People with a strong Berlin connection - L
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange Italian mathematician who
was resident in Berlin from 1766-1787, between Euler's two 'reigns'.
See Lagrange
- Johann Lambert Mathematician. He proved that e and p are transcendental (his word), or irrational. In the 1760s he produced a definitive reprentation for sinh x and cosh x, as well as series representations.
See Lambert
- Fritz Lang
- Friedrich Lange mayor from 1920 until the Nazi period - succeeded by Julius Lippert.
- Carl Gotthard Langhans
- Ferdinand Lassalle Moved to Berlin in 1857. Lived at Bellevuestrasse 13.
- Lenne
- Lotte Lenya
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing born 1729 in Kamenz, 20 kilometers from Bischofwerda. Secretary and interpreter to Voltaire. left Berlin in despair at Friedrich's repressive anti-free speech activities.
- Lichtenstein Opened the Zoo in 1844, the first in Deutschland.
- Max Liebermann born in Berlin. Exponent of impressionism and founder, in 1893, of the Berlin Sezession. Son of a businessman who lived on the Parisier Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate. An exhibition by Edvard Much only lasted two days because of official disapproval, but the Sezession movement grew out of it, led by Liebermann. Group also included Käthe Kollwitz.
- Karl Liebknecht Reichstag 1912. He was the only deputy to oppose war credits in 1914.
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- Gottfried Leibniz In 1700 became the first president of the newly-founded Brandenburg Scientific Society
- Otto Lilienthal Born 1846 in Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Died in 1896. Tegel Airport is now named for him.
- Ernst Litfass In 1854 he was offered the sole right to print and display posters in the city for the next 15 years. He actually held this right until 1880, and he made his fortune.
- Peter Lorre
- Ernst Lubitsch director at UFA, Babelsberg who went on to become production chief at Paramount, Hollywood.
- Rosa Luxemburg active in the uprisings after the First World War. She was held and beaten in the Eden Hotel (which stood opposite the entrance to the Zoo) prior to being murdered at the nearby Lichtenstein Bridge on 11. January 1919, and thrown into the Landswehrkanal.
"Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party -- however numerous they may be -- is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."
- Johann Lambert Mathematician. He proved that e and p are transcendental (his word), or irrational. In the 1760s he produced a definitive reprentation for sinh x and cosh x, as well as series representations.
