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Persons with the name

In arts and entertainment

* Lucas Bryant (born 1978), Canadian-American actor *

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is know ...

(1472–1553), German painter *

Lucas Cranach the Younger Lucas Cranach the Younger (german: Lucas Cranach der Jüngere ; October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach. Life and career Lucas Cranach ...

(1515–1586), German Renaissance painter *

Lucas Cruikshank Lucas Alan Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993) is an American YouTuber and actor who created the character Fred Figglehorn and the associated ''Fred'' series for his channel on the video-hosting website YouTube in late 2006. These videos are cent ...

(born 1993), American internet celebrity *

Lucas Grabeel Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( ; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in the ''High School Musical'' film series (2006–2008). His other film appearances include ''Halloweent ...

(born 1984), American actor *

Lucas Hedges Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. A son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's com ...

(born 1996), American actor * Lucas Jade Zumann (born 2000), American actor * Lucas Secon (born 1970), Danish-American rapper *

Lucas Till Lucas Daniel Till (born August 10, 1990) is an American actor. In a career spanning two decades, he has appeared in multiple film and television projects spanning a variety of genres. He is a five-time Teen Choice Award nominee. His most notab ...

(born 1990), American actor *

Lucas Wong Wong Yuk-hei ( zh, t=黃旭熙; born 25 January 1999), better known mononymously as Lucas (), is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and model based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT, its Chinese sub-unit WayV and rotat ...

(born 1999), Hong Kong rapper, singer and model

In politics, government, and religion

Lucas, Archbishop of Esztergom Lucas ( hu, Lukács; 1120 – 1181), also known as Luke, was a Hungarian prelate and diplomat in the 12th century. He was Bishop of Eger between 1156 and 1158, and Archbishop of Esztergom from 1158 until his death in 1181. Lucas is believed ...

(c. 1120–1181), Hungarian prelate and diplomat * Lucas Atkinson (born 1981), American politician *

Lucas Bersamin Lucas Purugganan Bersamin (born October 18, 1949) is a Filipino lawyer and jurist who currently serves as the Executive Secretary of the Philippines. Bersamin previously served on the Supreme Court of the Philippines for 10 years, first as an ...

(born 1949), Filipino judge * Lucas Bolsius (born 1958), Dutch historian and politician * Lucas Hartong (born 1963), Dutch politician *

Lucas Papademos Lucas Demetrios Papademos ( el, Λουκάς Παπαδήμος; born 11 October 1947) is a Greek economist and academic who served as 12th Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake ...

(born 1947), Greek bank official and prime minister *

Lucas Samalenge Lucas Samalenge (2 October 1928 – 19 November 1961) was a Congolese and Katangese politician who was Katanga's Secretary of State of Information. Early life and career Samalenge was born on 2 October 1928. He became a nationally elected Me ...

(1928–1961), Congolese and Katangese politician

In sport

In association football

Lucas Arzán Lucas Arzán (born July 25, 1999) is a Puerto Rican football player who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and ...

(born 1999), Puerto Rican football player *

Lucas Biglia Lucas Rodrigo Biglia (; born 30 January 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir. Formerly of Argentinos Juniors and Independiente, he spent seven seasons with ...

(born 1986), Argentine currently playing for Milan *

Lucas Cavallini Lucas Daniel Cavallini (born December 28, 1992) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Liga MX club Tijuana and the Canada national team. Early life Cavallini was born in Canada to an Argentinian father and a C ...

(born 1992), Canadian currently playing for Vancouver Whitecaps *

Lucas Hernandez Lucas François Bernard Hernandez (; born 14 February 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left back or centre back for club Bayern Munich and the France national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, ...

(born 1996), French currently playing for Bayern Munich *

Lucas Leiva Lucas Pezzini Leiva (born 9 January 1987), known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio. Lucas began his career as a box-to-box midfielder at Grêmio where he won the ...

(born 1987), Brazilian currently playing for Lazio *

Lucas Licht Lucas Matías Licht (born 6 April 1981) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Club Atlético Villa San Carlos mainly as a left-back but also as a left winger. Club career Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Licht grew up in the youth acad ...

(born 1981), Argentine-Israeli currently playing for Gimnasia La Plata *

Lucas Lobos Lucas Armando Lobos (born August 3, 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is a Mexican naturalized citizen. Lobos is a two-time winner of the Liga MX Balón de Oro for Best Player and f ...

(born 1981), Argentine, played for Tigres UANL *

Lucas Moura Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva (born 13 August 1992), known as Lucas Moura (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger and forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. Moura started his professional career at São P ...

(born 1992), Brazilian currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur *

Lucas Neill Lucas Edward Neill (born 9 March 1978) is an Australian former soccer player. Neill played as a defender, often playing as a centre back as well as a full-back. Neill spent almost 15 years of his career playing in England. He represented Austr ...

(born 1978), Australian, played for Galatasaray and Blackburn Rovers * Lucas Paquetá (born 1997), Brazilian currently playing for West Ham United *

Lucas Pérez Lucas Pérez Martínez (, born 10 September 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primera Federación club Deportivo La Coruña. After spending the first years of his career in the lower leagues, only appeari ...

(born 1988), Spanish currently playing for Alavés *

Lucas Piazon Lucas Domingues Piazon (born 20 January 1994) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club S.C. Braga. He plays as a second striker or a winger, as an attacking midfielder. He spent a decade at Chelsea, though he on ...

(born 1994), Brazilian currently playing for Rio Ave *

Lucas Radebe Lucas Valeriu Ntuba Radebe OIS (born 12 April 1969) is a South African former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He began playing in South Africa with Kaizer Chiefs, before transferring to Leeds United, where he played 256 ...

(born 1969), South African, played for Leeds United and Kaizer Chiefs * Lucas Rios Marques (born 1988), Brazilian currently playing for Figueirense * Lucas Rougeaux (born 1994), French currently playing for OGC Nice * Lucas Salinas (born 1995), Brazilian football player *

Lucas Severino Lucas Severino (born 3 January 1979), commonly known as Lucas, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Brazil national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. Career Rennes Lucas Severin ...

(born 1979), Brazilian, played for FC Tokyo * Lucas Silva, several people * Lucas Torreira (born 1996), Uruguayan currently playing for Arsenal * Lucas Torró (born 1994), Spanish currently playing for Eintracht Frankfurt * Lucas Vázquez (born 1991), Spanish currently playing for Real Madrid *

Lucas Zelarayán Lucas Manuel Zelarayán ( hy, Լուկաս Մանուել Զելարայան; born 20 June 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew. Born in Argentina, he represents the ...

(born 1992), Argentine currently playing for Columbus Crew * Lucas Zen (born 1991), Brazilian currently playing for Botafogo * Jefferson Lucas Azevedo dos Santos (born 1984), Brazilian football player

In basketball

* Lucas Dias (born 1995), Brazilian player *

Lucas Mariano Lucas Fernandes Mariano (born 24 September 1993) is a Brazilian basketball player who plays for Franca of the NBB. Youth career Born in Planaltina, Lucas moved with his family to Franca when he was just five years old. Encouraged by his mother ...

(born 1993), Brazilian player * Lucas Mondelo (born 1967), Spanish coach *

Lucas Nogueira Lucas Riva Amarante "Bebê" Nogueira (born July 26, 1992) is a Brazilian professional basketball player who plays for the Guelph Nighthawks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. He was selected with the 16th overall pick in the 2013 NBA dra ...

(born 1992), Brazilian player *

Lucas Tohătan Lucas Tohătan (born 15 March 1999) is a Romanian professional basketball player for CSO Voluntari of the Liga Națională in Romania. National team Tohătan has been a member of the Romanian national basketball team The Romania men's nation ...

(born 1999), Romanian player

In other sports

Lucas Glover Lucas Hendley Glover (born November 12, 1979) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open. Early years and amateur career Glover was born in Greenville, South Carolina, ...

(born 1979), American professional golfer *

Lucas González Amorosino Lucas González Amorosino (born 2 November 1985) is an Argentine rugby union player who plays fullback or wing. He was part of the Argentina sevens team before joining Leicester in 2009 following his full international début against that su ...

(born 1985), Argentine rugby player * Lucas di Grassi (born 1984), Brazilian racing car driver *

Lucas Martins Lucas Martins (born 11 November 1988) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division of Brave Combat Federation, where he is a former interim lightweight champion. A professional mixed martial artist since 2011, Ma ...

(born 1988), Brazilian mixed martial artist *

Lucas Matthysse Lucas Martín Matthysse (; born 27 September 1982) is an Argentine former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2018. He held the WBA (Regular) welterweight title in 2018 and the WBC interim super lightweight title from 2012 to 2013. Ma ...

(born 1982), Argentine boxer *

Lucas Miedler Lucas Miedler (; born 21 June 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of World No. 201 achieved on 15 October 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 53 achieved 7 November 2022. He has won two doubles titles on ...

(born 1996), Austrian tennis player *

Lucas Niang Lucas Niang (born August 18, 1998) is an American football offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas Christian University (TCU) and was drafted by the Chiefs in the th ...

(born 1998), American football player *

Lucas Patrick Lucas Carter Patrick (born July 30, 1993) is an American football center for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke. Early years Patrick played high school football at Brentwood High School ...

(born 1993), American football player * Lucas Raymond (born 2002), Swedish ice hockey player *

Lucas Saatkamp Lucas Saatkamp (born 6 March 1986) is a Brazilian volleyball player, a member of Brazil men's national volleyball team and Brazilian club SESI São Paulo, winning a gold medal with Brazil at the 2010 World Championships, a participant and silv ...

(born 1986), Brazilian volleyball player; generally known as "Lucas" or "Lucão" * Lucas Vita (born 1985), Brazilian water polo player

Fictional characters with the name

* Lucas (''Mother 3''), main character of the 2006 video game ''Mother 3'' * Lucas (''Pokémon''), male protagonist of the games ''Pokémon Diamond'' and ''Pearl'' * Lucas Fitzgerald, character in the Network Ten soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Lucas Goodwin, character in Netflix series ''House of Cards'' *

Lucas Gottesman ''Pretty Little Liars'' is an American teen drama television series created by I. Marlene King for Freeform. It is based on Sara Shepard's novel series of the same name. Some of the characters appeared in the spin-off shows '' Ravenswood'', ...

, a character in ''Pretty Little Liars'' *

Lucas Hay The following is a list of characters that first appeared on the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' in 2009, by first appearance. Hayley Ramsey Natty Natty, played by former ''Emmerdale'' actor Danny Tennant, made his first on-screen appea ...

, character in Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Lucas Hellinger, character in the television series ''FlashForward'' *

Lucas Holden Lucas Holden is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Rhys Wakefield. The character made his first screen appearance on 5 August 2005. Lucas was the youngest member of Holden family. Wakefiel ...

, character in the soap opera ''Home and Away'' * Lucas Jackson, name of Paul Newman's character in ''Cool Hand Luke'' *

Lucas Johnson Lucas Johnson is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Don Gilet. He made his first on-screen appearance on 3 April 2008. Lucas is introduced as a reformed drug addict and criminal-turned-preacher who appears a ...

, character in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Lucas Kane, main character in the ''Fahrenheit'' video game * Lucas Kendell, a character from the television series ''

Power Rangers Time Force ''Power Rangers Time Force'' is a television series and the ninth season of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, based on the 24th Super Sentai series ''Mirai Sentai Timeranger'', running for 40 half-hour episodes from February to November 2001. I ...

''. * Lucas Lee, teenage character in ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' *Lucas McCain, name of character played by Chuck Connors in ''The Rifleman'' TV series *

Lucas North Lucas North, formerly known as John Bateman, is a fictional character from the BBC espionage television series '' Spooks'' (known in the United States as "MI5"), which follows the exploits of Section D, a counter-terrorism division of MI5. Nort ...

, one of the main characters of the television series ''Spooks'' *

Lucas Roberts Lucas Horton is a fictional character on the American daytime soap opera '' Days of Our Lives'', portrayed by Bryan Dattilo. Introduced in 1993 as Lucas Roberts, the military cadet son of businesswoman Kate Roberts, he later discovers he is ...

, character on the NBC soap opera ''Days of our Lives'' *

Lucas Scott Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character and the main protagonist from The WB /CW television series ''One Tree Hill'' created by Mark Schwahn and portrayed by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is a talented basketball player and writer. He is rival ...

, teen character on ''One Tree Hill'' *

Lucas Sinclair '' Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror television series created for Netflix by the Duffer Brothers, set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. The first season, set in November 1983, focuses on the inves ...

is a main character on "Stranger Things" * Lucas Trent,

Midnighter Midnighter is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books first published by WildStorm and later DC Comics once it absorbed the former. The character was created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Hitch. The character made hi ...

's secret identity * Lucas Valieri, a character in ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' *

Lucas Wolenczak This is the complete list of the characters of ''seaQuest DSV'', renamed ''seaQuest 2032'' during its third and final season. The series went through significant cast changes after every season it was on the air. Table of main cast members F ...

, teenage character on ''SeaQuest DSV'' * Lucas, character from

Minecraft Story Mode ''Minecraft: Story Mode'' is an episodic point-and-click video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on Mojang Studios' sandbox video game ''Minecraft''. The first five episodes were released between October 2015 through Ma ...

* Lucas, a character from the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence and its sequel A Plague Tale: Requiem