Lucas (surname)

	Lucas (surname) Lucas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Lucas (born 1998), American football player Alfred Lucas (other), one of several people including: Alfred Lucas (chemist) (1867–1945), English analytical chemist, known for his part in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb Alfred Lucas (Indian Army officer) (1822–1896), English staff officer in the British Indian Army A. P. Lucas (1857–1923), English cricketer Allen T. Lucas (1917–1973), American lawyer and politician Anthony Francis Lucas (1855–1921), Croatian-born oil-field engineer Antoinette Lucas (born 1968), American field hockey player Arthur Lucas (1907-1962), American criminal, one of the last two people to be executed in Canada Arthur Lucas (academic) (born 1941), Australian academic who served as the 18th Principal of King's College London Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas (1853–1936), English-born Australian schoolmaster and scientist Baron Lucas, aristocratic family name - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Abraham Lucas Abraham "Abe" Lucas (born October 25, 1998) is an American football offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Washington State Cougars football, Washington State. Early life and high school Lucas grew up in Everett, Washington and attended Archbishop Murphy High School, where he played basketball and was an offensive and defensive lineman on the football team. Kyler Gordon from the Chicago Bears was also a high school teammate of Lucas. Lucas was rated a three-star recruit and committed to play college football at Washington State over offers from Oregon State and Wyoming. College career Lucas redshirted his true freshman season at Washington State. He was named the Cougars' starting right tackle going into his redshirt freshman season. Lucas started all 13 of Washington State's games and was named second-team All-Pac-12 Conference and a freshman All-American by ''USA Today''. He started all of Washington State' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Lucas (architect) Charles Lucas (8 April 1838 – 30 September 1905) was a 19th-century French architect and writer. Biography The son of architect Achille Lucas (1811–1889), Charles Lucas joined the école des beaux-arts de Paris in 1856 and studied with then later at the école pratique des hautes études. He created the lessons of art history at the école Boulle and also designed the plans for the école Estienne. Charles Lucas was a member of numerous learned societies including a corresponding member of the Société des Antiquaires de France The Société des Antiquaires de France (Society of Antiquaries of France) is a Parisian historical and archaeological society, founded in 1804 under the name of the Académie celtique (Celtic Academy). It is now based at the Louvre, in the pavil ... Some publications * 1867''L'Espagne à l'Exposition universelle de 1867, aperçu des nombreux et intéressants envois de la Direction générale des travaux publics de Madrid''* 1868''Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Édouard Lucas __NOTOC__ François Édouard Anatole Lucas (; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Biography Lucas was born in Amiens and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. He worked in the Paris Observatory and later became a professor of mathematics at the Lycée Saint Louis and the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. Lucas served as an artillery officer in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. In 1875, Lucas posed a challenge to prove that the only solution of the Diophantine equation: :\sum_^ n^2 = M^2\; with ''N'' > 1 is when ''N'' = 24 and ''M'' = 70. This is known as the cannonball problem, since it can be visualized as the problem of taking a square arrangement of cannonballs on the ground and building a square pyramid out of them. It was not until 1918 that a proof (using elliptic functions) was found for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dick Lucas (singer) Dick Lucas (born 1961) is a British vocalist and lyricist of several punk rock bands. He is best known for being a member the British anarcho-punk band Subhumans, and the ska-punk band Citizen Fish that he co-founded in 1990. Biography Lucas started his career as a vocalist in The Mental from March 1979 to August 1980. He then joined the Subhumans in September 1980. With the breakup of Subhumans in the mid 1980s came another band, Culture Shock, from 1986, followed by a short silence from Lucas, after which he co-founded Citizen Fish. In 1995, Lucas's abstract novel Write The Way Up was published (an audio version of which was released in 2012 by Bluurg Records). During early 2010, he contributed a spoken piece about the 7 July 2005 London bombings The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists in London that targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dick Lucas (minister) Richard Charles Lucas (born 10 September 1925) is an Anglican evangelical cleric, best known for his long ministry at St Helen's Bishopsgate in London, England, and for his work as founder of the Proclamation Trust and the Cornhill Training Course. Early life Lucas was born on 10 September 1925 in Lewes, Sussex. He attended Radley College. He was converted to evangelical Christianity in 1941 under the camp ministry of E. J. H. Nash. Lucas began university studies at Oxford, but left to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II. After the war, he continued his undergraduate studies at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1949, MA 1957). Ordained ministry Lucas completed ordination training at Ridley Hall, and was ordained in the Church of England as a Deacon in 1951, and then as a Priest in 1952. Lucas' first curacy was served as at St Nicholas' Church, Sevenoaks from 1951 to 1955, before he joined the staff of the Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1955 until 1961. Lucas became Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Steven Blum Steven Jay Blum (; born April 29, 1960) is an American voice actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, his most well-known roles include Spike Spiegel from the anime series '' Cowboy Bebop'', Garazeb Orrelios from the animated series ''Star Wars Rebels'', Wolverine from various Marvel projects, TOM (Toonami Operations Module) as the second and current host of Toonami and the current host of Toonami Latin America (2000–2008; 2012–present), Terence and Bomb on Angry Birds Live Action and Sub-Zero from the video game franchise ''Mortal Kombat''. He is sometimes credited as David Lucas, Richard Cardona, Roger Canfield, Tom Baron and Daniel Andrews in various anime and other live-action appearances. Early life Steven Jay Blum was born on April 29, 1960 to a Jewish family in Santa Monica, California. Career Blum began his career in 1992. His credits include the voice of Spike Spiegel in '' Cowboy Bebop'', Zeb Orrelios in ''Star Wars Rebels'', Mugen in ''Samurai Champloo' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	David Lucas (composer) David Lucas (born David Helfman April 21, 1937) is an American rock and roll composer, singer, and music producer. He has written thousands of commercial jingles, such as AT&T's " Reach Out and Touch Someone." In 1981, he received a Clio Award for composing the music to Pepsi's " Catch That Pepsi Spirit." As a record producer, he worked with many new artists such as Blue Öyster Cult. On the 1976 Blue Öyster Cult song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" which he co-produced, Lucas sang backup vocals and came up with the idea for using a cowbell, parodied by Christopher Walken in the " More cowbell" skit on ''Saturday Night Live''. In June 2011, Lucas was inducted into Buffalo's Music Hall of Fame. Biography Early years (1940s–1960s) Lucas was born David Helfman on April 21, 1937, in Buffalo, New York. By the age of four, he was singing with his parents in the Buffalo area, both at venues and on local radio. He briefly attended Bennett High School in Buffalo, where he sang in the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Craig Lucas Craig Lucas (born April 30, 1951) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. Biography Born on April 30, 1951, he was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Georgia. Lucas was adopted when he was eight months old by a conservative Pennsylvania couple. His father was an FBI agent; his mother was a painter. She was born Jewish but suppressed the identity, which Lucas relates in his storytelling. He graduated in 1969 from Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucas became interested in the political left and discovered an attraction toward men. He is openly gay, and recalls that his coming out made it possible for him to develop as a playwright and as a person. In 1973, Lucas left Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and creative writing. His mentor Anne Sexton urged him to move to New York City to become a playwright. He worked in many day jobs while performing in Broadway musicals i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Colin Lucas Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas, (born 25 August 1940) is a British historian and university administrator. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. In May 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Board of the British Library for a four-year term ending 2010. Early life and education Lucas was born in Egypt, the son of Frank Renshaw Lucas and Janine Charpentier. He was educated at Sherborne and at Lincoln College, Oxford. Academic career After graduation, he took a post as a lecturer at the University of Sheffield (1965–69), and then later at the University of Manchester (1970–73). He became a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Balliol College in 1973. In 1990, he took a post at the University of Chicago as Professor of History, where he became chair of the History Department in 1992 and Dean of the Division of Social Sciences in 1993. He returned to Oxford in 1994 to become Master of Balliol College (1994–2000). Lucas was the first Oxford Vice-Chancel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Clarence Lucas Clarence Lucas (October 19, 1866 – July 2, 1947), was a Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor. Lucas was born at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and was a student of Romain-Octave Pelletier I. He taught at the Toronto College of Music, taught in Utica, New York, and was the musical director at Wesleyan Ladies College in Hamilton, Ontario. In London, he tutored pupils in composition, proofread music for Chappel publishing, and was a correspondent and then editor for the magazine ''Musical Courier'' which he later held in New York and Paris. In Sèvres, just outside Paris, Lucas freelanced as a music transcriber, arranger, lyricist, and translator. He also contributed to ''Etude'', a musical periodical. Lucas conducted works by George Frideric Handel, Michael Costa, Edvard Grieg, George M. Cohan, and others. He toured the British Isles as a conductor for the Irish musical ''Peggy Machree'', and the United States for Grieg's ''Peer Gynt''. Lucas' first wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chase Lucas Chase Lucas (born March 4, 1997) is an American football cornerback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arizona State. Early career Lucas played at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona. He started at running back as a sophomore. As a junior, Lucas helped Chandler win its first state championship since 1949. The team featured future NFL players N'Keal Harry and Bryce Perkins. Lucas contributed 113 rushing yards and 37 receiving yards in the 28-7 win over Chandler Hamilton. He was selected to play in the U.S. Army All American Bowl. College career During Lucas' first year as a true freshman, ASU coach Todd Graham considered playing Lucas for his talent, but choose not to so that Lucas could learn. After taking a redshirt year, Lucas was able to play as a redshirt freshman and was named to the ''USA Today'' All-Freshman team and the All-Pac-12 Second Team. He was the only freshman to earn all-conference honors in Pac-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charlotte Lucas Charlotte Lucas (born 29 May 1976) is an English actress, painter and therapist. Early life Born into an acting family, Lucas is the granddaughter of Linden Travers, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Lady Vanishes'' and Guy Leon. Charlotte is the great niece of Bill Travers who appeared in ''Born Free''. Charlotte's mother is Susan Travers who starred in ''Peeping Tom''. Lucas is the second cousin of actresses Penelope Wilton, Bill Travers' son Will and Richard Morant. Her first cousin is BBC newsreader, Alice Bhandhukravi. Career She is best known for her role as Selena Geeson in '' Bad Girls''. She also starred in the 2003 film ''Oh Marbella!'', as well as a number of other TV roles including ''EastEnders'', ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Doctors'', ''Not Going Out'', and an episode of '' Adventure Inc.'' when filming transferred to the UK for four episodes. Lucas played the role of Mrs Bassat in BBC One's 2014 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn. Lucas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]