Lewis may refer to:

Names

Lewis (given name) Lewis () is a masculine English given name, English-language given name. It was coined as an anglicisation of given names in other languages. "Lewis" has been used to anglicise the Irish language, Irish name "'", the German name "", and the French ...

, including a list of people with the given name *

Lewis (surname) Lewis is a surname in the English language. It has several independent origins. One of the origins of the surname, in England and Wales, is from the Norman personal name ''Lowis'', ''Lodovicus''. This name is from the post-Classical Latin name '' ...

, including a list of people with the surname

Music

Lewis (musician) Randall A. Wulff, better known by his stage name Lewis, and also known as Lewis Baloue and Randy Duke, is a Canadian singer and musician. He released a number of albums in the 1980s, but did not become widely known until they were re-released in 2 ...

, Canadian singer * " Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead from ''My Iron Lung''

Places

* Lewis (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon *

Isle of Lewis The Isle of Lewis () or simply Lewis () is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands. The t ...

, the northern part of Lewis and Harris, Western Isles, Scotland

United States

* Lewis, Colorado * Lewis, Indiana *

Lewis, Iowa Lewis is a city in Cass County, Iowa, United States, along the East Nishnabotna River. The population was 357 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. De ...

Lewis, Kansas Lewis is a city in Edwards County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 400. It is located along Highway 50. History Lewis was founded ''circa'' 1885. It was named for journalist M.M. Lewis. The fi ...

Lewis Wharf Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End. The granite structures on the wharf were built as an early 19th-century shopping mall in the era before railroads when water transport was the most efficient ...

, Boston, Massachusetts * Lewis, Missouri *

Lewis, Essex County, New York : ''There is another Town of Lewis in Lewis County, New York.'' Lewis is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,382 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Morgan Lewis, the governor of New York at the time ...

Lewis, Lewis County, New York : ''There is another Town of Lewis in Essex County, New York.'' Lewis is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 854 at the 2010 census. The town is named after its county, which is named after former governor, Mo ...

* Lewis, North Carolina *

Lewis, Vermont Lewis is a town in Essex County, Vermont, Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for landholders Nathan, Sevignior, and Timothy Lewis. Although incorporated by the state, the town was never formally organized, since it never g ...

Lewis, Wisconsin Lewis is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It bor ...

Ships

* USS ''Lewis'' (1861), a sailing ship * USS ''Lewis'' (DE-535), a destroyer escort in commission from 1944 to 1946

Science

Lewis structure Lewis structuresalso called Lewis dot formulas, Lewis dot structures, electron dot structures, or Lewis electron dot structures (LEDs)are diagrams that show the chemical bond, bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs of elec ...

, a diagram of a molecule that shows the bonding between the atoms *

Lewis acids and bases A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any s ...

Lewis antigen system The Lewis antigen system is a human blood group system. It is based upon two genes on chromosome 19: FUT3, or Lewis gene; and FUT2, or Secretor gene. Both genes are expressed in glandular epithelia. FUT2 has a dominant allele which codes for an ...

, a human blood group system *

Lewis number In fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, the Lewis number (denoted ) is a dimensionless number defined as the ratio of thermal diffusivity to mass diffusivity. It is used to characterize fluid flows where there is simultaneous heat and mass transfer. ...

, a dimensionless number in fluid dynamics and transport phenomena *

Lewis rat Laboratory rats or lab rats are strains of the rat subspecies '' Rattus norvegicus domestica'' (Domestic Norwegian rat) which are bred and kept for scientific research. While less commonly used for research than laboratory mice, rats have se ...

, an inbred strain of laboratory rat

Television

* ''Lewis'' (TV series), a British television detective series * Lewis (''The Simpsons''), a character in ''The Simpsons''

Other uses

Lewis (cat) Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut, who garnered mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006. At the time of his arrest Lewis was five years old, placing his birthdate between the years 2000 and 200 ...

, a cat that was placed under house arrest *

Lewis (lifting appliance) A lewis (sometimes called a lewisson) is one of a category of Lifting equipment, lifting devices used by stonemasons to lift large stones into place with a crane (machine), crane, Hoist (device), chain block, or winch. It is inserted into a s ...

Lewis (robot) Lewis (named after Meriwether Lewis) is an autonomous robot that performs the job of a wedding photographer: it attends social events, moves around, and takes digital photography, digital photographs of people. It is a research project of the Med ...

, a robotic wedding photographer *

Lewis (satellite) Lewis was an American satellite which was to have been operated by NASA as part of the Small Satellite Technology Initiative. It carried two experimental Earth imaging instruments, and an ultraviolet astronomy payload. Due to a design flaw i ...

, a failed NASA satellite mission *

HP Lewis The Saturn family of 4-bit ( datapath) microprocessors was developed by Hewlett-Packard in the 1980s first for the HP-71B handheld computer, released in 1984, and later for various HP calculators (starting with the HP-18C). It succeeded the ...

, a CPU in certain Hewlett-Packard programmable calculators *

Lewis's Lewis's is an online retailer and homeware brand. It was also a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010. The owners of Lewis's went into administration several times, including in 1991. The first store, which ope ...

, a chain of department stores in England and Scotland (1856-1990s), originating in Liverpool * Lewis & Co, a firm of organ builders in Brixton, London from 1860 to 1919 *

Lewis University Lewis University is a private Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. It enrolls around 6,600 students in more than 80 undergraduate programs, 35 graduate programs, and accelerated programs for working adults. It is al ...

, a private school in Romeoville, Illinois *

Lewis v. Harris ''Lewis v. Harris'', 188 N.J. 415; 908 A.2d 196 (N.J. 2006), is a New Jersey Supreme Court case that held that the state's marriage laws violated the rights of Homosexuality, same-sex couples to equal protection of the law under the New Jersey St ...

, a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage