Lucas or LUCAS may refer to:

People

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, k ...

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 (1 ...

Arts and entertainment

Luca Family Singers The Luca Family Singers were an American singing group, originally from New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven Co ...

, also known as "lucas ligner en torsk" * ''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities * ''Lucas'' (film) (1986) an American rom-com * ''Lucas'' (novel) (2003), by Kevin Brooks * Lucas (''Mother 3''), a playable character in ''Mother 3'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series since ''Brawl''

Organisations

Lucas Industries Lucas Industries plc was a Birmingham-based British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components. Once prominent, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was formerly a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In August 199 ...

, a former British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components *

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 * LucasVarity, a defunct British automotive parts manufacturer, successor to Lucas Industries

Mathematics

Lucas number The Lucas numbers or Lucas series are an integer sequence named after the mathematician François Édouard Anatole Lucas (1842–1891), who studied both that sequence and the closely related Fibonacci numbers. Lucas numbers and Fibonacci nu ...

, a series of integers similar to the

Fibonacci number In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted , form a 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 the sequence from ...

Places

Australia

Lucas, Victoria Lucas is a new suburb created on 23 June 2011. It is located in the City of Ballarat The City of Ballarat is a local government area in the west of the state of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of ...

Canada

Mexico

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 inhabitan ...

, Baja California

United States

* Lucas Township (disambiguation) *

Lucas, Illinois Lucas is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois, Logan County, Illinois, United States. Lucas is located along U.S. Route 136 west of McLean, Illinois, McLean. References

Unincorporated communities in Logan County, Illin ...

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 Rob ...

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 Acc ...

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. Lo ...

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 ...

Lucas, Missouri Lucas is an unincorporated community in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 approximatel ...

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 bord ...

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 ...

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 Geographers ...

Other uses

A.B. Lucas Secondary School A.B. Lucas Secondary School is a secondary school located at the northern end of London, Ontario, Canada. The school was named after A.B. Lucas, who was recognized for his contribution to education in London. In April 1962, Hugh Murray became the ...

, London, Ontario, Canada *

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 *

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 historic ...

, in economics *

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 *

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 *

LUCAS device The Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System (LUCAS) device provides mechanical chest compressions to patients in cardiac arrest. It is mostly used in emergency medicine as an alternative to manual CPR because it provides consistent compressi ...

, A Cardiopulmonary Assist Service used in Emergency Medicine