The inspiration for Fedora 37 will start with the letter L, and be Hedy Lamarr.

Barbara Liskov - (b.1939) Liskov got her degree in mathematics and then became interested in the still-infant field of computer programming. She worked on the problem of automated natural language translation before earning her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1968 — one of the first women anywhere to earn a doctorate in that field.

Her achievements include the Venus operating systems (a low-cost, interactive time-sharing system); implementation of the CLU programming language, and its extension, Argus (the first high-level language to support distributed programs, employing the technique of promise pipelining); and Thor (an object-oriented database system). She is also known for the eponymous Liskov Substitution Principle, an important logical/mathematical procedure in the implementation of any object-oriented programming system.

Jim Lovell - (b.1928) Lovell studied engineering and was a US Navy captain before he commanded the iconic Apollo 13 mission. He was one of the first three human beings to fly to the Moon, orbit it, and get back to Earth.
He was the first person to fly into space four times. One of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, Lovell was the first to fly to it twice. He is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He co-authored the 1994 book Lost Moon, on which the 1995 film Apollo 13, in which he appeared in a cameo, was based.

Lewis Howard Latimer - (1848 –1928) Latimer was an inventor and patent draftsman. Before he was born, his mother and father escaped from slavery in Virginia and fled to Chelsea, Massachusetts. Latimer joined the U.S. Navy at the age of 16 in 1864 and served as a Landsman on the USS Massasoit. After receiving an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, he gained employment at a patent law firm, where he moved up through the ranks to become a head draftsman.

His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.

Edwin Herbert Land - (1909 - 1991) Land was born to Jewish parents in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied physics at Harvard University, more specifically, optics, but left after his freshman year, moving to New York City. There he invented the first inexpensive filters capable of polarizing light. He would sneak into a laboratory at Columbia University late at night to use their equipment.  He also availed himself of the New York Public Library to scour the scientific literature for prior work on polarizing substances. His breakthrough arrived when he realized that, instead of attempting to grow a large single crystal of a polarizing substance, he could manufacture a film with millions of micron-sized polarizing crystals that were coaxed into perfect alignment with each other.

A scientist and inventor, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.

Hedy Lamarr - Lamarr was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. At the beginning of World War II, she and George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.

Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.