Authors starting with L
- L. Frank Baum70
- L. Ron Hubbard125
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu7
- Laisenia Qarase60
- Lancelot Andrewes13
- Lao Tzu61
- Larry Flynt27
- Larry Niven87
- Larry Sanger10
- Larry Wall325
- Lascelles Abercrombie15
- Laura Antoniou10
- Laura Nyro32
- Laura Riding17
- Laurell K. Hamilton52
- Laurence Hope12
- Laurence Sterne60
- Laurette Taylor6
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti17
- Lawrence Kudlow13
- Lawrence Lessig72
- Le Corbusier39
- Learned Hand62
- Lech Kaczynski23
- Lech Walesa31
- Lee Child64
- Lemmy Kilmister67
- Lenny Bruce65
- Leo Buscaglia112
- Leo J. Ryan14
- Leo Slezak1
- Leo Strauss30
- Leo Szilard30
- Leo Tolstoy158
- Leo X (Pope)22
- Leon Trotsky69
- Leonard Cohen90
- Leonard Eugene Dickson1
- Leonard H. Courtney8
- Leonardo Chiariglione1
- Leone Battista Alberti14
- Leonid Brezhnev28
- Leonid Govorov4
- Leopold Stokowski16
- Leopold von Ranke12
- Leopoldo Galtieri1
- Leos Janacek2
- LeRoy Bailey Jr.27
- Lester Bangs34
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin17
- Lev Leviev8
- Lewis Carroll65
- Lewis F., Jr. Powell12
- Lewis Mumford63
- Lewis Thomas34
- Li Bai16
- Lillian Hellman70
- Lily Tomlin86
- Lin Yutang41
- Linda McCartney43
- Linda McQuaig30
- Lindsey Graham15
- Linus Pauling41
- Linus Torvalds102
- Lionel Bart3
- Lionel Johnson9
- Lionel Tertis2
- Lionel Trilling43
- Lisa Kennedy3
- Lisa Randall36
- Lixion Avila9
- Lloyd Bentsen4
- Logan Pearsall Smith31
- Lois McMaster Bujold156
- Lon Chaney Sr.9
- Longinus10
- Lope de Vega18
- Lord Byron145
- Lord Kelvin34
- Lord Stratford19
- Loreena McKennitt28
- Lorenz Hart18
- Lou Krieger5
- Louis Armstrong39
- Louis B. Mayer9
- Louis E. Boone5
- Louis IX of France7
- Louis Kronenberger29
- Louis MacNeice21
- Louis Mountbatten5
- Louis Pasteur27
- Louis Rukeyser7
- Louis XIV of France5
- Louisa May Alcott38
- Louise Chandler Moulton6
- Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues13
- Luca Pacioli3
- Lucian Freud21
- Luciano Berio6
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla4
- Lucretius45
- Lucy Seigle1
- Lucy Stone63
- Ludovico Ariosto17
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe14
- Ludwig van Beethoven59
- Ludwig von Mises65
- Ludwig Wittgenstein148
- Luis Bunuel42
- Luis de Camoes15
- Lyndon Johnson52
- Lytton Strachey27