- the centimeter-gram-second unit of luminance or brightness, equivalent to 0.32 candles per square centimeter, and equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting or reflecting one lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: L
- English composer and conductor.
- German scientist and mathematician.
- a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “land” and “bright.”
- the cgs unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimetre
- Constant. 1905–51, English composer and conductor. His works include much ballet music and The Rio Grande (1929), a work for chorus, orchestra, and piano, using jazz idioms
