Lau or LAU may refer to:
People
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Lau (surname)
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Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
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Lau clan Lau (also spelled Lav) is one of the seven Mohyal Brahmin clans of Punjab.
Origin and history
Early history
LAU (Vasishtha)
Lau Mohyal belongs to Vasishtha gotra.
Vasishtha, a Manas Putra of Brahma, was thrice born. In the first birth, he was so ...
, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
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LAU (musician), Laura Fares
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Lau Lauritzen Jr., Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director
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Lau Lauritzen Sr., Danish film director, screenwriter and actor
Places
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Lebanese American University, a university in Lebanon
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Lau, Estonia, a village in Estonia
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Lau, Gotland, a locality on Gotland, Sweden
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Lau, Nigeria, a local government area
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Lau (crater), a crater on Mars
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Lau Islands, Fiji
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Lau Province, Fiji
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Laurel station (Mississippi), a passenger railway station in Laurel, United States
* LAU, IATA code for
Manda Airport, a public airport on Manda Island, Kenya
Languages
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Lau language of Nigeria
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Lauan language, also called Lau, spoken in Fiji, ISO 639-3: llx
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Lau language (Malaita)
Lau, also known as Mala, is an Oceanic language spoken on northeast Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. In 1999, Lau had about 16,937 first-language speakers, with many second-language speakers through Malaitan communities in the Solomon Islands ...
, spoken in the Solomon Islands, ISO 639-3: llu
Other uses
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Lau Chan, fictional character in video game ''Virtua Fighter Series''
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Lau (band), a British folk music group
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Lambda Alpha Upsilon, a Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity
* Local administrative unit (see
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS () is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes. The standard, adopted in 2003, is developed and regulated by the European ...
), a low level administrative division of a country, ranked below a province, region, or state
* Lẩu, Vietnamese
hot pot
Hot pot ( zh, c=, s=wikt:火锅, 火锅, t=wikt:火鍋, 火鍋, p=huǒguō, l=fire pot, first=t) or hotpot, also known as steamboat, is a dish (food), dish of soup/stock (food), stock kept simmering in a cooking pot, pot by a heat source on ...
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Lauinger Library, the main library at Georgetown University, which is commonly known as "Lau"
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Leeds Arts University
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Lau Taveuni Rotuma (Open Constituency, Fiji), a former electoral division
* LAU, a United States military designator for aerial
rocket launcher
A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.
History
The earliest rocket launchers documented in imperial China consisted of arrows modified by the attachment of a rocket motor to the shaft a few i ...
s
See also
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Iau (disambiguation)
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