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Famous People in History whose Surname begins with 'L' - 1

This category is for famous people in history whose surname begins with the letter 'L'. The names shown on this page are - Marquis de Lafayette - Joseph Louis Lagrange - Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck - Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine - Charles Lamb - Irving Langmuir - Pierre Simon Laplace - Max Theodore Felix von Laue - Antoine Lavoisier - Ernest Orlando Lawrence.

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Marquis de Lafayette

(1757-1834) Marquis de Lafayette was a French soldier and statesman. He fought for the colonists in the American War of Independence and was a leader in the French Revolution.

Joseph Louis Lagrange

(1736-1813) Joseph Louis Lagrange was an Italian-French astronomer and mathematician. He worked out algebraic systematization of mechanics, and laws governing motions of systems containing more than two bodies.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck

(1744-1829) Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck was a French academic and naturalist. He proposed the theory of evolution by inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine

(1790-1869) Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French poet, orator, and politician. One oh is most famous poems is 'Le Lac'.

Charles Lamb

(1775-1834) Charles Lamb was an English author. For children he wrote 'Tales from Shakespeare' in collaboration with his sister, Mary. He also wrote 'Essays of Elia'.

Irving Langmuir

(1881-1957) Irving Langmuir was an American physical chemist and inventor. He extended the life of tungsten filament in electric light bulbs and developed the atomic hydrogen welding process. In 1932 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for work in surface chemistry.

Pierre Simon Laplace

(1749-1827) Pierre Simon Laplace was a French astronomer and mathematician. He refined the work of Sir Isaac Newton and Joseph Louis Lagrange on motions of planetary bodies. He invented the Laplace transform.

Max Theodore Felix von Laue

(1879-1960) Max Theodore Felix von Laue was a German physicist. In 1914 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics for the development of the X-ray diffraction technique which enables the wavelength of X-rays to be calculated and the crystal structure to be studied.

Antoine Lavoisier

(1743-1794) Antoine Lavoisier was the French chemist who gave oxygen its name and the first to establish that combustion is a form of chemical action.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

(1901-1958) Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist. In 1939 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics for the development of the cyclotron (a circular particle accelerator).