Lee may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Lee'' (2007 film), Tamil-language sports action film * ''Lee'' (2017 film), Kannada-language action film * ''Lee'' (2023 film), biographical drama about Lee Miller, American photojournalist * ''Lee'' (novel), by Tito Perdue, about an angry and well-read septuagenarian * "Lee", a 1973 single by

The Detroit Emeralds The Detroit Emeralds are an American Rhythm and blues, R&B/soul vocal group, best known in the early 1970s. They enjoyed a run of successful records in the decade including their 1973 transatlantic hit single, "Feel the Need in Me". Career "The ...

* "Lee", a 2001 song by Tenacious D from their eponymous album

Businesses

Finance

Thomas H. Lee Partners Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. is an American private equity firm headquartered in Boston. The firm focuses on investing in middle market growth companies across various sectors, including financial technology, services, healthcare, technology, ...

, an American private equity firm founded in 1974 **

Lee Equity Partners Lee Equity Partners is an American private equity firm focused on growth capital investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries. History The firm is based in New York City and it was founded in 2006 by Thomas H. Lee, the n ...

, a breakaway firm founded in 2006

Manufacturers

* Lee Tires, a division of Goodyear *

Lee Filters Lee Filters is a manufacturer of colour filters and colour gels for the entertainment lighting, film and photography industries. Their colour gels for stage lighting are the industry standard in Europe while competing with other brands such as Ros ...

, a maker of lighting filters

Other businesses

Lee (brand) Lee is an American brand of denim jeans, first produced in 1889 in Salina, Kansas. The company is owned by Kontoor Brands, a spin-off of VF Corporation's Jeanswear Division. Since 2019 its headquarters has been in Greensboro, North Carolina, r ...

, an American clothing brand *

Lee Enterprises Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 72 daily newspapers in 25 states, and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee and is b ...

, an American media company (NYSE: LEE) *

Lee Data Lee Data Corporation was an American computer company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and active as a hardware company from 1979 to 1990. It was principally founded by John M. Lee and John Roy to sell data terminal systems compatible with the I ...

, a defunct American computer company

Education

Lee College Lee College is a public community college in Baytown, Texas. Lee College's main campus occupies near downtown Baytown and extension campuses throughout its service area. The school has an enrollment of over 7,773 total students as of Fall 2018 ...

, Bayton, Texas, United States *

Lee University Lee University is a Private university, private Church of God (Cleveland), Christian university in Cleveland, Tennessee. It was founded in 1918 as the Church of God Bible Training School with twelve students and one teacher, Nora I. Chambers. Th ...

, Cleveland, Tennessee, US

Meteorology

* List of storms named Lee *

Lee wave In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal gravity waves. These were discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, abov ...

, atmospheric oscillations as the wind moves over mountains *

Lee side In geography and seamanship, windward () and leeward () are directions relative to the wind. Windward is ''upwind'' from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; leeward is ''downwind'' from the point o ...

, the side of a ship, boat, or island that is not exposed to the wind

Names

Given name

Lee (given name) Lee is a unisex given name from the English word 'lee'. Also used as a surname as one of derivative spellings often confused with the Old English surname and given name ''leah'' ("clearing; meadow"), which evolved to 'leigh' in Middle English, and ...

, a given name in English

Surname

* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: **

Li (surname 李) Li or Lee (; ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia. It is the ...

or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname **

Li (surname 利) Lì is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is pronounced Lei in Cantonese, and often spelled Lei in Hong Kong and overseas-Chinese communities. It is listed 364th in the Song dynasty classic ''Hundred ...

or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese surname *

Lý (Vietnamese surname) Lý (, ) is a Vietnamese name, Vietnamese surname. It is the 14th most common Vietnamese surname and is the 1176th most common American surname, according to the 2010 United States Census. Origin Traditionally, the surname Li is derived from the ...

or Lí (李), a common Vietnamese surname *

Lee (Korean surname) Lee, I, or Yi () is the List of Korean surnames, second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (Korean surname), Kim (). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the populatio ...

or Rhee or Yi (Hanja , Hangul or ), a common Korean surname *

Lee (English surname) Lee is a common surname in English-speaking countries. In Canada, "Lee" was the 4th-most-common surname outside of Quebec. In the United States during the 2000 census, "Lee" was the 22nd-most-common surname.United States Census Bureau.Genealo ...

, a common English surname *

List of people with surname Lee This is a list of persons with the surname Lee. People A * Aaron Lee (born 1972), Singaporean prize-winning poet * Abra Lee (born 1978), American public horticulturalist, historian and writer * Abbey Lee (born 1987), Australian model, actress ...

List of people with surname Li This is a list of people with the surname Li (surname 李), Li (李). Lǐ is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is one of the most common surnames in China and the world, shared ...

List of people with the Korean family name Lee Lee (Korean surname), Lee (리 or 이) is a List of Korean surnames, surname among ethnic Koreans, with approximately 15% of all Koreans sharing the name. This is a list of notable people with the surname Lee, along with other spelling variations s ...

Places

United Kingdom

Lee, Devon Berrynarbor (historically Berry Narbor, Berrie Nerbert, etc) is a village, civil parish and former manor in the North Devon North Devon is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based jus ...

Lee, Hampshire Lee is a hamlet in Romsey civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, ...

Lee, London Lee, also known as Lee Green, is an area of South East London, England, straddling the border of the London Borough of Lewisham and the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is located northwest of Eltham and southeast of Lewisham. It was in Kent bef ...

* Lee, Mull, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

in Argyll and Bute * Lee, Northumberland, a

* Lee, Shropshire, a

Lee-on-the-Solent Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside district of the borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles (8 km) west of Portsmouth. The area is located on the coast of the Solent. It is primarily a resi ...

, Hampshire * Lee-over-Sands, Essex *

Lee District (Metropolis) Plumstead (1855–1894) and then Lee (1894–1900) was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London from 1855 to 1900. It was formed as the Plumstead district by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and was governed ...

* The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee * River Lee — alternative name for

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 ...

United States

Lee, California Lee (also, Lees Camp) is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located near the Nevada state line, east of Beatty Junction. A post office operated at Lee from 1907 to 1912. Its first postmaster was John H. Lawrence. The name ...

* Lee, Florida *

Lee, Illinois Lee is a village in DeKalb County and Lee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 313 at the 2020 census. Geography Lee is located on the border of DeKalb and Lee counties at (41.794240, -88.940951). Viking Vie, the main street of t ...

Lee, Indiana Lee is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Monon Township, White County, Indiana, Monon Township, White County, Indiana, White County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History The site of what is now Lee is first recorded as a statio ...

* Lee, Maine *

Lee, Massachusetts Lee is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, metropolitan statistical area. The population was 5,788 at the 2020 census. Lee, which includes the villages of South and East Lee, is ...

, a New England town ** Lee (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town *

Lee, Nevada Lee is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, Elko County, Nevada, United States. The community is located on the reservation land belonging to, and constituting the sole organized community of, the ...

Lee, New Hampshire Lee is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,520 at the 2020 census. The town is a rural farm and bedroom community, being close to the University of New Hampshire. History Lee was first settled by E ...

* Lee, New York, a town ** Lee (hamlet), New York, within the town of Lee *

Lees Station, Tennessee Lees Station (also Lee, Lees, or Let) is an unincorporated community in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. It lies along U.S. Route 127 southwest of the city of Pikeville, the county seat of Bledsoe County.Rand McNally. ''The Road Atlas '08.'' Chicago: ...

, also called Lee *

Lee Peak The Rawson Mountains () lie within the Queen Maud Mountains to the southeast of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. They are a crescent-shaped range of tabular, ice-covered mountains including Fuller Dome, Mount Wyatt and Mount Verlautz, standing so ...

, in Missouri *

Mount Lee Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Hollywood Sign is located on its southern slope. History The original unnamed peak was one of the "three sisters" along wi ...

, in California * Van Aken–Lee (RTA Rapid Transit station) (signed "Lee – Van Aken"), a station on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio

Elsewhere

* Lée, southwestern France * Lee, Uttarakhand, India *

Electoral district of Lee Lee is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the women's suffrage campaigner Mary Lee (suffragist), Mary Lee, it is an 18.9 km2 suburban electorate ...

, in South Australia *

River Lee The River Lee () is a river in Ireland. It rises in the Shehy Mountains on the western border of County Cork and flows eastwards through Cork, where it splits in two for a short distance, creating an island on which Cork's city centre is b ...

, in Ireland * Lee (Vechte), a river in Germany

Vehicles

, a ship or boat's downwind side *

M3 Lee The M3 Lee, officially Medium Tank, M3, was an American medium tank used during World War II. The turret was produced in two different forms, one for US needs and one modified to British requirements to place the radio next to the commander. ...

, an American WWII tank