Lea or LEA may refer to:

Places

Australia

* Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows *

RAAF Base Learmonth RAAF Base Learmonth, also known as Learmonth Airport , is a joint use Royal Australian Air Force base and airport, civil airport. It is located near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia, Exmouth on the north-west coast of Western Australia. R ...

, IATA airport code "LEA"

England

* Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway * Lea, Devon, a location * Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish * Lea, Lancashire, a village * Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish * Lea, Lydham, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Pontesbury, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Wiltshire, a village *

River Lea The River Lea ( ) is in the East of England and Greater London. It originates in Bedfordshire, in the Chiltern Hills, and flows southeast through Hertfordshire, along the Essex border and into Greater London, to meet the River Thames at Bow Cr ...

, a tributary of the Thames ** Lea Bridge, Greater London, the area around the bridge over the River Lea

Elsewhere

* Lea, a river in Biscay, Basque Country, Spain * Lea County, New Mexico, United States

People and fictional characters

* Lea (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lea (surname), a list of people * Helena Nordheim (1903–1943), Dutch Olympic champion gymnast nicknamed "Lea" * Lea (musician) (stylized as LEA), stage name of German singer-songwriter and keyboardist Lea-Marie Becker (born 1992)

Arts and entertainment

* Liberian Entertainment Awards (LEA), an annual Liberian music awards show * ''Léa'' (film), a 2011 French film * ''Lea'' (album), a 1988 studio album by Lea Salonga * ''Lea'' (film), a 1997 Czech drama directed by Ivan Fíla * "Lea", a song from the 1986 album ''

Fahrenheit The Fahrenheit scale () is a scale of temperature, temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the German-Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accou ...

'' by Toto

Education

* Lea College, Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States, a private liberal arts college from 1966 to 1973 * Local education authority, a public body in the United Kingdom

Government and politics

* Labour Electoral Association, British Liberal-Labour organisation *

Law enforcement agency A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for law enforcement within a specific jurisdiction through the employment and deployment of law enforcement officers and their resources. The most common type of law enforcement ...

, or law enforcement authority, in North America * Local electoral area, a district for local elections in Ireland

Military

* Operation Léa, a French Union operation during the First Indochina War * USS ''Lea'' (DD-118), a destroyer that served during both world wars

Technology

* Late embryogenesis abundant proteins (LEA proteins), proteins that protect against protein aggregation due to dehydration or osmotic stress * LEA (cipher), a lightweight block cipher * Load effective address, a computer instruction * Length extension attack, a cryptographic attack * LEA, a General Motors car engine; see GM Ecotec engine * LEA, a Honda car engine; see Honda L engine

Codes and symbols

* LEA, Lear Corporation New York Stock Exchange symbol * lea, ISO 639-3 code of Shabunda Lega language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * LEA, Leagrave railway station's United Kingdom station code

Other uses

* Lea baronets, a title in the baronetage of the United Kingdom * ''Lea'' (katydid), a genus of katydid * LEA proteins (Late Embryogenesis Abundant proteins) * Lea test or LEA Vision Test System, a series of pediatric vision tests *

Lea (unit) The lea or lay was a English units, British unit of length. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' describes it as a Measurement, measure "of varying quantity". It cites quotations from within various areas of the textile industry, which define it as "8 ...

, a former British unit of length * ''Lea'' (magazine), a German weekly women's magazine