La
Appearance
La, LA, or L.A. may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- La, musical note in the most common form of solmization, as well as in solfège
- "L.A.", song by Elliott Smith on Figure 8 (album)
- L.A. (EP), by Teddy Thompson
- L.A. (Light Album), Beach Boys album
- L.A. (Neil Young song)
- The La's, English rock band
- L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer
- Yung L.A., rapper
• Lady Antebellum, an American country music trio
Other media
- l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings
- La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan)
- Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper
- La7, an Italian television channel
- LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
Business, organizations, and government agencies
- L.A. Screenings, a television market
- LAN Airlines (IATA code)
- Lavochkin, a Russian design bureau
- Lawrence Academy at Groton, an American boarding school
- Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon
- Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- Linux Australia
- Local Authority, a unit of government in the United Kingdom
- London Assembly
- Loyola Academy, an American college preparatory high school
- LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
Language
- Latin, ISO 639-1 language code
- La (Javanese) (ꦭ), a letter in the Javanese script
Places
- LA postcode area, for Lancaster and Furness areas of northwest England
- Las Anod, a city in Somalia
- Landeck (district), Austria (used on automobile license plates)
- Laos (ISO country code: LA)
- Latin America
- Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- Long Ashton, North Somerset, UK
- Los Altos (disambiguation), North America
- Los Angeles, California, the second most populous city in the US
- Louisiana, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: LA)
- Lower Alabama (South Alabama and Northwest Florida)
- Lewiston–Auburn, twin cities in Maine, US
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology, biochemistry, and medicine
- La (genus), a genus of moths
- Lauric acid, a saturated fatty acid
- Lewis acids and bases, literature abbreviation
- Linoleic acid, a fatty acid
- Lipoic acid, an organosulfur compound
- Lupus anticoagulant, an autoimmune disorder
- Local anesthetic, in medicine
Computing
- .la, country-code top level domain for Laos
- Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- Lanthanum, chemical element with symbol La
- Laser ablation, a technique of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam
- Linear algebra, a branch of mathematics
Other uses
- LaBradford Smith (born 1969), American basketball player
- Landscape architecture
- Language arts, an educational subject
- Legislative assistant