Gold Star Illini
Those “Gold Star Illini” are those alumni who answered their nation’s call and gave their lives as the ultimate sacrifice. The listing here includes all known Illini killed while serving in the Armed Forces in official recognized wars and conflicts for which a campaign medal or battle streamer has been authorized.
World War II
(1941-1946)
- Lane, Paul Lilja M.D.
- Lang, John Robinson
- Langston, Kenneth Ray
- Large, Theodore Wilcox
- Larsen, Howard Granum
- Larson, Paul Rutherford
- Larson, Reed Vannatta
- Latham, James Knight
- Latimer, William Stuart
- Laurence, Robert Egnell
- Lawler, Jack Dudley
- Lawler, Charles Harold
- Lawler, Horace Allan
- Lawson, Fred Kelly Jr.
- Leavenworth, William Clarence
- Leech, James Warren
- Leeds, Philip Vern
- Leeper, Thomas Hugh
- Lemmon, Ross Barton Jr.
- Leonard, Charles Jackson
- Levindowski, Robert Leon
- Levy, Benjamin Henry Jr.
- Levy, Sherman Maas
- Lewis, Craig Edward
- Lewis, Everett Russell
- Lewis, Ralph Edward
- Liese, Edward Ernest
- Lilienthal, Albert Fredric
- Limberopulos, Socrates
- Lindau, Edward William
- Lindeman, Willard Harold
- Little, Thomas Vest
- Littlejohn, Ellis Jesse
- Loesch, Harry John
- Lopresti, Philip Joseph M.D.
- Loseff, Samuel Alvin M.D.
- Lothrop, Robert Blake
- Lowy, Reginald Jay
- Loy, Garrett Wesley
- Lubell, Samuel Sidney


