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Authors (L)

This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "L". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-L, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.

La

• Labiche, Eugène (1815 – 1888)
• Labillardière, Jacques (1755 – 1834)
• Labilliere, Francis Peter (1840 – 1895)
• La Boétie, Étienne de (1530 – 1563)
• Labrosse, Henri (1880 - 1942)
• Lacassagne, Alexandre (1843 – 1924)
• 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, George Trumbull (1842 – 1921)
• La Fontaine, Jean de (1712 – 1778)
• Lagos, Ricardo Escobar (b. 1938)
• Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736 – 1813)
• LaGuardia, Fiorello (1882 – 1947)
• de La Hire, Philippe (1640 – 1718)
• Laidler, John (fl. 19th century)
• Laidoner, Johan (1884 – 1953)
• 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 (1825 – 1893)
• 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)
• Lambton, John (1792 – 1840)
• Lamoureux, Andrew Jackson (1850 – 1928)
• Lana, Francis (1631 – 1687)
• Lancaster, William Joseph Cosens (1851 – 1922)
• 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, Andrew (1844 – 1912)
• Lang, William Henry (1874 – 1960)
• Langdell, Christopher Columbus (1826 – 1906)
• Lange, Antoni (1861 – 1929)
• Langevin, Paul (1872 – 1946)
• Langland, William (1330 – 1387)
• Langley, John Newport (1852 – 1925)
• Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834 – 1906)
• Lanier, Sidney Clopton (1842 – 1881)
• Lankester, Edward Ray (1847 – 1929)
• Lantos, Tom (1928 – 2008)
• Lanyer, Aemilia (1569 – 1645)
• 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)
• La Spina, Greye (1880 – 1969)
• Latham, Robert Gordon (1812 – 1888)
• Lathbury, Mary Artemisia (1841 – 1913)
• Latouche, Robert (1881 - 1973)
• Latta, Robert (1865 – 1932)
• Lauchert, Friedrich (1863 – 1944)
• Laue, Max von (1879 – 1960)
• Laughton, Sir John Knox (1830 – 1915)
• Laun, Henri van (1820 – 1896)
• Laurel, Jose P. (1891 – 1959)
• Laurence, Reginald Vere (1876 – 1934)
• 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)
• de Laveleye, Émile (1822 – 1892)
• Law, Andrew Bonar (1858 – 1923)
• Law, Thomas Graves (1836 – 1904)
• Lawes, 1st Baronet, Sir John Bennet (1814 – 1900)
• Lawless, Emily (1845 – 1913)
• Lawley, Francis Charles (1825 – 1901)
• 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

• Lea, Henry Charles (1825 – 1909)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ledwidge, Francis (1887 – 1917)
• Lee, Agnes (1868 – 1939)
• Lee, Bert (1880 – 1946)
• Lee, Guy Carleton (1862 – 1936)
• Lee, Henrietta Bedinger (1810 – 1898)
• Lee, Henry (1817 – 1898)
• Lee, Joseph (1876 – 1949)
• Lee, Nathaniel (1653 – 1692)
• Lee, Robert E. (1807 – 1870)
• Lee, Sir Sidney Lazarus (1859 – 1926)
• Leech, John (1817 – 1864)
• Leeds, Albert Ripley (1843 – 1902)
• Lee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845 – 1907)
• Leeney, Captain Harold (1852–1934)
• Leers, Johann George Daniel (1727 – 1774)
• Lees, Charles Herbert (1864 – 1952)
• 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)
• Lehmann, Walter (1878 - 1939)
• Lehrer, Jim (b. 1934)
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646 – 1716)
• Leidy, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
• Leighton, Joseph Alexander (1870 – 1954)
• Leighton, Robert (1859 – 1934)
• Leitfred, Robert Henry (1891 – 1968)
• Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824 – 1903)
• Leland, Thomas (1722 – 1785)
• Le Moine, James MacPherson (1825 – 1912)
• Lemon, Mark (1809 – 1870)
• Lenau, Nikolaus (1802 – 1850)
• 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)
• Leonard, Mary H. (fl. 1895)
• Leonard, Wrexie Louise (1867 – 1937)
• Leonard of Port Maurice, St. (1676 – 1751)
• Leonard-Stuart, Charles
• Leopardi, Giacomo (1798 – 1837)
• Le Pera, Alfredo (1900 – 1935)
• Le Plongeon, Augustus (1825–1908)
• Lepsius, Karl Richard (1810 – 1884)
• Le Queux, William (1864 – 1927)
• Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (1814 – 1841)
• Leroux, Gaston (1868 - 1927)
• Le Sage, Georges-Louis (1724 – 1803)
• Lesawyer, Joseph (1911 – 2006)
• Leslie, Charles Robert (1794 – 1859)
• Leslie, Eliza (1787 – 1858)
• Leslie, Robert Murray (1866 - 1921)
• Lessing, Bruno (1870 – 1940)
• 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)
• Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Granville George (1815 – 1891)
• Levey, George Collins (1835 - 1919)
• Lévi, Eliphas (1810 – 1875)
• Lewes, George Henry (1817 – 1878)
• Lewes, Vivian Byam (1852 - 1915)
• Lewin, Walter (1852 – 1905)
• Lewis, Angelo John "Professor Louis Hoffmann" (1839 – 1919)
• Lewis, C. S. (1898 – 1963)
• Lewis, Charlton Thomas (1834 -1904)
• Lewis, George Cornewall (1806 – 1863)
• Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875 – 1946)
• Lewis, James Hamilton (1863 – 1939)
• Lewis, Jonathan ( – )
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775 – 1818)
• Lewis, Sinclair (1885 – 1951)
• Lewis, William Draper (1867 - 1949)
• Lewis, William Mather (1878 – 1945)
• Lewkenor, Lewes (c.1560–1627)
• Lewkowitsch, Julius (1857 - 1913)
• Leybourne, George (1842 – 1884)
• Leyden, John (1775 – 1811)

Lh

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

Li

• Li, Bai (701 – 762)
• Lias, John James (1834 – 1923)
• Libby, Orin Grant (1864 – 1952)
• Libertad, Albert (1875 – 1908)
• Lichtenstein, Ignatz (1824 – 1909)
• Liddell, Henry George (1811 – 1898)
• Lie, Jonas (1833 – 1908)
• von Liebig, Justus (1803 – 1873)
• Lieberman, Joe (b. 1942)
• Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (1828 – 1889)
• Lightfoot, Thomas Bell (1849 - 1921)
• Ligt, Barthelemy De (1883 – 1938)
• Liguori, Saint Alphonsus (1696 – 1787)
• Lilienthal, Jesse Warren (1855 – 1919)
• 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, Henry John (1815 – 1901)
• Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (1870 – 1944)
• Lindley, John (1799 – 1865)
• Lindsay, David (1876 – 1945)
• David Lindsay, 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, Samuel McCune (1869 – 1960)
• Lindsay, Thomas (d. 1843)
• Lindsay, Thomas Martin (1843 – 1914)
• Lindsay, Wallace Martin (1858 – 1937)
• Lindsay, William Alexander (1846 - 1926)
• Lindsey, Ben B. (1869 – 1943)
• 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)
• Lipsett, Henry Caldwell (1869 - 1913)
• List, Friedrich (1789 – 1846)
• Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Joseph (1827 – 1912)
• Lister, Joseph Jackson (1857 - 1927)
• Little, Andrew George (1863 – 1945)
• Littledale, Richard Frederick (1833 - 1890)
• von Littrow, Carl (1811 – 1877)
• Litvinoff, Maxim (1876 – 1951)
• Livermore, Mary (1820 - 1905)
• Livingston, Edward (1764 – 1836)
• Livingston, Henry (1757 – 1823)
• Livingstone, David (1813 – 1873)
• Livingstone, Ken (b. 1945)
• Livius, Titus (59 BCE - 17)

Ll

• Lloyd, Anne Porter Lynes (1874 – 1948)
• Lloyd, Ernest Marsh (1840 – 1922)
• Lloyd, Sir John Edward (1861 – 1947)
• Lloyd George, David (1863 – 1945)
• Lloyd Morgan, Conwy (1852 – 1936)
• Lluellyn, William Raymond (1834 – 1900)
• Llull, Ramon (1232 – 1315)
• Llwyd, Morgan (1619 – 1659)

Lo

• Loat, Lily ( – )
• Loch, Charles Stewart (1849 - 1923)
• Locke, John (1632 – 1704)
• Locke, Keith (b. 1944)
• Locker, Arthur (1828 – 1893)
• Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821 – 1895)
• Locker-Lampson, Oliver Stillingfleet (1880 – 1954)
• Lockhart, John Gibson (1794 – 1854)
• Lockman, John Thomas (1834 – 1912)
• Lockwood, James Booth (1852 – 1884)
• Lockwood, Samuel (1819 – 1894)
• Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836 – 1920)
• Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850 – 1924)
• Lodge, Oliver Joseph (1851 – 1940)
• Loevy, Ram (b. 1940)
• Loew, Oscar (1844 – 1941)
• Loewe, Herbert (1882 - 1940)
• Logan (1725–1780)
• Logan, John (1748 – 1788)
• 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, Armistead Lindsay (1827 – 1891)
• Long, Basil Kellett (1878 – 1944)
• Long, Breckinridge (1881 – 1958)
• Long, George (1800 – 1879)
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807 – 1882)
• Longfellow, William Pitt Preble (1836 - 1913)
• Longhurst, Albert Henry (1876 – 1955)
• Longstreet, James (1821 – 1904)
• Longwell, Horace Craig (1876 – ?)
• Lönnrot, Elias (1802 – 1884)
• Lope de Vega (1562 – 1635)
• Lord, Bernard (1965 – )
• 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)
• Love, Augustus Edward Hough (1863 - 1940)
• Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (1890 – 1937)
• Lovelace, Ada (1815–1852)
• Lovelace, Richard (1618 – 1657)
• Loureiro, João de (1717 – 1791)
• Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (1873 – 1962)
• Loveman, Robert (1864 – 1923)
• Lovering, Joseph (1813 – 1892)
• 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, James Russell (1819 – 1891)
• Lowell, John (1824 – 1897)
• Lowell, Maria White (1821 – 1853)
• Lowell, Robert (1816 – 1891)
• Lowell, Percival (1855 – 1916)
• 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)
• Lowther, William Boswell (1843 – 1915)

Lu

• Lu Xun (1881 – 1936)
• Lu You (1125 – 1210)
• Luard, Henry Richards (1825 – 1891)
• Lubbock, John (1834 – 1913)
• Lubensky, Andrei (b. 1959)
• Lucas, Edward Verrall (1868 – 1938)
• Lucas, St. John (1879 – 1934)
• Luchaire, Achille (1846 – 1908)
• Lucian of Samosata (125 – 180)
• Pseudo-Lucian (? – ?)
• Lucius III, Pope (1100 – 1185)
• Luckwaldt, Friedrich (1875 – ?)
• Ludlow, Frederick (1796 – ?)
• Ludovici, Anthony (1882 – 1971)
• Luff, Arthur Pearson (1855 – 1938)
• Lugar, Richard (b. 1932)
• Lugard, Flora (1852 – 1929)
• Lukács, György (1885 – 1971)
• Lummis, Charles Fletcher (1859 – 1928)
• 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)

Ly

• Lyall, Alfred Comyn (1835-1911)
• Lyall, Charles James (1845 - 1920)
• Lydekker, Richard (1849 – 1915)
• Lydenberg, Harry Miller (1874 – 1960)
• Lyell, Charles (1797 – 1875)
• Lyly, John (1554 – 1606)
• Lyman, Amasa Mason (1813 – 1877)
• Lyman, Theodore (1833 - 1897)
• Lynn, James Thomas (1927 – 2010)
• Lysias (c. 445 BCE – c. 380 BCE)
• Lyte, Henry Francis (1793 – 1847)
• Lytton, Rosina Bulwer (1802 – 1882)