List of Famous people named L

Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist. His drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, Salford and its vicinity.

Leonard John Kensell Setright was an English motoring journalist and author.

Leonard Harrison Matthews FRS was a British zoologist, especially known for his research and writings on marine mammals.

L Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Portable Document Format interpreter.

L. Scott Caldwell is an American actress known for her role as Rose on Lost.

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. was an American special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.

Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett, known professionally as L. H. C. Tippett, was an English statistician.

Leroy Fletcher Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy. A former colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive. He subsequently became a critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) about which he had considerable inside knowledge. Prouty was the inspiration for the character "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's film JFK.

Leslie Poles Hartley was a British novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his career was slow to take off. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–47) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973. He was known for writing about social codes, moral responsibility and family relationships. In total, Hartley published 17 novels, 6 volumes of short stories and a book of criticism.

LeBaron Bradford Prince was an American lawyer and politician who served as Chief Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1878 to 1882, and as the 14th Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1889 to 1893.