Luc or LUC may refer to:

Places

Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées Luc () is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of ...

, France, a commune *

Luc, Lozère Luc () is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France. The village of Luc is overlooked by the castle-ruin of Château de Luc. The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (GR 70), a popular long-distance path, runs past the chateau and throug ...

, France, a commune *

Le Luc Le Luc (; Provençal: ''Lo Luc''), also known as Le Luc-en-Provence (''Lo Luc de Provença''), is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 11,094. Le Luc i ...

, France, a commune *

Luč Luč ( hu, Lőcs), (german: Lutsch)is a settlement in the region of Baranja, Croatia. Administratively, it is located in the Petlovac municipality within the Osijek-Baranja County. Population is 435 people. Until the end of World War II, the m ...

, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement

People and fictional characters

Luc (given name) Luc is a French masculine given name and occasional a diminutive form of other names. Notable persons and characters with this name include: * Luc Abalo (born 1984), French handball player * Luc Arbogast (born 1975), French musician, singer, and so ...

Luc (surname) Luc is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Giraut del Luc ( 1190–1197), French troubadour * Jacques de Saint-Luc, (1616– 1710), Flemish lutenist and composer * Jean-André de Luc (1727–1817), Swiss geologist and meteorolog ...

Academia

Leiden University College The Hague Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is a small interdisciplinary Liberal Arts and Sciences honours college part of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. The institution's curriculums focus on tackling global c ...

, a liberal arts & sciences honours college in the Netherlands * Limburgs Universitair Centrum, now

University of Hasselt Hasselt University ( Dutch: ''Universiteit Hasselt or UHasselt'') is a public research university with campuses in Hasselt and Diepenbeek, Belgium. It has more than 6,700 students and 1,660 academic, administrative and technical staff (2022). Th ...

, Belgium *

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic Church, Catholic univers ...

Other uses

Land-use change Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), also referred to as Forestry and other land use (FOLU), is defined by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat as a " greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of g ...

* LUC, cryptosystem based on

Lucas sequence In mathematics, the Lucas sequences U_n(P,Q) and V_n(P, Q) are certain constant-recursive integer sequences that satisfy the recurrence relation : x_n = P \cdot x_ - Q \cdot x_ where P and Q are fixed integers. Any sequence satisfying this r ...