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Lucasfilm Games
Lucasfilm Games (LucasArts from about 1990 to 2020) is Lucasfilm's video game division, founded May 1982 in the Computer Division. First releases 1984 with Atari; SCUMM engine, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island; label restored January 2021.
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics: Cambridge professorship founded by Henry Lucas in 1663, third oldest mathematical chair in Britain; 19 holders including Newton (1669-1702), Babbage, Stokes, Dirac, Hawking, and current holder Michael Cates (2015-).
Lucayan Archipelago
Lucayan Archipelago: the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands, a 1,000-km chain of low-lying carbonate platforms in the western Atlantic, named for the extinct Lucayan Taíno people.
Lucca
Lucca is a city and provincial capital in northwestern Tuscany, Italy, on the Serchio plain; it kept its independence until 1847 and is famous for its intact Renaissance walls.
Lucca Brughmans
Lucca Kiaba Mounganga Brughmans (born 2008, Antwerp) is a Belgian goalkeeper at Genk, on loan from Liverpool, who signed for a record €35m fee for a teenage goalkeeper in September 2026.
Lucca's World
Lucca's World (Los dos hemisferios de Lucca) is a 2025 Mexican Netflix drama directed by Mariana Chenillo, based on Bárbara Anderson's book about her son with cerebral palsy and the family's journey to India for experimental Cytotron treatment.
Lucchese crime family
Lucchese crime family, one of New York's Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, originally the Gagliano family; led by Tommy Lucchese from 1951, later Anthony Corallo; known for garment district, union, and airport rackets and ongoing RICO prosecutions.
Luce (film)
Luce (2019) is a drama thriller directed by Julius Onah, adapted from J.C. Lee's 2013 play, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Tim Roth; an Eritrean adoptee's model-student image is questioned after fireworks and a Fanon essay surface.
Luce (mascot)
Luce, Italian for "light," is the official mascot of the Catholic Church's Jubilee 2025 Holy Year, an anime-style pilgrim designed by Simone Legno of tokidoki.
Luceafărul
Luceafărul ("The Evening Star") is an 1883 philosophical poem by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, in 98 stanzas telling of a celestial being in love with a mortal princess.
Lucebert
Lucebert, the pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924–1994), was a Dutch poet and visual artist who led the experimental Vijftigers movement and is counted among the major Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Lucena, Calabarzon
Lucena City, a coastal highly urbanized city in CALABARZON (Region IV-A), Philippines, and capital of Quezon province; chartered by RA 3271 in 1961, population 280,331 (2024), 33 barangays, home of the Port of Lucena.
Lucenay
Lucenay: name of several French communes, chiefly Lucenay (Rhône) in the Beaujolais, source of the white pierre de Lucenay used in Lyon Cathedral, and Lucenay-lès-Aix (Nièvre), on the Decize coal basin.
LUCENT 2 trial
The LUCENT 2 trial was a Phase 3 maintenance study of mirikizumab in ulcerative colitis, achieving clinical remission in 49.9% of patients at week 40 versus 25.1% on placebo.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies was an American telecommunications equipment company, including Bell Laboratories, spun off from AT&T in 1996; once the world's largest equipment maker, it merged into France's Alcatel in 2006.
Lucentum
Lucentum is the ancient Iberian-Roman town in Alicante, Spain, traditionally identified with the Tossal de Manises archaeological site and regarded as the origin of the modern city of Alicante.
Lucerastat
Lucerastat (ACT-434964, N-butyldeoxygalactonojirimycin) is Idorsia's oral glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor, a substrate reduction therapy for Fabry disease; its Phase 3 MODIFY trial missed the neuropathic pain endpoint but lowered Gb3 biomarkers, and it is not yet approved.
Lucerne
Lucerne (German: Luzern) is a city in central Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Lucerne, lying where the Reuss River leaves Lake Lucerne.
Lucero (entertainer)
Lucero (Lucero Hogaza León, born 1969), also Lucerito or La Novia de América, Mexican singer-actress; 30+ million records, pop and ranchera albums, telenovelas, and the 2027 mariachi album Conexión Mexicana.
Luch
Luch, the professional name of Daniel Grossman, is a Mexican DJ and producer from Mexico City, now based in Miami, working in Afro house and melodic house.
Lucha libre
Lucha libre, Mexican professional wrestling, also called lucha mexicana: masked, high-flying scripted sport with técnicos vs rudos, two-of-three-falls matches, Mexico City heritage status since 2018, and WWE's 2025 acquisition of AAA.
Lucha Libre AAA (TV program)
Lucha Libre AAA, the weekly TV program of Mexico's AAA promotion, airing since 1992 on Televisa and now Saturdays on Fox LATAM and WWE YouTube after WWE's April 2025 acquisition.
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, also known as AAA, is a Mexican professional wrestling promotion founded in 1992 by Antonio Peña and owned by WWE since 2025.
Lucha Underground
Lucha Underground: American wrestling TV series and promotion (2014-2018) on El Rey Network, created by Mark Burnett and Robert Rodriguez; 4 seasons, 127 episodes, cinematic season-based format, Temple venue, and titles including the Lucha Underground Championship.
Luchasaurus
Luchasaurus (Austin Matelson, also Killswitch, Judas Devlin, Vibora), American masked dinosaur-gimmick wrestler; AEW World Tag Team and TNT Champion, formerly WWE NXT developmental, sidelined by pneumonia and 2026 surgeries.
Luchazes
Luchazes (Lucusse) is a municipality in Moxico Province, Angola, seat at Cangamba, covering 43,344 km² with about 17,827 inhabitants; site of the 1983 Cangamba battles.
Luchegorsky Coal Mine
The Luchegorsky Coal Mine (Лучегорский угольный разрез) is an open-pit brown coal mine in Luchegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia, opened in 1973 to fuel the Primorskaya GRES power station.
Luchenggang City Site
鹿城岗城址 (Luchenggang city site), an Eastern Zhou rammed-earth walled city near Xingtai, Hebei, about 500,000 sq m with walls up to 6 m high; discovered 2005, a seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit (2013).
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone (1906–1976), Milanese count, Italian film, theatre, and opera director; Ossessione debut, neorealism, Il Gattopardo Palme d'Or, La Scala productions with Callas.
Lucho Argain
Lucho Argaín, born Luis Guillermo Pérez Cedrón (1927–2002), was a Colombian composer and singer from Cartagena who founded La Sonora Dinamita in 1960 and wrote "Se me perdió la cadenita".