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(from the verb "lucere" - "to shine"), from which the English name '' Luke'' comes.

Persons with the name

In arts and entertainment

* Lucas Bryant (born 1978), Canadian-American actor *

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is kno ...

(1472–1553), German painter * Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), German Renaissance painter * Lucas Cruikshank (born 1993), American internet celebrity * Lucas Grabeel (born 1984), American actor * Lucas Hedges (born 1996), American actor *

Lucas Jade Zumann Lucas Jade Zumann (born December 12, 2000) is an American actor. He played Milo in the horror film ''Sinister 2'', Jamie Fields in the indie comedy-drama film ''20th Century Women'' and Gilbert Blythe in ''Anne with an E''. Personal life Zuman ...

(born 2000), American actor *

Lucas Secon Lucas Secon, (born 3 November 1970) also known by the stage name Lucas, is a record producer, songwriter and rapper. He has written and produced for artists including the Pussycat Dolls, Alesso, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minog ...

(born 1970), Danish-American rapper * Lucas Till (born 1990), American actor *

Lucas Wong Wong Yuk-hei ( zh, t=黃旭熙; born 25 January 1999), better known mononymously as Lucas (), is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and model based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT, its Chinese sub-unit WayV and rot ...

(born 1999), Hong Kong rapper, singer and model

In politics, government, and religion

Lucas, Archbishop of Esztergom Lucas ( hu, Lukács; 1120 – 1181), also known as Luke, was a Hungarian prelate and diplomat in the 12th century. He was Bishop of Eger between 1156 and 1158, and Archbishop of Esztergom from 1158 until his death in 1181. Lucas is believed to ...

(c. 1120–1181), Hungarian prelate and diplomat *

Lucas Atkinson Lucas Atkinson (born July 6, 1981) is an American politician. He is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 113th District, serving since 2016. He is a member of the Democratic party. Background Atkinson attended Clemson ...

(born 1981), American politician * Lucas Bersamin (born 1949), Filipino judge * Lucas Bolsius (born 1958), Dutch historian and politician *

Lucas Hartong Lucas Hartong (born 24 May 1963) is a Dutch politician. He served as a member of the European Parliament for the Party for Freedom between 22 June 2010 and 1 July 2014. He was leader of the PVV delegation from 24 March to 1 July 2014. Early life ...

(born 1963), Dutch politician * Lucas Papademos (born 1947), Greek bank official and prime minister *

Lucas Samalenge Lucas Samalenge (2 October 1928 – 19 November 1961) was a Congolese and Katangese politician who was Katanga's Secretary of State of Information. Early life and career Samalenge was born on 2 October 1928. He became a nationally elected Me ...

(1928–1961), Congolese and Katangese politician

In sport

In association football

Lucas Arzán Lucas Arzán (born July 25, 1999) is a Puerto Rican football player who played as a midfielder for the Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public research univ ...

(born 1999), Puerto Rican football player *

Lucas Biglia Lucas Rodrigo Biglia (; born 30 January 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir. Formerly of Argentinos Juniors and Independiente, he spent seven seasons with A ...

(born 1986), Argentine currently playing for Milan *

Lucas Cavallini Lucas Daniel Cavallini (born December 28, 1992) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Liga MX club Tijuana and the Canada national team. Early life Cavallini was born in Canada to an Argentinian father and a Can ...

(born 1992), Canadian currently playing for Vancouver Whitecaps *

Lucas Hernandez Lucas François Bernard Hernandez (; born 14 February 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left back or centre back for club Bayern Munich and the France national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, He ...

(born 1996), French currently playing for Bayern Munich *

Lucas Leiva Lucas Pezzini Leiva (born 9 January 1987), known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio. Lucas began his career as a box-to-box midfielder at Grêmio where he won the ...

(born 1987), Brazilian currently playing for Lazio *

Lucas Licht Lucas Matías Licht (born 6 April 1981) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Club Atlético Villa San Carlos mainly as a left-back but also as a left winger. Club career Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Licht grew up in the youth aca ...

(born 1981), Argentine-Israeli currently playing for Gimnasia La Plata *

Lucas Lobos Lucas Armando Lobos (born August 3, 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is a Mexican naturalized citizen. Lobos is a two-time winner of the Liga MX Balón de Oro for Best Player and f ...

(born 1981), Argentine, played for Tigres UANL * Lucas Moura (born 1992), Brazilian currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur * Lucas Neill (born 1978), Australian, played for Galatasaray and Blackburn Rovers *

Lucas Paquetá Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima (born 27 August 1997), better known as Lucas Paquetá (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club West Ham United and the Brazil national team. Club car ...

(born 1997), Brazilian currently playing for West Ham United *

Lucas Pérez Lucas Pérez Martínez (, born 10 September 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primera Federación club Deportivo La Coruña. After spending the first years of his career in the lower leagues, only appearing ...

(born 1988), Spanish currently playing for Alavés *

Lucas Piazon Lucas Domingues Piazon (born 20 January 1994) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club S.C. Braga. He plays as a second striker or a winger, as an attacking midfielder. He spent a decade at Chelsea, though he onl ...

(born 1994), Brazilian currently playing for Rio Ave *

Lucas Radebe Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe OIS (born 12 April 1969) is a South African former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He began playing in South Africa with Kaizer Chiefs, before transferring to Leeds United, where he played 256 m ...

(born 1969), South African, played for Leeds United and Kaizer Chiefs * Lucas Rios Marques (born 1988), Brazilian currently playing for Figueirense *

Lucas Rougeaux Lucas Rougeaux (born 10 March 1994) is a French footballer who plays as a centre back. Rougeaux joined the OGC Nice academy in 2008 and made his Ligue 1 debut for the club as a late substitute in a 4-0 loss to Evian on 12 May 2013. He has repr ...

(born 1994), French currently playing for OGC Nice *

Lucas Salinas Lucas Spinola Salinas (born 14 October 1995), known as Lucas Salinas, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for F.C. Ashdod in the Israeli Premier League. He also holds Spanish citizenship. Club career Salinas made ...

(born 1995), Brazilian football player * Lucas Severino (born 1979), Brazilian, played for FC Tokyo * Lucas Silva, several people *

Lucas Torreira Lucas Sebastián Torreira Di Pascua (; born 11 February 1996) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Uruguay national team. Club career Early career Torreira started his you ...

(born 1996), Uruguayan currently playing for Arsenal * Lucas Torró (born 1994), Spanish currently playing for Eintracht Frankfurt * Lucas Vázquez (born 1991), Spanish currently playing for Real Madrid * Lucas Zelarayán (born 1992), Argentine currently playing for Columbus Crew *

Lucas Zen Lucas Zen (born June 17, 1991 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian football defensive midfielder A midfielder is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively ...

(born 1991), Brazilian currently playing for Botafogo *

Jefferson Lucas Azevedo dos Santos Jefferson Lucas Azevedo dos Santos known as Lucas (born 25 October 1984) is a Brazilian association football, footballer. Biography Born in Londrina, Paraná, Lucas played a match in 2004 Copa do Brasil for Londrina Esporte Clube, then transfer ...

(born 1984), Brazilian football player

In basketball

* Lucas Dias (born 1995), Brazilian player *

Lucas Mariano Lucas Fernandes Mariano (born 24 September 1993) is a Brazilian basketball player who plays for Franca of the NBB. Youth career Born in Planaltina, Lucas moved with his family to Franca when he was just five years old. Encouraged by his mother ...

(born 1993), Brazilian player *

Lucas Mondelo Lucas Mondelo García (born 28 July 1967) is a Spanish basketball coach for Toyota Antelopes and the Spain women's national team. Coach career As a club coach, Mondelo first coached professionally at Club Bàsquet Olesa from Olesa de Montserr ...

(born 1967), Spanish coach *

Lucas Nogueira Lucas Riva Amarante "Bebê" Nogueira (born July 26, 1992) is a Brazilian professional basketball player who plays for the Guelph Nighthawks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. He was selected with the 16th overall pick in the 2013 NBA dra ...

(born 1992), Brazilian player * Lucas Tohătan (born 1999), Romanian player

In other sports

* Lucas Glover (born 1979), American professional golfer *

Lucas González Amorosino Lucas González Amorosino (born 2 November 1985) is an Argentine rugby union player who plays fullback or wing. He was part of the Argentina sevens team before joining Leicester in 2009 following his full international début against that s ...

(born 1985), Argentine rugby player *

Lucas di Grassi Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula E World Championship for Mahindra Racing. He became the FIA Formula E Champion in 2016–2017, achieved three overall podi ...

(born 1984), Brazilian racing car driver * Lucas Martins (born 1988), Brazilian mixed martial artist * Lucas Matthysse (born 1982), Argentine boxer *

Lucas Miedler Lucas Miedler (; born 21 June 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of World No. 201 achieved on 15 October 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 53 achieved 7 November 2022. He has won two doubles titles on ...

(born 1996), Austrian tennis player *

Lucas Niang Lucas Niang (born August 18, 1998) is an American football offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas Christian University (TCU) and was drafted by the Chiefs in the ...

(born 1998), American football player *

Lucas Patrick Lucas Carter Patrick (born July 30, 1993) is an American football center for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke. Early years Patrick played high school football at Brentwood High Schoo ...

(born 1993), American football player * Lucas Raymond (born 2002), Swedish ice hockey player *

Lucas Saatkamp Lucas Saatkamp (born 6 March 1986) is a Brazilian volleyball player, a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Brazilian club SESI São Paulo, winning a gold medal with Brazil at the 2010 World Championships, a participant and silver ...

(born 1986), Brazilian volleyball player; generally known as "Lucas" or "Lucão" *

Lucas Vita Lucas Pereira Vita (born March 1, 1985 in São Paulo) is a male water polo player from Brazil. He competed for his native country at the 2007 Pan American Games, where he claimed the silver medal with the Brazil men's national water polo team ...

(born 1985), Brazilian water polo player

Fictional characters with the name

* Lucas (''Mother 3''), main character of the 2006 video game ''Mother 3'' * Lucas (''Pokémon''), male protagonist of the games ''Pokémon Diamond'' and ''Pearl'' *

Lucas Fitzgerald Lucas Fitzgerald is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Scott Major. The actor had previously appeared in ''Neighbours'' in 1993 as Darren Stark. He received a call to play Lucas shortly after he was ge ...

, character in the Network Ten soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Lucas Goodwin, character in Netflix series ''House of Cards'' *

Lucas Gottesman ''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American teen drama television series created by I. Marlene King for Freeform. It is based on Sara Shepard's novel series of the same name. Some of the characters appeared in the spin-off shows '' Ravenswood'' ...

, a character in ''Pretty Little Liars'' *

Lucas Hay The following is a list of characters that first appeared on the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' in 2009, by first appearance. Hayley Ramsey Natty Natty, played by former ''Emmerdale'' actor Danny Tennant, made his first on-screen appea ...

, character in Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Lucas Hellinger, character in the television series ''FlashForward'' *

Lucas Holden Lucas Holden is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Rhys Wakefield. The character made his first screen appearance on 5 August 2005. Lucas was the youngest member of Holden family. Wakefie ...

, character in the soap opera ''Home and Away'' * Lucas Jackson, name of Paul Newman's character in ''Cool Hand Luke'' * Lucas Johnson, character in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' *

Lucas Kane ''Fahrenheit'' (known as ''Indigo Prophecy'' in North America) is an action-adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 in September 2005. The plot follows Lucas Kane, a man ...

, main character in the ''Fahrenheit'' video game * Lucas Kendell, a character from the television series ''

Power Rangers Time Force ''Power Rangers Time Force'' is a television series and the ninth season of the '' Power Rangers'' franchise, based on the 24th Super Sentai series ''Mirai Sentai Timeranger'', running for 40 half-hour episodes from February to November 2001. ...

''. * Lucas Lee, teenage character in ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' *Lucas McCain, name of character played by Chuck Connors in ''The Rifleman'' TV series * Lucas North, one of the main characters of the television series ''Spooks'' *

Lucas Roberts Lucas Horton is a fictional character on the American daytime soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'', portrayed by Bryan Dattilo. Introduced in 1993 as Lucas Roberts, the military cadet son of businesswoman Kate Roberts, he later discovers he is ...

, character on the NBC soap opera ''Days of our Lives'' *

Lucas Scott Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character and the main protagonist from The WB /CW television series '' One Tree Hill'' created by Mark Schwahn and portrayed by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is a talented basketball player and writer. He is rival ...

, teen character on ''One Tree Hill'' *

Lucas Sinclair '' Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror television series created for Netflix by the Duffer Brothers, set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. The first season, set in November 1983, focuses on the inv ...

is a main character on "Stranger Things" *

Lucas Trent Midnighter is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books first published by WildStorm and later DC Comics once it absorbed the former. The character was created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Hitch. The character made his ...

, Midnighter's secret identity *

Lucas Valieri '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and ...

, a character in ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' * Lucas Wolenczak, teenage character on ''SeaQuest DSV'' * Lucas, character from Minecraft Story Mode * Lucas, a character from the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence and its sequel A Plague Tale: Requiem