Levy, Lévy or Levies may refer to:

People

Levy (surname) Levy or Lévy is a surname generally of Hebrew origin. It is one of the 12 tribes that lived in judea,people that have this surname are traditionally descendants of Levy, son of jacob, Another spelling of the surname—among multiple other spelli ...

, people with the surname Levy or Lévy * Levy Adcock (born 1988), American football player * Levy Barent Cohen (1747–1808), Dutch-born British financier and community worker * Levy Fidelix (1951–2021), Brazilian conservative politician, businessman and journalist * Levy Gerzberg (born 1945), Israeli-American entrepreneur, inventor, and business person * Levy Li (born 1987), Miss Malaysia Universe 2008–2009 * Levy Mashiane (born 1996), South African footballer * Levy Matebo Omari (born 1989), Kenyan long-distance runner * Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer * Levy Middlebrooks (born 1966), American basketball player * Levy Mokgothu, South African footballer *

Levy Mwanawasa Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (3 September 1948 – 19 August 2008) was the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a campaign to rid the corrupti ...

(1948–2008), President of Zambia from 2002 * Levy Nzoungou (born 1998), Congolese-French rugby player, playing in England * Levy Rozman (born 1995), American chess IM, coach, and content creator * Levy Sekgapane (born 1990), South African operatic tenor * Levy Lee Simon, American playwright, actor, director and screenwriter * Levy Solomons (1730–1792), British-Canadian merchant and fur trader * Levy Thorpe (1889–1935), English footballer * Levy Tran (born 1983), American actress and model * Levy Yakete (1965–2014), Central African Republic politician * Levy baronets, extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Places

* Levy, Missouri, a community * Levy, South Carolina, an unincorporated community *

Levy County, Florida Levy County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the North central Florida part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 42,915. Its county seat is Bronson, Florida, Brons ...

* Levy Island, Crystal Sound, Antarctica

Military organizations

A levy (plural levies) is a military force raised ("levied") in a particular manner. In the

Roman legion The Roman legion (, ) was the largest military List of military legions, unit of the Roman army, composed of Roman citizenship, Roman citizens serving as legionary, legionaries. During the Roman Republic the manipular legion comprised 4,200 i ...

this typically means "farmer soldier" militia units raised by conscription that provided most of light and heavy infantry composition—most of which were of poor training and little fighting ability—but not always. In the British Empire, levies were units raised by local officials for local tasks, typically for local order and security. * Conscript forces ** Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription ** Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England ** Opolchenie, a Russian version of medieval conscription **

Levée en masse ''Levée en masse'' ( or, in English, ''mass levy'') is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often in the face of invasion. The concept originated during the French Revolutionary Wars, particularly for the period fo ...

, mass conscript armies, especially that of Revolutionary France **

Volkssturm The (, ) was a ''levée en masse'' national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was set up by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established on 25 September 1944. It was staffed by conscri ...

, a Nazi-German organized conscription during (last days of) WWII * Locally raised forces within the British Empire ** Aden Protectorate Levies (became Federal Regular Army of the South Arabian Federation, which then became the army of the People's Republic of South Yemen) ** Iraq Levies ** Kachin Levies **

Pakistan Levies The Pakistan Levies (Urdu: ), or Federal Levies, are provincial paramilitary forces (gendarmeries) in Pakistan, whose primary missions are law enforcement, assisting the civilian police (where co-located) in maintaining law and order, and condu ...

*** Balochistan Levies *** Malakand Levies *** Swat Levies *** Dir Levies ** Trucial Oman Levies (became Union Defence Force of the UAE)

Compulsory government measures

* To force someone into military or national service by means of

conscription Conscription, also known as the draft in the United States and Israel, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it conti ...

** Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription ** Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England * A legal action, where property of a judgment debtor is taken for public sale to satisfy a monetary

judgment Judgement (or judgment) is the evaluation of given circumstances to make a decision. Judgement is also the ability to make considered decisions. In an informal context, a judgement is opinion expressed as fact. In the context of a legal trial ...

* An imposition of a

fine Fine may refer to: Characters * Fran Fine, the title character of ''The Nanny'' * Sylvia Fine (''The Nanny''), Fran's mother on ''The Nanny'' * Officer Fine, a character in ''Tales from the Crypt'', played by Vincent Spano Legal terms * Fine (p ...

* To take money in order to pay off a

tax A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on an individual or legal entity by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to regulate and reduce negative externalities. Tax co ...

liability * To wage

war War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organi ...

* The statutory levy collected from bookmakers in the UK by the Horserace Betting Levy Board *

Private copying levy A private copying levy (also known as blank media tax or levy) is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy (additional to any general sales tax) is charged on purchases of recordable media. Such taxes are in place in variou ...

, a tax on recordable media typically allocated to the developers of "content" * E-levy, tax bill in Ghana

Businesses

* Levy Restaurants, brand in the United States and Canada * Levy's (department store), former Arizona chain * Léon & Lévy, French makers of stereoscopic views and postcards * Henry S. Levy and Sons, former Brooklyn bakery * Levy & Klein, former architectural firm in Chicago * Michel Lévy Frères, Parisian publishing house

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