Lau or LAU may refer to:
People
*
Lau (surname)
Lau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Andy Lau (born 1961), Hong Kong singer and actor
* Andrew Lau (born 1960), Hong Kong director and producer
* Anthony To-Ming Lau (born 1943), Hong Kong born Canadian mathematician
* C ...
*
Liu
/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text ...
(劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
*
Lau clan Lau (also spelled Lav) is one of the seven Mohyal Brahmin clans of Punjab.
Origin and history
Early history
In Mohyals' recorded history, however, there is no mention of the Lau clan until around 1000 CE. According to Mohyals' own historians and ...
, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
*
LAU (musician)
Laura Fares, known as LAU or Lau Fares (born February 14, 1978, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer from Argentina, and currently based in Barcelona (Spain), after 21 years in the United Kingdom. She is also the ...
: Laura Fares
Places
*
Lebanese American University
The Lebanese American University (LAU) ( ar, الجامعة اللبنانية الأميركية) is a secular and private American university located in Lebanon. It is chartered by the board of regents of the University of the State of New Y ...
, an America university in Lebanon
*
Lau, Estonia
Lau is a village in Kehtna Parish, Rapla County in northern-central Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from ...
, a village in Estonia
*
Lau, Gotland
Lau is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Lau District, established on 1January 2016. Originally an island, it is now part of the main G ...
, a locality on Gotland, Sweden
*
Lau, Nigeria
Lau is a Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Lau and the area is dominated by Hausa Fulani people. Lau Local government has a border with Ardo Kola, Jalingo, Yorro and Zing local governments of T ...
, a local government area
*
Lau (crater)
Lau Crater is an impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 74.4°S latitude and 107.8°W longitude. It is 104.9 km in diameter. It was named after Danish astronomer Hans E. Lau, and the name was approved in 1973 b ...
, a crater on Mars
*
Lau Islands
The Lau Islands aka little Tonga (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty ...
, Fiji
*
Lau Province
Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji. Its capital is at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba. The province forms part of the country's Eastern Division (which also includes the provinces of Kadavu and Lomaiviti), and ...
, Fiji
*
Laurel station (Mississippi)
Laurel station is an Amtrak station at 230 North Maple Street in the heart of downtown Laurel, Mississippi. Currently served by Amtrak's passenger train, the station was originally built in 1913 by the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, which ...
, a passenger railway station in Laurel, United States
* LAU, IATA code for
Manda Airport
Manda Airport , also called Lamu Airport, is an airport in Kenya.
Location
Manda Airport is located on Manda Island in the Lamu Archipelago of Lamu County on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, on the Kenya coast.
Its location is approxim ...
, a public airport on Manda Island, Kenya
Languages
*
Lau language
Lau (Law) is a Jukunoid language of Lau LGA, Taraba State, Nigeria. Lau speakers claim that their language is mutually intelligible with the Jukunoid language varieties spoken in Kunini, Bandawa, and Jeshi. They also live alongside the Centr ...
of Nigeria
*
Lauan language
Lauan is an East Fijian language spoken by about 16,000 people on a number of islands of eastern Fiji.
References
External links
* Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs ...
, also called Lau, spoken in Fiji, ISO 639-3: llx
*
Lau language (Malaita)
Lau, also known as Mala, is an Oceanic language spoken on northeast Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. In 1999, Lau had about 16,937 first-language speakers, with many second-language speakers through Malaitan communities in the Solomon Islands ...
, spoken in the Solomon Islands, ISO 639-3: llu
Other uses
*
Lau Chan
The following is a list of characters from the ''Virtua Fighter'' fighting game series released by Sega. Starting with ''Virtua Fighter'', this series has spanned five games (not including updates) and has been released on arcade systems as well ...
, fictional character in video game ''Virtua Fighter Series''
*
Lau (band)
Lau is a British folk band from both Scotland and England, formed in 2005. Named after an Orcadian word meaning "natural light", the band is composed of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion, piano, electronics) and Aidan O'Ro ...
, a British folk music group
*
Lambda Alpha Upsilon
Latino America Unida, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. ( or LAU, also known as Condors) is a Latino oriented Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity
A fraternity (from Latin ''frater'': "brother"; whence, " brotherhood") or fraternal ...
, a Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity
* Local administrative unit (see
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS (french: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard, adopted in 2003, ...
), a low level administrative division of a country, ranked below a province, region, or state
* Lẩu, Vietnamese
hot pot
Hot pot or hotpot (), also known as soup-food or steamboat, is a cooking method that originated in China. A heat source on the dining table keeps a pot of soup stock simmering, and a variety of Chinese foodstuffs and ingredients are served b ...
*
Lauinger Library
The Joseph Mark Lauinger Library is the main library of Georgetown University and the center of the seven-library Georgetown library system that includes 3.5 million volumes. It holds 1.7 million volumes on six floors and has accommodations for ...
, the main library at Georgetown University, which is commonly known as "Lau"
*
Leeds Arts University
Leeds Arts University is a specialist arts further and higher education institution, based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a main campus opposite the University of Leeds.
History
It was founded in 1846 as the Leeds Scho ...
*
Lau Taveuni Rotuma (Open Constituency, Fiji)
Lau Taveuni Rotuma Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 199 ...
, a former electoral division
* LAU, a United States military designator for aerial
rocket launchers
See also
*
Iau (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation, geo