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Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP), Indianapolis, Indiana: NHRA-owned multipurpose track opened 1960, home of the NHRA U.S. Nationals since 1961, with a drag strip, 0.625/0.686-mile oval, and NASCAR Truck and ARCA races.
Lucas Oil Stadium
Lucas Oil Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts since 2008; it hosted Super Bowl XLVI in 2012.
Lucas Paquetá
Lucas Paquetá, Brazilian left-footed attacking midfielder from Rio de Janeiro; Flamengo, AC Milan, Lyon, West Ham; Copa América 2019, Conference League 2023, cleared of FA spot-fixing charges in 2025, record €42M return to Flamengo in 2026.
Lucas Pelkmans
Lucas Pelkmans (born 1975) is a Dutch molecular cell biologist, a full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on endocytosis and cell-to-cell variability.
Lucas Pérez
Lucas Pérez (Lucas Pérez Martínez, born 1988, A Coruña), Spanish forward; Deportivo legend (59 goals, three spells), Arsenal €20m 2016 signing, later West Ham, Alavés, Cádiz, PSV; Spain youth international, no senior caps.
Lucas Philippe
Lucas Philippe, French police officer and contrôleur général, is the 31st President of INTERPOL, elected 27 November 2025 in Marrakech for a term until 2029, succeeding Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi.
Lucas Piazon
Lucas Domingues Piazon, Brazilian attacking midfielder (born 1994, São Paulo), signed by Chelsea from São Paulo in 2011 for a disputed fee, made 3 senior appearances, spent 7 loan spells (Vitesse, Fulham, Frankfurt, Málaga, Reading, Chievo, Rio Ave), then Braga, Botafogo, AVS and Wieczysta Kraków; never capped by Brazil at senior level.
Lucas Pope
Lucas Pope, American indie developer in Saitama, Japan, creator of Papers, Please (2013) and Return of the Obra Dinn (2018); ex-Naughty Dog tools programmer; two IGF grand prizes; later Mars After Midnight.
Lucas Pouille
Lucas Pouille, French tennis player (born 1994, Grande-Synthe), former world No. 10, five ATP titles, 2019 Australian Open semifinalist, clinched France's 2017 Davis Cup; career derailed by elbow injury and Achilles rupture.
Lucas R. Massoth
Lucas R. Massoth is an American pathologist trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for New England Journal of Medicine case reports and genomic studies of rare histiocytic tumors.
Lucas Radebe
Lucas Radebe, South African centre-back born 1969 in Soweto, played for Kaizer Chiefs and Leeds United (1994-2005, 262 club appearances), captained both club and Bafana Bafana, won the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations, and received the FIFA Fair Play Award in 2000.
Lucas Rey
Lucas Rey (Lucas Martín Rey), born 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentine field hockey midfielder; three Olympics (2004, 2012, 2016), gold at Rio 2016 with Los Leones; retired 2017 after 220 caps; Argentina men's head coach since August 2024.
Lucas Rossi
Lucas Rafael Rossi (born 1985, Olivos, Argentina) is a field hockey midfielder for Los Leones and Banco Provincia; three Olympics (2012, 2016, 2020), gold at Rio 2016, three Pan American Games medals, about 213 caps.
Lucas Sanabria (Uruguayan footballer)
Lucas Sanabria (Lucas Agustín Sanabria Magolé), Uruguayan midfielder born 2003 in Florida, Uruguay; brother of Juan Manuel Sanabria. Debuted for Nacional in 2024, transferred to LA Galaxy in February 2025 for US$5 million.
Lucas Scott
Lucas Eugene Scott is the fictional protagonist of One Tree Hill's first six seasons, played by Chad Michael Murray: Dan Scott's unacknowledged son, Nathan's half-brother, a novelist-basketball player with a heart condition who marries Peyton Sawyer.
Lucas sequence
A Lucas sequence is one of a pair of integer sequences defined by a recurrence with parameters P and Q, generalizing Fibonacci, Pell, and Mersenne numbers.
Lucas Silva (footballer, born 1993)
Lucas Silva, Brazilian central midfielder born 1993, Cruzeiro and Real Madrid player; 2014 Serie A best midfielder, €13m 2015 Madrid transfer, brief Marseille loan, later Grêmio and Cruzeiro return.
Lucas Sin
Lucas Sin is a chef and restaurateur who cofounded Junzi Kitchen and Nice Day Chinese. A Yale graduate, he has received multiple accolades, including a James Beard Media Award.
Lucas Sithole
Lucas Sithole (1931–1994) was a South African sculptor best known for carving figures and animals in indigenous woods; he won the Venice Biennale sculpture prize in 1968.
Lucas Swisher
Lucas Swisher is an American venture capital investor who serves as general partner and co-head of growth investing at Coatue Management, overseeing positions in OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Databricks.
Lucas the Spider
Lucas the Spider is a CGI-animated character and franchise about a small, fuzzy jumping spider with a child's voice, created by animator Joshua Slice on YouTube in 2017.
Lucas Till
Lucas Till (born 1990, Fort Hood, Texas) is an American actor known as Angus MacGyver in CBS's MacGyver (2016–2021), Havok in the X-Men prequels, and Travis Brody in Hannah Montana: The Movie; recently Garret Van Ness in Netflix's The Abandons.
Lucas Torreira
Lucas Torreira (Lucas Sebastián Torreira Di Pascua, born 1996, Fray Bentos) is a Uruguayan defensive midfielder at Galatasaray since 2022, formerly Sampdoria, Arsenal (89 apps), Atlético Madrid and Fiorentina loans; 43 Uruguay caps, 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Lucas Vázquez
Lucas Vázquez is a Spanish footballer who plays as a right-back for Bayer 04 Leverkusen after winning 23 trophies, including five Champions Leagues, with Real Madrid.
Lucas Vennegoor of Hesselink
Lucas Vennegoor of Hesselink (born 2006, Oldenzaal) is a Dutch centre-forward for FC Twente, son of Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink; signed 2024, contract to 2028, Netherlands U19 international.
Lucas Vila
Lucas Martín Vila ("El Colo"), born 1986 in Buenos Aires, Argentine field hockey forward; 274 caps, 97 goals for Los Leones; 2016 Rio Olympic gold, 2014 World Cup bronze; retired January 2023.
Lucas–Kanade method
The Lucas–Kanade method is a widely used computer vision technique for image alignment and optical flow, introduced in 1981 by Bruce Lucas and Takeo Kanade of Carnegie-Mellon University.
Lucas' reagent
Lucas' reagent is a solution of anhydrous zinc chloride in concentrated hydrochloric acid, used in the Lucas test, reported in 1930, to classify alcohols as primary, secondary, or tertiary.
Lucascavin family
Lucascavin family: a three-member, very young asteroid family in the inner main belt, age 300–1000 kyr, formed by rotational fission of parent 21509 Lucascavin; no other members with H ≤ 18.3.
Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm (Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC) is the American production company George Lucas founded in 1971, home of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM, and Skywalker Sound; acquired by Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion and now led by Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan.