Lau or LAU may refer to:

People

Lau (surname) Lau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amy Lau (1966 or 1967–2025), American interior designer * Andrew Lau (born 1960), Hong Kong director and producer * Andy Lau (born 1961), Hong Kong singer and actor * Carina Lau (born ...

* Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien *

Lau clan Lau (also spelled Lav) is one of the seven Mohyal Brahmin clans of Punjab. Origin and history Early history LAU (Vasishtha) Lau Mohyal belongs to Vasishtha gotra. Vasishtha, a Manas Putra of Brahma, was thrice born. In the first birth, he was so ...

, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab * LAU (musician), Laura Fares * Lau Lauritzen Jr., Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director * Lau Lauritzen Sr., Danish film director, screenwriter and actor

Places

Lebanese American University The Lebanese American University (LAU; ) is a secular private American university with campuses in Beirut, Byblos, and New York. It is chartered by the board of regents of the University of the State of New York and is recognized by the Lebane ...

, a university in Lebanon * Lau, Estonia, a village in Estonia *

Lau, Gotland Lau is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Lau District, established on 1January 2016. Originally an island, it is now part of the main G ...

, a locality on Gotland, Sweden *

Lau, Nigeria Lau is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Lau and the area is dominated by Winlau people. Lau Local government has a border with Ardo Kola, Jalingo, Yorro and Zing local governments of Taraba ...

, a local government area * Lau (crater), a crater on Mars *

Lau Islands The Lau Islands (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty are inhabited. T ...

, Fiji *

Lau Province Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji. Its capital is at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba. The province forms part of the country's Eastern Division (which also includes the provinces of Kadavu and Lomaiviti), and ...

, Fiji * Laurel station (Mississippi), a passenger railway station in Laurel, United States * LAU, IATA code for

Manda Airport Manda Airport , also called Lamu Airport, is an airport in Kenya. Location Manda Airport is located on Manda Island in the Lamu Archipelago of Lamu County on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, on the Kenyan coast. Its location is approxim ...

, a public airport on Manda Island, Kenya

Languages

Lau language Lau or LAU may refer to: People * Lau (surname) * Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien * Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab * LAU (musician), Laura Fares * Lau Lauritzen ...

of Nigeria *

Lauan language Lauan is an East Fijian language spoken by about 16,000 people on a number of islands of eastern Fiji. Lauan is spoken in the Lau Province. However, the number of Lauan speakers has been declining due to the presence of other languages, which ...

, also called Lau, spoken in Fiji, ISO 639-3: llx *

Lau language (Malaita) Lau, also known as Mala, is an Oceanic language spoken on northeast Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. In 1999, Lau had about 16,937 first-language speakers, with many second-language speakers through Malaitan communities in the Solomon Islands ...

, spoken in the Solomon Islands, ISO 639-3: llu

Other uses

Lau Chan is a series of fighting games created by Sega AM2 and designer Yu Suzuki. The original ''Virtua Fighter'' was released in December 1993 and has received four main sequels and several spin-offs. The highly influential first ''Virtua Fighter'' gam ...

, fictional character in video game ''Virtua Fighter Series'' *

Lau (band) Lau is a British folk band from both Scotland and England, formed in 2005. Named after an Orcadian word meaning "natural light", the band is composed of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion, piano, electronics) and Aidan O'R ...

, a British folk music group *

Lambda Alpha Upsilon Latino America Unida, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. ( or LAU, also known as Condors) is a Latino oriented Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity A fraternity (; whence, "wikt:brotherhood, brotherhood") or fraternal organization is a ...

, a Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity * Local administrative unit (see

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS () is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard, adopted in 2003, is developed and regulated by the European ...

), a low level administrative division of a country, ranked below a province, region, or state * Lẩu, Vietnamese

hot pot Hot pot ( zh, c=, s=wikt:火锅, 火锅, t=wikt:火鍋, 火鍋, p=huǒguō, l=fire pot, first=t) or hotpot, also known as steamboat, is a dish (food), dish of soup/stock (food), stock kept simmering in a cooking pot, pot by a heat source on ...

Lauinger Library The Joseph Mark Lauinger Library is the main library of Georgetown University and the center of the seven-library Georgetown library system that includes 3.5 million volumes. It holds 1.7 million volumes on six floors and has accommodations for ...

, the main library at Georgetown University, which is commonly known as "Lau" *

Leeds Arts University Leeds Arts University is a specialist arts further and higher education institution, based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a main campus opposite the University of Leeds. History It was founded in 1846 as the Leeds Sch ...

Lau Taveuni Rotuma (Open Constituency, Fiji) Lau Taveuni Rotuma Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 ...

, a former electoral division * LAU, a United States military designator for aerial

rocket launcher A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile. History The earliest rocket launchers documented in imperial China consisted of arrows modified by the attachment of a rocket motor to the shaft a few i ...

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