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- Denise Lafitte - daughter of French pirate Jean Lafitte in Italian comic book Zagor.
- The Lagoon Company - the main protagonists of the anime and manga series Black Lagoon (also the name of their torpedo boat). The crew consists of:
- Dutch, the Lagoon's captain.
- Revy, the gunslinger.
- Benny, the technician and computer hacker.
- Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, the negotiator and interpreter.
- John Milton "Black Jack" Lee - the captain of the Ivory Web in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. He was once a Royal Navy officer, but was accused of treason and piracy, and he and his frigate are sunk in 1796 by a Royal Navy ship commanded by commodore Horatio Nelson. Two hundred years later, seamen fear him and his ship as ghosts.
- Missee Lee - a female Chinese pirate in Arthur Ransome's Missee Lee
- Lego Pirates - with all the typical pirate characteristics such as eye patches and wooden legs, launched by Lego in 1989 with considerable success.
- Captain Levasseur - is a dashing French Buccaneer who briefly partners with Captain Blood, played by Basil Rathbone in the film. Levasseur and Blood fight a duel to the death over the fate of Arabella Bishop.
- Captain Red Ned Lynch - and his crew of the Blarney Cock are pirates in the romantic adventure film Swashbuckler (1976).
- Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen, protagonists of Scott Lynch's "Red Seas Under Red Skies", are in essence land-bound thieves and swindlers "who don't know one end of a galley from another" but nevertheless get unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew.
- Monkey D. Luffy - is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and the protagonist in the world of One Piece, an anime and manga series. His crew includes:
- Roronoa Zoro, the swordsman
- Nami, the navigator
- Usopp, the marksman
- Sanji, the chef
- Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor
- Nico Robin, the archeologist
- Franky, the shipwright
- Brook, the musician
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