Lua or LUA may refer to:

Science and technology

* Lua (programming language) * Latvia University of Agriculture * Last universal ancestor, in evolution

Ethnicity and language

* Lua people, of Laos * Lawa people, of Thailand sometimes referred to as Lua * Lua language (disambiguation), several languages (including Lua’) *

Luba-Kasai language Luba-Kasai, also known as Western Luba, ''Bena-Lulua, Cilubà/Tshilubà'', ''Luba-Lulua'' or ''Luva'', is a Bantu language ( Zone L) of Central Africa and a national language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside Lingala, Swahil ...

, ISO 639 code *

Lai (surname) Lai () is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin and Hakka dialects. The meaning of the character used in the Lai (賴) surname is "depend on; trust in; rely on". Conversely the words, 无赖 literally translate ...

(賴), Chinese, sometimes romanised as Lua

Places

* Tenzing-Hillary Airport (IATA code), in Lukla, Nepal * One of the Duff Islands

People

* Lua (goddess), a Roman goddess * Saint Lua (died c 609) * Lua Blanco (born 1987), Brazilian actress and singer * Lua Getsinger (1871–1916) * A member of Weki Meki band

Other uses

* Lua (martial art), of Hawaii * "Lua" (song), by Bright Eyes {{Disambiguation