List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions

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Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities. This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of these institutions.

Note: Along with lay men and women, and non-Catholics, included in the list below are also a number of Jesuits.

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  • La Condamine - French geographer and mathematician (Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris)
  • Philippe de La Hire - French mathematician
  • Jacques Lacan - French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor involved in the psychoanalytic movement (Collège Stanislas in Paris)
  • Maria Elena Lagomasino - CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank from 2001 to 2005 (Fordham University)
  • Jérôme Lalande - French astronomer (Jesuit College in Lyon)
  • Alexander Graf Lambsdorff - German politician
  • Francesco Lana de Terzi - Italian aeronautics pioneer (studied under Athanasius Kircher)
  • Nathan Lane - two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of stage, screen, and television (Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey)
  • Joseph A. Laroski, Jr. - judge on the United States Court of International Trade (Fordham University, Georgetown University)
  • Charles Laughton - English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, and producer (Stonyhurst College)
  • Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. - Cuban-American celebrity gossip blogger who writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton (Belen Jesuit in Miami, Florida)
  • John Leahy - Chief Operating Officer of Airbus (Fordham University)
  • Patrick J. Leahy - United States Senator (Georgetown University)
  • Timothy Leary - American psychologist and writer (expelled from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts after his freshman year)
  • Arthur F. Lederle - United States District Judge (University of Detroit Law School)
  • Byron Lee - Jamaican music pioneer (St. George's College, Jamaica)
  • Anthony James Leggett - British professor of physics (Wimbledon College)
  • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - German mathematician (Jesuit College in Cologne)
  • Georges Lemaître - Belgian priest and astronomer (Collège du Sacré Coeur, Charleroi, Belgium)
  • Elmore Leonard - American novelist (University of Detroit Jesuit High School and University of Detroit)
  • Pietro Leoni - Italian priest of the Russian Catholic Church; survivor of the Gulag; author of Spio dei Vaticano (Collegium Russicum)
  • G. Gordon Liddy - American political strategist (Fordham University)
  • John T. Lis - American professor of molecular biology and genetics; 2000 Guggenheim Fellow (Fairfield University)
  • Christopher Loeak - President of the Marshall Islands (Gonzaga University School of Law)
  • Vince Lombardi - Hall of Fame football coach for the Green Bay Packers (Fordham University)
  • Bernard Lonergan - Canadian professor and theologian (Gregorian University)
  • Lope de Vega - Spanish Baroque playwright and poet (Colegio Imperial de Madrid)
  • Eduardo López de Romaña - President of Peru (Stonyhurst College)
  • Federico García Lorca - Spanish poet and playwright (attended Jesuit school as a boy in Grenada)
  • Henri de Lubac - French theologian (Gregorian University in Rome, Italy)
  • Ruud Lubbers - former Prime Minister of the Netherlands; former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Canisius College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Emmanuel Lubezki - cinematographer (The Birdcage, Reality Bites) (Universidad Iberoamericana)
  • Peter Lynch - American financial leader (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)

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  • Francisco de Quevedo - nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age (Colegio Imperial de Madrid)

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