Lais or Laïs may refer to one of the following:

Places

* Lais, Indonesia, a district in the

Musi Banyuasin Regency Musi Banyuasin Regency is a regency of South Sumatra province, in Indonesia. Originally much larger, it was reduced by about 45% of its former area on 10 April 2002 by the splitting off of most of its eastern and northeastern districts to form the ...

in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia *

Lais River Lais or Laïs may refer to one of the following: Places * Lais, Indonesia, a district in the Musi Banyuasin Regency in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia * Lais River in Arjeplog Municipality, Sweden * Lais (barony), a former barony and castle nea ...

Arjeplog Municipality Arjeplog Municipality (, ; ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arjeplog. The area, which now is Arjeplog Municipality, used to be a single parish (Swedish: ''socken''), which was made into a munic ...

, Sweden *

Lais (barony) Laiuse (, ) is a small borough (') in Estonia. It is located in Jõgeva County and is a part of Jõgeva Parish. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 371. Laiuse Middle School is one of the oldest in Estonia, being establishe ...

, a former barony and castle near Tartu, Estonia *

Dan (biblical city) Dan (), and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, and belonging to the tribe of Dan, its namesake. It was later the site of a royal sanctuary built by Jer ...

, Latin name for Laish, an earlier Biblical name for the city of Dan

People

Lais of Corinth Lais of Corinth () (fl. 425 BC) was a famous hetaira or courtesan of ancient Greece, who was probably born in Corinth. She shared a name with the younger hetaira Lais of Hyccara; as ancient authors (in their usually indirect accounts) often con ...

(fl. 425 BC), a courtesan *

Lais of Hyccara Lais of Hyccara () (died 340 BC) was a hetaira (courtesan) of Ancient Greece. She was probably born in Hyccara, Sicily (modern Carini) and died in Thessaly. She was a contemporary of another courtesan with the same name, Lais of Corinth. Since an ...

(fl. 385 BC), a courtesan *

Laïs (physician) Laïs and Lais () (fl. 1st/2nd century BCE) was an ancient Greek physician and midwife known for her disagreements with Elephantis, and for Pliny's skepticism about the efficacy of her medicine. Pliny wrote about her disagreement with Elephantis ...

(fl. 1st/2nd century BC), an ancient Greek midwife and physician *

Laís (footballer) Arthur Antunes de Moraes e Castro (11 November 1899 – 20 December 1963), known as Laís, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in nine matches for the Brazil national football team The Brazil national football ...

, Brazilian footballer

Other

Laïs (band) Laïs is a Flemish group that creates folk, and world music consisting of polyphonic close harmony songs, occasionally a cappella, based on self-composed melodies with lyrics dating back to the Middle Ages. "Laïs" is a Celtic word, meaning "v ...

, a musical group * Plural for

Lai (poetic form) A ''lai'' (or ''lay lyrique'', "lyric lay", to distinguish it from a '' lai breton'') is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. ''Lais'' were mainly composed in France a ...

Breton lai A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-wor ...

s, a form of British medieval romance literature ** ''Lais'' of Marie de France * Genus of flowering plants, now considered to be ''

Hippeastrum ''Hippeastrum'' () is a genus of 116 species, and over 600 Hybrid (biology), hybrids and cultivars, of perennial plant, perennial, herbaceous plant, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, ...

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