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Jean Genet Jean Genet (1910-86), French novelist and playwright. The unwanted son of a prostitute, he fell into a life of petty crime and spent much of his youth …
Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig, full name Henry Louis Gehrig (1903-41). US baseball player, one of the greatest hitters in the history of the game. He attended Columbia University before …
Maham Anga Maham Anaga, 1562, Mughal nurse. She was the chief nurse of infant Akbar (b. 1542) and became his foster-mother. She came to exercise great influence over the …
Akka Mahadevi Akka Mahadevi, 12th cent., Kannada writer and mystic. Daughter of a Saiva couple of Udutadi, she married unwillingly the prince Kausika to save her parents from his …
Mahadamba Mahadamba, 13th cent., Marathi poet. Probably the earliest of the Marathi woman writers, she flourished during the times of the Yadava king, Mahadeo of Devagiri, who made her …
Luxose, Mary Poonem Luxose, Mary Poonem, 1881, first women Surgeon-General of India. Born in Kerala, in a family of medical practitioners, she was the first woman graduate of Madras …
Lilavati Lilavati, 1150, mathematician. Daughter of the astronomer-mathematician, Bhaskara, she is reputed to be the real author of the great mathematical work known by her name and written in …
Lalleshvvari Lalleshvvari, also known as Lalla Yogishwari, or Lat Diddi, fl. 14th cent., Kashmiri poet and mystic. Born in a Kashmiri pandit family of Pandrenthan, near Srinagar, her life …
