French poet (1897–1982)
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.
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French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French scientist, artist and photographer.
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French writer (1894–1961)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician.
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American novelist (1832–1888)
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.
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U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück was an American poet and essayist.
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Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
Lu Xun
Lu Xun, pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.
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Roman poet (39–65)
Lucan
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica.
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Italian director (1906–1976)
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.
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2nd-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician
Lucian of Samosata
Lucian of Samosata was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed philosophers and priests, speculative beliefs about the nature of the universe,
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