- Lachenmann, Helmut
- Lagerfeld, Karl
- Lance, Bert
- Lang, Andrew
- Lange, Dorothea
- Lardner Jr., Ring
- Lasch, Christopher
- Lauren, Ralph
- Lawrence, Jacob
- Lazarus, Emma
- Le Pen, Jean-Marie
- Lear, Edward
- Lecuona, Ernesto
- Lederberg, Joshua
- Lee, Ann
- Lee, Arthur
- Lee, Henry
- Lee, Richard
- LeMond, Greg
- Lendl, Ivan
- Lenya, Lotte
- Leonard, Elmore
- Leopold, Aldo
- Lessing, Doris
- Leutze, Emanuel
- Levi, Primo
- Levine, James
- Lewis, Carl
- Lewis, Francis
- Lewis, Lennox
- Lewis, Meriwether
- Lewis, Sinclair
- LeWitt, Sol
- Li Peng
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- Limon, Jose
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lind, Jenny
- Lindner, Richard
- Liston, Sonny
- Liszt, Franz
- Livingstone, David
- Livingstone, Ken
- Llewellyn, Richard
- Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew
- Lloyd, David
- Lodge, David
- Lofting, Hugh
- Logan, Joshua
- London, Jack
- Louis, Joe
- Lowell, Robert
- Luciano, Lucky
- Lynch, Jack
- Lynch, Thomas
- Lynn, Loretta
