Lucas or LUCAS may refer to:
People
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Lucas (surname) Lucas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Academics and science
* Alfred Lucas (chemist) (1867–1945), English analytical chemist, known for his part in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb
* Arthur Lucas (academic) (born 194 ...
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Lucas (given name)
Lucas is a multilingual masculine given name of Latin origin. It is derived from the Latin verb "lucere", meaning "to shine", from which the English name '' Luke'' comes from. Lucas is used a given name in languages such as English, Spanish, Fr ...
Arts and entertainment
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Luca Family Singers, or the Lucas, a 19th-century African-American singing group
* Lucas, a 1960s Swedish pop group formed by
Janne Lucas Persson
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''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities
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''Lucas'' (1986 film), an American romantic-comedy teen film
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''Lucas'' (2021 film), a Spanish thriller drama film
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''Lucas'' (novel) (2003), by Kevin Brooks
Organisations
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Lucas Industries
Lucas Industries plc, now known as Lucas Automotive, is one of the world’s oldest continuously trading automotive brands, tracing its origins to 1875 and the first patent issued to its founder, Joseph Lucas.
Based originally in Birmingham, t ...
, a former British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components
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Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC is an American film and television production company founded by filmmaker George Lucas in December 10, 1971 in San Rafael, California, and later moved to San Francisco in 2005. It is best known for creating and producing th ...
, an American film and television production company
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LucasVarity, a defunct British automotive parts manufacturer, successor to Lucas Industries
Places
Australia
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Lucas, Victoria
Lucas is a suburb of the City of Ballarat. It was created on 23 June 2011 from a former part of Cardigan. The population at the was 2,994.
History
Lucas was created on 23 June 2011 from a former part of Cardigan. It is named after Eleanor L ...
Mexico
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Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas (, "Luke the Evangelist, Saint Luke Cape (geography), Cape"), also known simply as Cabo, is a Resort town, resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican Political divisions of Mexico, state of Baja ...
, Baja California
United States
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Lucas, Illinois
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Lucas, Iowa
Lucas is a city in Lucas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 172 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company established a station at Lucas in 1866, named after Lucas County and Ro ...
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Lucas County, Iowa
Lucas County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 8,634. The county seat is Chariton, Iowa, Chariton.
The county was formed in 1846 and was n ...
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Lucas, Kansas
Lucas is a city in Russell County, Kansas, Russell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 332.
History
Lucas was established as the community of Blue Stem in 1877. It wa ...
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Lucas, Kentucky
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It ...
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Lucas, Michigan
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Lucas, Missouri
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Lucas, Ohio
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Lucas County, Ohio
Lucas County is a Counties of the United States, county located in the Northwest Ohio, northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is bordered to the east by Lake Erie, and to the southeast by the Maumee River, which runs to the lake. As o ...
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Lucas, South Dakota
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Gregory County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The community is located approximately eight miles west of Lake Francis Case between the north and south forks of Whetstone Creek. Gregory lies approx ...
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Lucas, Texas
Lucas is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 5,166, up from 2,890 at the 2000 census; in 2020, its population was 7,612.
Geography
Lucas is located in south central Collin County and is border ...
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Lucas, Wisconsin
Lucas is a town in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 658 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Hatchville is located partially in the town.
Geography
The town is rural, consisting of farms and forest. Acc ...
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Lucas, West Virginia
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The ...
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Lucas Township (disambiguation) Lucas Township may refer to one of the following townships in the United States:
* Lucas Township, Crittenden County, Arkansas
* Lucas Township, Effingham County, Illinois
* Lucas Township, Lyon County, Minnesota
See also
* Lucas (disambiguatio ...
Other uses
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Lucas number
The Lucas sequence is an integer sequence named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas (1842–1891), who studied both that sequence and the closely related Fibonacci sequence. Individual numbers in the Lucas sequence ar ...
, a series of integers similar to the Fibonacci number
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A. B. Lucas Secondary School
A. B. Lucas Secondary School is a secondary school located at the northern end of London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
The school was named after Alexander Burton Lucas, who was recognized for his contribution to education in London. In April ...
, London, Ontario, Canada
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Leeds University Centre for African Studies
Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Leeds that was established in 1964, and has members from a variety of faculties who share an interest in African Studies. The English, Geograph ...
, an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Leeds
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Lucas critique
The Lucas critique argues that it is naïve to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data. More formally, it states t ...
, in economics
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Laboratory Unit for Computer Assisted Surgery
Laboratory Unit for Computer Assisted Surgery is a system used for virtual surgical planning. Starting with 1998, LUCAS was developed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, with the support of the Carl Zeiss Company. The resulting surgical ...
, a system used for surgical planning, in computer assisted surgery
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Lucas Oil Stadium
Lucas Oil Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in downtown Indianapolis, downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It replaced the RCA Dome as the home field of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). It opened on August ...
, a venue for sporting events in the United States city of Indianapolis, Indiana
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LUCAS device, A Cardiopulmonary Assist Service used in Emergency Medicine
See also
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Luca (disambiguation)
Luca or LUCA may refer to:
People
* Luca (masculine given name), including a list of people
* Luca (feminine given name), including a list of people
* Luca (surname), including a list of people
Places
* The ancient name of Lucca, an Etruscan ...
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Lucas & Steve, a Dutch DJ duo
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Justice Lucas (disambiguation)
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Lukas, a form of the Latin name Lucas
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Łukasz
Łukasz or Lukasz () is a Polish masculine given name, derived from Greek Λουκᾶς, Lukas.
Derived family names are Łukaszewski, Łukaszewicz/ Łukasiewicz/ Lukashevich, Lukash (as transliterated from Ukrainian), Lukashenko (Ukrainia ...
, a Polish masculine given name
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Leuchars
Leuchars (pronounced or ; "rushes") is a town and parish near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland.
The civil parish has a population of 5,754 (in 2011) Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by Nati ...
, a town and parish in Scotland
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De Lucas, a surname
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Luke (disambiguation)
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