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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)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
- English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
Leary
- United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)
Le Carre
- English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931)
Le Chatelier
- French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936)