Lev Petrovich Vasilevsky (1903–1979), also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Resident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project. In 1943, the Moscow Center of KGB intelligence activities in North America, decided all contacts with J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos laboratory, would be through 'illegals' only. Vasilevsky, operating from Mexico City, was put in charge of running the illegal network after New York Resident Vasily Zarubin had been recalled to Moscow. Vasilevsky's instructions were to control the network from the Mexico City Residentura. Bruno Pontecorvo was the conduit supplying the atomic secrets from Enrico Fermi. Vasilevsky provided Pontecorvo with an escape route through Finland which Pontecorvo used in 1950 after the arrest of Klaus Fuchs.
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory.
Rabbi Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim (Hebrew: לוי בן אברהם בן חיים מווילפראנש) was a French encyclopedist; champion of the liberal party in Provence in the struggle for the study of secular sciences; born at Villefranche-de-Conflent, Roussillon, between 1240 and 1250; died at or near Arles soon after 1315.
Levin Schücking was a German novelist. He was born near Meppen, Kingdom of Prussia, and died in Bad Pyrmont, German Empire. He was the uncle of Levin Ludwig Schücking.
Levina Buoncuore Urbino or Lavinia Buoncuore Urbino was an American writer and translator who lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 19th century. Among her published works was An American Woman in Europe (1869), a frank account of her travels in Europe 1866–1869; she also wrote children's books and a guide to art technique. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym: L. Boncoeur, L. B. Cuore, or L. Buoncuore.
