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  • Lachlan MurdochExecutive chair and chief executive of Fox Corporation in 2023.
  • Larry BacowPresident of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023.
  • Larry EllisonCo-founder of Oracle.
  • Larry Fink 2 Nov 1952 –Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock.
  • Larry PageCo-founder of Google; its CEO 1998–2001 and 2011–2015, then CEO of Alphabet until 2019.
  • Larry Roberts 1937–2018American computer scientist who led the building of the ARPANET at ARPA.
  • Larry SummersAmerican economist; named to OpenAI's board in November 2023.
  • Laurene Powell JobsFounder of Emerson Collective.
  • Lavrentiy Beria 29 Mar 1899 – 23 Dec 1953Soviet security chief; People's Commissar of Internal Affairs during the wartime deportations.
  • Lawrence Preston GiseUS government official who headed Atomic Energy Commission operations in Albuquerque; maternal grandfather of Jeff Bezos.
  • Lazar KaganovichSoviet figure sent in autumn 1932 at the head of an extraordinary grain commission; Levchuk places him in the North Caucasus, Werth in Ukraine and the Kuban.
  • Lee HamiltonFormer member of the U.S. House of Representatives; vice chair of the 9/11 Commission.
  • Lee Harvey Oswald 1939 – 24 Nov 1963Arrested in Dallas on 22 November 1963. Two official inquiries found that he fired the shots that struck the President; he was shot dead two days later.
  • Leo Szilard 1898–1964Physicist who helped draft the letter of 1939, and in 1945 wrote a petition against using the bomb on Japan without terms.
  • Leon Trotsky 7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940Bolshevik leader; chairman of the Petrograd Soviet in 1917 and first Soviet foreign commissar.
  • Leonard KleinrockAmerican computer scientist at UCLA, where the first ARPANET node was installed.
  • Leonard LeoTrustee and chairman of the Marble Freedom Trust; co-chair of the Federalist Society, ProPublica says.
  • Leonardo Del VecchioItalian industrialist who founded the eyewear maker Luxottica in 1961 and was chairman of EssilorLuxottica until his death in 2022.
  • Leonid Brezhnev 19 Dec 1906 – 10 Nov 1982Soviet leader: head of the Communist Party from October 1964 until his death in 1982, and head of state from 1977.
  • Leonid Kravchuk 10 Jan 1934 – 10 May 2022First President of independent Ukraine (1991–1994).
  • Leopold Berchtold 1863–1942Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary in 1914.
  • Leopold II 9 Apr 1835 – 17 Dec 1909King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909; sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
  • Leslie DavisU.S. consul at Harput in 1915; his reports on the deportations reached Washington through Ambassador Morgenthau.
  • Leslie Groves 1896–1970U.S. Army general who commanded the Manhattan Project.
  • Lewis Hine 1874–1940New York teacher and photographer who documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee.
  • Lewis StraussChairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, who gave the Commission's public account of the Bravo fallout.
  • Lezlee WestinePresident and CEO of the Personal Care Products Council.
  • Li PengPremier of the State Council of China in 1989.
  • Licio GelliHead of the P2 masonic lodge.
  • Lijon EknilangWoman from Rongelap who was there when the Bravo fallout came, and told the International Court of Justice about it in 1995.
  • Lin ZexuImperial commissioner sent to Canton in 1839 to stop the opium trade.
  • Lloyd AustinU.S. Secretary of Defense from 2021 to 2025.
  • LontuluSenior chief of Bolima who brought 110 twigs to the Commission of Inquiry, each for a life lost to the rubber system, in missionaries' notes of the hearing.
  • Lord MansfieldJudge who presided over Gregson v Gilbert in the Court of King’s Bench.
  • Lori FinkCo-donor, with Larry Fink, of the 2008 gift that endowed UCLA Anderson's Fink Center for Finance; wife of Larry Fink.
  • Louis Marshall 1856–1929New York lawyer; president of the American Jewish Committee; drafted Henry Ford’s 1927 retraction.
  • Louis TikasLeader of the Ludlow tent colony; killed in custody on 20 April 1914.
  • Louis XVI 23 Aug 1754 – 21 Jan 1793King of France until the monarchy was overthrown in 1792; executed in January 1793.
  • Lucian BebchukHarvard Law School professor who studies corporate governance; co-author of The Specter of the Giant Three.
  • Lucy GuoCo-founder of Scale AI, which she left in 2018.
  • Luke CollingwoodCaptain of the Zong in 1781, a surgeon by trade; the mate James Kelsall said he died at Kingston soon after the sale.
  • Lynda ChinCancer genomics researcher; co-founded AVEO Pharmaceuticals and co-directed a project at MD Anderson's Institute for Applied Cancer Science.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson 1908–197336th President of the United States; he took office on 22 November 1963 and created the Warren Commission.