Lucas or LUCAS may refer to:
People
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Lucas (surname) Lucas is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Abraham Lucas (born 1998), American football player
* Alfred Lucas (disambiguation), one of several people including:
** Alfred Lucas (chemist) (1867–1945), English analytical chemist, ...
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Lucas (given name)
Lucas is a Latin male given name (from the verb "lucere" - "to shine"), from which the English name '' Luke'' comes.
Persons with the name
In arts and entertainment
* Lucas Bryant (born 1978), Canadian-American actor
* Lucas Cranach the Elder ...
Arts and entertainment
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Luca Family Singers, also known as "lucas ligner en torsk"
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''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities
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''Lucas'' (film) (1986) an American rom-com
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''Lucas'' (novel) (2003), by Kevin Brooks
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Lucas (''Mother 3''), a playable character in ''Mother 3'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series since ''Brawl''
Organisations
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Lucas Industries, 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 and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is a business segment of The Walt Disney Company. The studio is best known for creating and producing the ''Star Wars'' and ' ...
, an American film and television production company
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LucasVarity
LucasVarity plc was a UK automotive parts manufacturer, created by a merger of the British Lucas Industries plc, and the North American Varity Corporation in August 1996.
History
LucasVarity traces its history back to the historic Canadian far ...
, a defunct British automotive parts manufacturer, successor to Lucas Industries
Mathematics
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Lucas number, a series of integers similar to the
Fibonacci number
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a integer sequence, sequence, the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start ...
Places
Australia
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Lucas, Victoria
Canada
Mexico
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Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas (, " Saint Luke Cape"), or simply just Cabo, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As at the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694 inhabit ...
, Baja California
United States
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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
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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 located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,634. The county seat is Chariton.
The county was formed in 1846 and was named for Robert Lucas, a Governor of the Territory.
Geography
A ...
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Lucas, Kansas
Lucas is a city in Russell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 332.
History
Lucas was established as the community of Blue Stem in 1877. It was renamed Lucas in 1887 after Lucas Place in St. ...
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Lucas, Kentucky
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Ill ...
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Lucas, Missouri
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Lucas, Ohio
Lucas is a village in southeastern Richland County, Ohio, United States. Lucas is part of the Mansfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
David Tucker, a New Hampshire resident, moved to Richland County in 1819, where he set in a prop ...
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Lucas County, Ohio
Lucas County is a county located in the 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 of the 2020 census, the population was 431,279 ...
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Lucas, South Dakota Lucas is an unincorporated community in Gregory County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also pa ...
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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 at . It is borde ...
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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. Accor ...
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Lucas, West Virginia
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographer ...
Other uses
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A.B. Lucas Secondary School, 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, Geography ...
, an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Leeds
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Lucas critique
The Lucas critique, named for American economist Robert Lucas's work on macroeconomic policymaking, argues that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historica ...
, 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, Indiana, United States. It replaced the RCA Dome as the home field of the National Football League (NFL)'s Indianapolis Colts and opened on August 16, 2008. The stadium was ...
, 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)
The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent population from which all organisms now living on Earth share common descent—the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. This includes all cellular organisms; th ...
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Lucas & Steve, a Dutch DJ duo
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Luke (name)
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Lukas
Lukas is a form of the Latin name Lucas. Popularity
In 2013 it was the ninth most popular name for boys in Australia.
Meaning and different spellings
* Amharic - Luqas (ሉቃስ)
* Arabic - Luqa (لوقا) / Luqas (لوكاس)
* Armenian - Ղ ...
, 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 and Belarusian), Lukashenk ...
, a Polish masculine given name
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Leuchars
Leuchars (pronounced or ; gd, Luachar "rushes") is a small 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 Populat ...
, a town and parish in Scotland
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De Lucas, a surname
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Justice Lucas (disambiguation) Justice Lucas may refer to:
* Daniel B. Lucas (1836–1909), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
*Malcolm Lucas
Malcolm Millar Lucas (April 19, 1927 – September 28, 2016) was an American jurist and attorney who s ...
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