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Rev. Esther Lanting is a minister in the Mennonite Church USA, and currently serves at Hudson Lake Mennonite Church in New Carlisle, IN.

Charles Laplante was a 19th-century French engraver.

Dr. Jacqueline Lapsley is President of Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA and Charlotte, NC. She was called to the position in 2023 after serving at Princeton Theological Seminary for 25 years. She is also Professor of Old Testament in the Walter W. Moore and Charles E. S. Kraemer Presidential Chairs....

Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author who began working in the Lowell mills as a girl and later became one of the first faculty members at Wheaton Female Seminary, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. She helped launch the student-run Rushlight Literary Magazine and...

Charlotte Larsen (1936–2022) was an elementary school teacher, organist, piano teacher, and music leader for a variety of children's programs. She served as the music director of Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church and contributed to the Songs for LiFE children's hymnal. (Source: reformedworship.org)

Dr. Mimi Larson is the Executive Director of the Center for Faith and Children and Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She holds a PhD from Concordia University Chicago, an MA in Theological Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary, an MA in Educational Ministries from Wheaton Graduate...

Rev. Dr. Cleophus J. LaRue retired in 2023 as the associate professor of homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He is a graduate of Baylor University and Princeton Seminary. He specializes in the theory and method of African American preaching and worship. An ordained minister in the National...

Rev. Ian Lasch serves as the rector of St. Francis of the Islands in Savannah, GA. His wife, the Rev. Canon Loren Lasch, is also an Episcopal priest, and serves as the Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Georgia.He is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen's...

Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) was a Dutch painter. Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt and Jan Lievens. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Kelly Latimore is a St. Louis-based artist who specializes in painting icons. (Source: kellylatimoreicons.com; photo: episcopalct.org)