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

Names

Given name

* Lee (given name), a given name in English

Surname

* Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese surname *Lý (Vietnamese surname) or Lí (李), a common Vietnamese surname * Lee (Korean surname) or Rhee or Yi (Hanja , Hangul or ), a common Korean surname * Lee (English surname), a common English surname * List of people with surname Lee **List of people with surname Li ** List of people with the Korean family name Lee

Places

United Kingdom

* Lee, Devon * Lee, Hampshire * Lee, London * Lee, Mull, a List of United Kingdom locations: Lea-Lei#Lea-Lei, location in Argyll and Bute * Lee, Northumberland, a List of United Kingdom locations: Lea-Lei#Lea-Lei, location * Lee, Shropshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Lea-Lei#Lea-Lei, location * Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire * Lee-over-Sands, Essex * Lee District (Metropolis) * The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee * River Lee — alternative name for River Lea

United States

* Lee, California * Lee, Florida * Lee, Illinois * Lee, Indiana * Lee, Maine * Lee, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Lee (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town * Lee, Nevada * Lee, New Hampshire * Lee, New York, a town ** Lee (hamlet), New York, within the town of Lee * Lees Station, Tennessee, also called Lee * Lee Peak, in Missouri * Mount Lee, 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, in South Australia * River Lee, in Ireland * Lee (Vechte), a river in Germany

Vehicles

* Lee side, a ship or boat's downwind side * M3 Lee, an American WWII tank