louisa (1900–1985)
 * Lawson, Henry (1867–1922)
 * Lawson, Robert William (1890–1960)
 * Lawton, Alexander Robert (1818–1896)
 * Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817–1894)
 * Layard, George Somes (1852–1925)
 * Laynez, Diego (1512–1565)
 * Layton, Turner (1894–1978)
 * Lazarus, Emma (1849–1887)
 * Lazarević, Stephan (1374–1427)

Le/Lé

 * Le Cœur, René (1880–1948)
 * Lea, Henry Charles (1825–1909)
 * Lea, Mathew Carey (1823–1897)
 * Leach, Arthur Francis (1851–1915)
 * Leach, William Elford (1790–1836)
 * Leacock, Stephen (1869–1944)
 * Leadam, Isaac Saunders (1848–1913)
 * Leadbeater, Charles Webster (1854–1934)
 * Leader, Robert Eadon (1839–1922)
 * Leaf, Walter (1852–1927)
 * Leake, George (1786–1849)
 * Leake, James Miller (b. 1879)
 * Leakey, Caroline Woolmer (1827–1881)
 * Leale, Charles Augustus (1842–1932)
 * Lear, Edward (1812–1888)
 * Leared, Arthur (1822–1879)
 * Leary, Lewis Gaston (1877–1951)
 * Leathes, Stanley Mordaunt (1861–1938)
 * Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895–1978)
 * Lebailly, Antoine-François (1756–1832)
 * LeBar, James (1936–2008)
 * Leblanc, Maurice (1864–1941)
 * Le Brunn, Thomas (fl. 1893)
 * M. le Clerc (fl. 1696)
 * Le Conte, John (1818–1891)
 * LeConte, John Lawrence (1825–1883)
 * Le Conte, Joseph (1823–1901)
 * Ledbetter, Huddie William (1888–1949)
 * Ledeganck, Karel Lodewijk (1805–1847)
 * Ledwidge, Francis (1887–1917)
 * Lee, Agnes (1868–1939)
 * Lee, Ann (1736–1784)
 * Lee, Bert (1880–1946)
 * Lee, Guy Carleton (1862–1936)
 * Lee, Henrietta Bedinger (1810–1898)
 * Lee, Henry (1756–1818)
 * Lee, Henry (1817–1898)
 * Lee, Joseph (1876–1949)
 * Lee, Nathaniel (1653–1692)
 * Lee, Robert E. (1807–1870)
 * Lee, Robert Warden (1868–1958)
 * Lee, Sir Sidney Lazarus (1859–1926)
 * Leech, John (1817–1864)
 * Leech, John Henry (1862–1900)
 * Leeds, Albert Ripley (1843–1902)
 * Leeds, William Henry (1786–1866)
 * Leeney, Captain Harold (1852–1934)
 * Leers, Johann George Daniel (1727–1774)
 * Lees, Charles Herbert (1864–1952)
 * Lees, George John Dumville (1848–1906)
 * Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (1632–1723)
 * Lee-Warner, Edward (1845–1927)
 * Lee-Warner, Sir William (1846–1914)
 * Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (1814–1873)
 * Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1752–1833)
 * Léger, Jacques Nicolas (1859–1918)
 * Legge, Arthur Edward John (1863–1934)
 * Legge, Francis Cecil (1873–1940)
 * Legge, James (1815–1897)
 * Legge, Robin Humphrey (1862–1933)
 * Leggett, William (1801–1839)
 * Legrand, Philippe-Ernest (1866–1953)
 * Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber (1929–2018)
 * Lehane, Con (1877–1919)
 * Lehmann, Walter (1878–1939)
 * Lehrer, Thomas Andrew (1928– )
 * Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646–1716)
 * Leidy, Joseph (1823–1891)
 * Leigh, Cholmeley Austen (1829–1899)
 * Leigh, Percival (1813–1889)
 * Leighton, Frank Thomson (1956– )
 * Leighton, Joseph Alexander (1870–1954)
 * Leighton, Robert (1611–1684)
 * Leighton, Robert (1859–1934)
 * Leitfred, Robert Henry (1891–1968)
 * Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)
 * Leland, Thomas (1722–1785)
 * Lemcke, Ernst Eduard (1844–1919)
 * Lemoine, Gustave (1802–1885)
 * Le Moine, James MacPherson (1825–1912)
 * Lemmon, John Gill (1832–1908)
 * Lemon, Mark (1809–1870)
 * Lenau, Nikolaus (1802–1850)
 * Lenhard, Josef (? – 20th century)
 * Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870–1924)
 * Lenz, Heinrich Freidrich Emil (1804–1865)
 * Leo I, Pope (400–461)
 * Leo IX, Pope (1002–1054)
 * Leo X, Pope (1475–1521)
 * Leo XI, Pope (1535–1605)
 * Leo XII, Pope (1760–1829)
 * Leo XIII, Pope (1810–1903)
 * Leodamas of Thasos (c. 380 B.C.E.)
 * Leon (c. 400 B.C.E.)
 * Leonard, Mary H. (fl. 1895)
 * Leonard, Wrexie Louise (1867–1937)
 * Leonard of Port Maurice, St. (1676–1751)
 * Leonard-Stuart, Charles
 * Leopardi, Giacomo (1798–1837)
 * Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909)
 * Le Pera, Alfredo (1900–1935)
 * Le Plongeon, Augustus (1825–1908)
 * l'Épée, Charles-Michel de (1712–1789)
 * Lepsius, Karl Richard (1810–1884)
 * Le Queux, William (1864–1927)
 * Léris, Claire Josèphe Hippolyte (1723–1803)
 * Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (1814–1841)
 * Leroux, Gaston (1868–1927)
 * Le Sage, Georges-Louis (1724–1803)
 * Lesawyer, Joseph (1911–2006)
 * Lešetický z Lešehradu, Emanuel (1877–1955)
 * Leskovec, Jure (1980-)
 * Leslie, Charles Robert (1794–1859)
 * Leslie, Eliza (1787–1858)
 * Leslie, Robert Murray (1866–1921)
 * Leslie, Thomas Edward Cliffe (1825–1882)
 * Lessing, Bruno (1870–1940)
 * Lester, Charles Edwards (1815–1890)
 * L’Estrange, Roger (1616–1704)
 * le Strange, Hamon (1840–1918)
 * Lethaby, William (1857–1931)
 * Letts, Winifred Mary (1882–1972)
 * Leuba, James Henry (1867–1946)
 * Leupp, Francis E. (1849–1918)
 * Levenson, Lew (fl. 1930s)
 * Lever, Charles (1806–1872)
 * Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Granville George (1815–1891)
 * Levey, George Collins (1835–1919)
 * Lévi, Eliphas (1810–1875)
 * Lewald, August (1792–1871)
 * Lewald, Fanny (1811–1889)
 * Lewes, George Henry (1817–1878)
 * Lewes, Vivian Byam (1852–1915)
 * Lewin, Walter (1852–1905)
 * Lewins, Robert (1817–1895)
 * Lewis, Alfred Lionel (1841–1920)
 * Lewis, Angelo John "Professor Louis Hoffmann" (1839–1919)
 * Lewis, Austin (1865–1944)
 * Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples) (1898–1963)
 * Lewis, Charlton Miner (1866–1923)
 * Lewis, Charlton Thomas (1834 –1904)
 * Lewis, Erasmus
 * Lewis, George Cornewall (1806–1863)
 * Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946)
 * Lewis, James Hamilton (1863–1939)
 * Lewis, John Delaware (1828–1884)
 * Lewis, Jonathan (–)
 * Lewis, Leopold (1828–1890)
 * Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775–1818)
 * Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951)
 * Lewis, Tayler (1802–1877)
 * Lewis, William Draper (1867–1949)
 * Lewis, William Mather (1878–1945)
 * Lewkenor, Lewes (c.1560–1627)
 * Lewkowitsch, Julius (1857–1913)
 * Leybourn, William (1626-1716)
 * Leybourne, George (1842–1884)
 * Leyden, John (1775–1811)
 * Leypoldt, Augusta Harriet (1849–1919)

Lh

 * L'Héritier de Brutelle, Charles Louis (1746–1800)
 * Lhotsky, John (1795–1866)

Li

 * Li, Bai (701–762)
 * Li, Shu-Qiang (also Shuqiang)
 * Li, Yu (1610–1680)
 * Lias, John James (1834–1923)
 * Libby, Orin Grant (1864–1952)
 * Libertad, Albert (1875–1908)
 * Libornio Ibarra, José Sabas (1858–1915)
 * Lichtenstein, Ignatz (1824–1909)
 * Liechtenstein, Ulrich von (1200–1275)
 * Liddell, Henry George (1811–1898)
 * Lie, Jonas (1833–1908)
 * von Liebig, Justus (1803–1873)
 * Lieberman, Joe (b. 1942)
 * Liebscher, Adolf (1857–1919)
 * Liebscher, Karel (1851–1906)
 * Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (1828–1889)
 * Lightfoot, Thomas Bell (1849–1921)
 * Lighthizer, Robert Emmett (1947–)
 * Ligt, Barthelemy De (1883–1938)
 * Liguori, Saint Alphonsus (1696–1787)
 * Likhitrakarn, Natdanai (20th c.-)
 * Lilienthal, Jesse Warren (1855–1919)
 * Lille, Alain de (1128–1202/03)
 * Lillo, George (1693–1739)
 * Lilly, William Samuel (1840–1919)
 * Lily, William (1468–1522)
 * Linacre, Thomas (1460–1524)
 * Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)
 * Lincoln, Frederick Charles (1892–1960)
 * Lincoln, Heman (1821–1887)
 * Lincoln, Henry John (1815–1901)
 * Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (1870–1944)
 * Linda, Josef (1792/1789–1834)
 * Lindley, John (1799–1865)
 * Lindsay, Alexander William Crawford, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres (1812–1880)
 * Lindsay, David (1876–1945)
 * Lindsay, David, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871–1940)
 * Lindsay, Sir Lionel Arthur (1874–1961)
 * Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel (1879–1931)
 * Lindsay, Norman Alfred William (1879–1969)
 * Lindsay, Robert
 * Lindsay, Samuel McCune (1869–1960)
 * Lindsay, Thomas (1656–1724)
 * Lindsay, Thomas (d. 1843)
 * Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843–1914)
 * Lindsay, Wallace Martin (1858–1937)
 * Lindsay, William Alexander (1846–1926)
 * Lindsey, Ben B. (1869–1943)
 * Lindsey, Charles (1820–1908)
 * Lindt, John William (1845–1926)
 * Lingg, Louis (1864–1887)
 * Linnaeus, Carl (1707–1778)
 * Linnaeus, Carolus (1741–1783)
 * Linnell, John (1792–1882)
 * Linton, William James (1812–1897)
 * Lippmann, Gabriel (1871–1950)
 * Lippmann, Walter (1889–1974)
 * Lipscomb, Dabney (1859–1931)
 * Lipsett, Henry Caldwell (1869–1913)
 * List, Friedrich (1789–1846)
 * Lister, Arthur (1830–1908)
 * Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949)
 * Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Joseph (1827–1912)
 * Lister, Joseph Jackson (1857–1927)
 * Little, Andrew George (1863–1945)
 * Littledale, Richard Frederick (1833–1890)
 * Littler, Frank Mervyn (1880–1922)
 * von Littrow, Carl (1811–1877)
 * Litvinoff, Maxim (1876–1951)
 * Liu, Natalie
 * Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969)
 * Livermore, Mary (1820–1905)
 * Livingston, Edward (1764–1836)
 * Livingston, Henry (1757–1823)
 * Livingstone, David (1813–1873)
 * Livius, Titus (59 BCE–17)

Ll

 * Lloyd, Anne Porter Lynes (1874–1948)
 * Lloyd, Bertram (1881–1944)
 * Lloyd, Ernest Marsh (1840–1922)
 * Lloyd, Sir John Edward (1861–1947)
 * Lloyd, William (?–1716)
 * Lloyd, William Forster (1791–1853)
 * Lloyd George, David (1863–1945)
 * Lloyd Morgan, Conwy (1852–1936)
 * Lluellyn, William Raymond (1834–1900)
 * Llull, Ramon (1232–1315)
 * Llwyd, Morgan (1619–1659)

Lo

 * Lo Chên-yü (1866–1940)
 * Loat, Lily (1880–1958)
 * Lobingier, Charles Sumner (1866–1956)
 * Loch, Charles Stewart (1849–1923)
 * Locke, John (1632–1704)
 * Locke, Keith (1944–2024)
 * Locker, Arthur (1828–1893)
 * Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821–1895)
 * Locker-Lampson, Oliver Stillingfleet (1880–1954)
 * Lockhart, John Gibson (1794–1854)
 * Lockhart, William Stephen Alexander (1841–1900)
 * Lockman, John Thomas (1834–1912)
 * Lockwood, James Booth (1852–1884)
 * Lockwood, Samuel (1819–1894)
 * Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836–1920)
 * Locy, William Albert (1857–1924)
 * Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850–1924)
 * Lodge, Oliver Joseph (1851–1940)
 * Lodge, Reginald Badham (1852–1937)
 * von Loeben, Otto Heinrich (1786–1825)
 * Loevy, Ram (b. 1940)
 * Loew, Oscar (1844–1941)
 * Herbert Martin James Loewe (1882–1940)
 * Loftus, Cecilia (1876–1943)
 * Logan (1725–1780)
 * Logan, John (1748–1788)
 * Logan, John Alexander (1826–1886)
 * Lohmann, Friederike (1749–1811)
 * Lohmann, Johanne (1902–2000)
 * Lohse, Hinrich (1896–1964)
 * Lommel, Eugene (1837–1899)
 * Lomonosov, Mikhail (1711–1765)
 * London, Jack (1876–1916)
 * Long, Amelia Reynolds (1904–1978)
 * Long, Anne (1681–1711)
 * Long, Armistead Lindsay (1827–1891)
 * Long, Basil Kellett (1878–1944)
 * Long, Breckinridge (1881–1958)
 * Long, George (1800–1879)
 * Long, James (1814–1887)
 * Long, Sidney Selden (1868–1940)
 * Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)
 * Longfellow, Marian Adele (1849–1924)
 * Longfellow, Samuel (1819–1892)
 * Longfellow, William Pitt Preble (1836–1913)
 * Longhurst, Albert Henry (1876–1955)
 * Longhurst, Percy William (1876–1959)
 * Longnon, Auguste (1844–1911)
 * Longstreet, James (1821–1904)
 * Longwell, Horace Craig (1876–?)
 * Lönnrot, Elias (1802–1884)
 * Lope de Vega (1562–1635)
 * Lord, John King (1848–1926)
 * Lord, Mindret Loeb (1903–1955)
 * Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853–1928)
 * Lortet, Louis Charles Émile (1836–1909)
 * Lorwin, Rose Strunsky (1884–1963)
 * Lotze, Rudolf Hermann (1817–1881)
 * Louis XIII of France (1601–1643)
 * Louis XIV of France (1638–1715)
 * Louis XVI of France (1754–1793)
 * Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford (1838–1915)
 * Loureiro, João de (1717–1791)
 * Louÿs, Pierre (1870–1925)
 * Love, Augustus Edward Hough (1863–1940)
 * (Nurse) Lovechild (fl. 1744)
 * Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (1890–1937)
 * Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (1873–1962)
 * Lovelace, Ada (1815–1852)
 * Lovelace, Richard (1618–1657)
 * Lovell, John (1835–1890)
 * Loveman, Robert (1864–1923)
 * Lover, Samuel (1797–1868)
 * Lovering, Joseph (1813–1892)
 * Lovett, Beresford (1839–1926)
 * Low, Albert Peter (1861–1942)
 * Low, George (1926–1984)
 * Low, Seth (1850–1916)
 * Low, Sir Sidney James Mark (1857–1932)
 * Lowe, Francis Manley (1859–1934)
 * Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856–1943)
 * Lowell, Amy (1874–1925)
 * Lowell, Edward Jackson (1845–1894)
 * Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)
 * Lowell, John (1824–1897)
 * Lowell, Maria White (1821–1853)
 * Lowell, Percival (1855–1916)
 * Lowell, Robert (1816–1891)
 * Löwenthal, Johann (1810–1876)
 * Lower, Mark Antony (1813–1876)
 * Lowie, Robert Harry (1883–1957)
 * Lowis, Cecil Champain (1866–1948)
 * Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc (1868–1947)
 * Lowrie, Walter (1868–1959)
 * Lowry, Wilson (1762–1824)
 * Lowth, Robert (1710–1787)
 * Lowther, William Boswell (1843–1915)

Lu/Lü

 * Lu Xun (1881–1936)
 * Lu You (1125–1210)
 * Luard, Henry Richards (1825–1891)
 * Lubbock, John (1834–1913)
 * Lubensky, Andrei (b. 1959)
 * Luca, Olmstead (1826–1869)
 * Lucas, Edward Verrall (1868–1938)
 * Lucas, Katheleen
 * Lucas, St. John (1879–1934)
 * Luchaire, Achille (1846–1908)
 * Lucian of Samosata (125–180)
 * Pseudo-Lucian (?–?)
 * Lucius III, Pope (1100–1185)
 * Luckwaldt, Friedrich (1875–?)
 * Ludendorff, Erich Friedrich Wilhelm (1865–1937)
 * Ludlow, Frederick (1796–?)
 * Ludlow, Peter
 * Ludovici, Anthony (1882–1971)
 * Ludwig, Ernest (1876–)
 * Luff, Arthur Pearson (1855–1938)
 * Lugar, Richard (b. 1932)
 * Lugard, Flora, Lady (1852–1929)
 * Lukács, György (1885–1971)
 * Lumley, George (fl. 1850s–1860s)
 * Lummis, Charles Fletcher (1859–1928)
 * Lund, Zacharias (1608–1667)
 * Lunding, Astrid (1881–1935)
 * Lunge, Georg (1839–1923)
 * Luo Guanzhong (1330–1400)
 * Lupton, Joseph Hirst (1836–1905)
 * Lurton, Horace Harmon (1844–1914)
 * Lushington, Sir Franklin (1823–1901)
 * Luther, Martin (1483–1546)
 * Lutwyche, Thomas (1674–1734)
 * Lützow, František (1849–1916)
 * Luvsanjambyn Mördorj (1919–1996)

Lv

 * Lvov, Alexei Fyodorovich (1799–1870)

Ly

 * Lyall, Alfred Comyn (1835–1911)
 * Lyall, Charles James (1845–1920)
 * Lydekker, Richard (1849–1915)
 * Lydenberg, Harry Miller (1874–1960)
 * Lydgate, John (c. 1370 – c. 1451)
 * Lyell, Charles (1797–1875)
 * Lyly, John (1554–1606)
 * Lyman, Amasa Mason (1813–1877)
 * Lyman, Theodore (1833–1897)
 * Lynch, H. F. B (1862–1913)
 * Lynch, John Joseph (1816–1888)
 * Lynn, James Thomas (1927–2010)
 * Lyon, Gilberta Marion Fanny Lyon (1863–1944)
 * Lyon, Marcus Ward (1875–1942)
 * Lyon, Mary Mason (1797–1849)
 * Lyons, Timothy Augustine (1845–1919)
 * Lysias (c. 445 BCE – c. 380 BCE)
 * Lyte, Henry Francis (1793–1847)
 * Lyttelton, Caroline Lavinia (1816–1902)
 * Lyser, Johann Peter (1804–1870)
 * Lyttleton, George (1709–1773)
 * Lytton, Rosina Bulwer (1802–1882)