We study lower bounds of a general family of L-functions on the
$1$
-line. More precisely, we show that for any
$F(s)$
in this family, there exist arbitrarily large t such that
$F(1+it)\geq e^{\gamma _F} (\log _2 t + \log _3 t)^m + O(1)$
, where m is the order of the pole of
$F(s)$
at
$s=1$
. This is a generalisation of the result of Aistleitner, Munsch and Mahatab [‘Extreme values of the Riemann zeta function on the
$1$
-line’, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN2019(22) (2019), 6924–6932]. As a consequence, we get lower bounds for large values of Dedekind zeta-functions and Rankin-Selberg L-functions of the type
$L(s,f\times f)$
on the
$1$
-line.