Luc or LUC may refer to:

Places

Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées Luc () is a Communes of France, commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées Departments of France, department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department References

Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées {{HautesPy ...

, 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 through ...

, 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 is ...

, 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 maj ...

, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement

People and fictional characters

Luc (given name) Luc is a French masculine given name and occasional a Hypocorism, 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, si ...

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 meteorologist ...

Academia

* Leiden University College The Hague, 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). The ...

, Belgium *

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Cathol ...

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 gree ...

* 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 recu ...