Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of

Was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. During this period he spent an enormous amount of time in numerous dig sites in Egypt and the Sudan. He left government work to accept a position at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago as an Archaeological Consultant to its Nubian Expedition.

Was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life

Was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life in Germany. He was of minor nobility: for his earlier publication he used the German styled "von" as Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch, for his later publications

Was a Czech philosopher and Novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His

Was a Czech philosopher and Novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.

Ladislav Mucina received his education in Slovakia and was awarded scientific degrees and teaching q

Ladislav Mucina received his education in Slovakia and was awarded scientific degrees and teaching qualifications in botany, vegetation science, plant ecology and plant taxonomy at the Comenius University and Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava in Slovakia, the University of Vienna in Austria and the Technical University Berlin in Germany. He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa. In Slovakia, Professor Mucina was associated with the Slovak Academy of Sciences and later,

Was an Indian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who belonged to a family of astronomers. His

Was an Indian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who belonged to a family of astronomers. His most famous work was entitled Shishyadhividdhidatantra, or "Treatise Which Expands the Intellect of Students." He did not believe in the rotation of the Earth. He is also known for having published the earliest known description of a perpetuum mobile in Shishyadhividdhidatantra.

Was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.Lambert Bos was born at Workum in

Was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school. His mother was Gerarda de Haan.[1] He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670.[2] He went to the University of Franeker (suppressed by Napoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704. On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus[3], and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper.[1] after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.

Was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian. He went to Geneva first in 1560, and then became a pas

Was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian. He went to Geneva first in 1560, and then became a pastor in Gien. After eight fruitful further years in Geneva from 1572, he made a reputation as preacher and theological writer. He left for a position in the University of Leiden. He taught also in Ghent, Orthez, Lescar, and Castres.[2]

An American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding role during the O.

An American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding role during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He currently hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.Ito was born to Jim and Toshi Ito. As children, both had been kept in Japanese American internment camps with their families during World War II. Ito attended John Marshall High School, where he was student body president and received the Scholar Athlete award in 1968. He earned his Bachelors Degree with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall in 1975. He then joined the Los Angeles district attorney's office in 1977, working in the hardcore gang unit and the organized crime and terror unit, among others.[1]

Was a versatile British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He is now best known for hi

Was a versatile British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He is now best known for his popularising books on science, mathematics and language.After a year's convalescence he took lecturing positions in London universities, moving in 1922 t

Was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist.He founded the Community of the Ark in 1948

Was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist.He founded the Community of the Ark in 1948 which first met a lot of difficulties. In 1954, he went back to India to participate in nonviolent anti-feudal struggles with Vinoba Bhave.

Was a philosopher of ancient China and is a central figure in Taoism (also spelled "Daoism"). Laozi

Was a philosopher of ancient China and is a central figure in Taoism (also spelled "Daoism"). Laozi literally means "Old Master" and is generally considered an honorific. Laozi is revered as a god in religious forms of Taoism. Taishang Laojun is a title for Laozi in the Taoist religion, which refers to him as "One of the Three Pure Ones".

Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkele

Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a specialist in phonology, and has particular interest in African languages. He received his B.S., M.A, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles.He has received received numerous grants for his research, mostly from the National Science Foundation, and has won several awards, both within and beyond the University. He has published many papers and contributed to many books.Hyman is editor or on the editorial board of many journals in his field, including Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of African Languages & Linguistics, Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua Descriptive Series, Phonology (Yearbook), Linguistic Typology and Africana Linguistica (Musée Royal de He has been since 1999 Chair, Editorial Board, University of California Publications in Linguistics.

Is an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity

Is an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas. Among Martin's work is research on the Triassic reptile Longisquama and theropod dinosaur (or fossil bird) Caudipteryx.

A former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.Larry's father Bob got him started in r

A former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.Larry's father Bob got him started in racing. He raced quarter midgets in Indiana prior to turning ten years old. He went to Modified Midget racing at the Logansport, Indiana track from 1965-1967. While in modified midget racing Larry and his father introduced the first car with a suspension system in this type of racing. It was made by Kurtis out of Indianapolis, Indiana. Eventually all cars would have suspension systems on them.Larry graduated from college with a teaching degree. He taught school briefly while racing the modified midget racing circuit. He was fondly known as "The Flying School Teacher" due to his ability to win races.

An American planetary astronomer and a Professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

An American planetary astronomer and a Professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado. A 1973 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esposito received his Ph.D in Astronomy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1985, he was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society. His current work involves planetary atmospheres and ring systems.

Is an award-winning science communication specialist heading the ESO education and Public Outreach D

Is an award-winning science communication specialist heading the ESO education and Public Outreach Department in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for public outreach and education for the VLT, La Silla, for ESO’s part of ALMA, E-ELT and ESA’s part of the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Press Office and the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Secretariat. He is Press Officer for the IAU and manager of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator project.

Is an economist at the University of Chicago.After graduating from Utah State University (B.S. Mathe

Is an economist at the University of Chicago.After graduating from Utah State University (B.S. Mathematics, 1974) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D. Economics, 1978) he served as assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University before moving to Unive

Is the President of Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes, a court within the judicial

Is the President of Commissao Independente para a Indigitacao de Juizes, a court within the judicial structure in Macau. He has been the Vice-President of the Legislative Assembly since 1999.

An American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the

An American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an economic adviser to President-elect Barack Obama [1] . She is considered a potential Treasury Secretary or Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration [2] .

Was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.His first job (1975-7

Was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.His first job (1975-7) was at an insurance company. He then went to the Central Electricity Generating Board, where he researched ways to predict the available generator capaci

Is a Dutch, Rotterdam-born mathematician (January 15, 1937), Professor in Probability Theory and spe

Is a Dutch, Rotterdam-born mathematician (January 15, 1937), Professor in Probability Theory and specializing in extreme value theory. He was guest a professor at Stanford University, Cornell University, Peking University, among others, and is Doctor honoris causa at the University of Lisbon.

Is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France. After working fo

Is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France. After working for several years as a Professor at Orsay he became a Directeur de Recherches in the French CNRS in 1976. He is an influential topologist who works on manifolds and who co-discovered the Kirby-Siebenmann class. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Toronto.

Is a professor of International Administration and Theology for EUCLID (Euclid University) and a pre

Is a professor of International Administration and Theology for EUCLID (Euclid University) and a presbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2004), received in the Orthodox Church in America in 2007. He is also serving as extension faculty at Humboldt State University (OLLI Extension).

Was son of the French Reformed Church theologian Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669), who was a French

Was son of the French Reformed Church theologian Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669), who was a French Protestant divine. Laurent also was a theologian, who later became a pastor, and was the author of Sonnets chrétiens sur divers sujets (1677).

Known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Garden

Known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948-1972), Director (1972-1985) and Honorary Research Associate (1986-1997).