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Lucid Fall

Lucid Fall (루시드 폴) is the stage name of Jo Yun-suk, a South Korean poetic folk singer-songwriter who debuted with Misoni in 1998 and went solo in 2001.

Lucid Motors

Lucid Motors, also known as Lucid Group and formerly Atieva, is an American electric vehicle maker based in Newark, California, building the Air sedan and Gravity SUV.

Lucie Arnaz

Lucie Arnaz (born 1951, Los Angeles), daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, American actress and singer; Kim Carter on Here's Lucy (CBS, 1968-74), Broadway debut in They're Playing Our Song (1979), 1993 Emmy for Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie.

Lucie Decosse

Lucie Decosse, French judoka (born 1981, Chaumont), Olympic champion -70 kg London 2012, silver Beijing 2008, three-time world champion (2005, 2010, 2011), four-time European champion; French women's head coach since 2025.

Lucie Jones

Lucie Jones (Lucie Bethan Jones), Welsh singer and actress born 1991 in Cardiff, X Factor 2009 finalist, UK Eurovision 2017 entry with "Never Give Up on You" (15th), and West End star in Les Misérables, Waitress, and Wicked.

Lucie Petit Daigre

Lucie Petit Daigre (Petit-Diagre, 1901-2001), French-born Belgian discus thrower and shot putter; set women's discus world records of 27.70 m and 28.325 m in July 1924; 20th in discus for Belgium at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.

Lucie Prost

Lucie Prost (1905–1970), French foil fencer; reached the women's individual foil semi-finals at the 1924 Paris and 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; also a namesake in 1920s French women's athletics.

Lucie Rie

Lucie Rie (1902–1995), born Lucie Gomperz in Vienna, was an Austrian-British studio potter who fled to London in 1938 and became one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century studio pottery.

Lucie Šafářová

Lucie Šafářová (born 1987, Brno) is a retired Czech tennis player, 2015 French Open singles finalist, former world No. 1 in doubles, winner of five Grand Slam doubles titles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medalist.

Lucien A. Schmit Jr.

Lucien A. Schmit Jr. (1928–2018) was an American aerospace engineer regarded as the father of structural optimization for his 1960 paper combining finite element analysis with nonlinear programming.

Lucien Bonaparte

Lucien Bonaparte (Luciano, prince of Canino), 1775–1840, French revolutionary politician, Napoleon's younger brother; president of the Council of Five Hundred during the 18–19 Brumaire coup, interior minister, later exiled in Italy.

Lucien C. Malavard

Lucien Malavard (1910–1990) was a French aeronautical engineer known for flow visualization and analog computation, who founded the CNRS laboratory LIMSI and joined the US National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Lucien Carr

Lucien Carr (1925-2005), American journalist and UPI news editor who brought together Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs at Columbia in 1944, founding the Beat circle, and served prison time for manslaughter in the killing of David Kammerer.

Lucien Choury

Lucien Eugène Choury (1898-1987), French track cyclist nicknamed Chouchou or La Bosse; 1924 Paris Olympic tandem sprint gold medalist with Jean Cugnot, also fourth in team pursuit and a non-finisher in the 50 km.

Lucien Clergue

Lucien Clergue (1934–2014) was a self-taught French photographer from Arles who founded the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival and became the first photographer elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Lucien Dautrebande

Lucien Dautrebande (1894–1968) was a Belgian physician and pharmacologist, professor at the Université de Liège, and co-author with Corneille Heymans of the 1930–1931 carotid sinus papers.

Lucien Engelen

Lucien Engelen (born 1962) is a Dutch healthcare innovation strategist who founded the REshape Center at Radboud University Medical Center, initiated the #patientsincluded charter, and wrote Augmented health(care).

Lucien Favre

Lucien Favre, born 1957 in Saint-Barthelemy, Switzerland, is a Swiss football manager who coached FC Zurich, Hertha BSC, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund, and Nice; three-time Bundesliga Coach of the Year, retired from coaching in December 2025.

Lucien Laurin

Lucien Laurin was a French Canadian thoroughbred trainer best known for training Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, and Riva Ridge, winner of the 1972 Kentucky Derby.

Lucien Laviscount

Lucien Leon Laviscount (born 1992, Lancashire) is a British actor known for Grange Hill, Waterloo Road, Snatch, Scream Queens, and as Alfie in Netflix's Emily in Paris from 2021; KILIAN PARIS ambassador 2024.

Lucien Le Cam

Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000) was a French statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, who built the modern theory of asymptotic statistics, including local asymptotic normality.

Lucien Mallet

Lucien Mallet (1885–1981) was a French radiologist and radiotherapist who described and photographed the bluish glow of water under radium gamma rays between 1926 and 1929, before Cherenkov.

Lucien Merignac

Lucien Mérignac (Louis Lucien Mérignac, 1873–1941), French fencing master and 1900 Paris Olympic gold medalist in masters foil, beating Alphonse Kirchhoffer in a barrage; son of Louis Mérignac.

Lucien Michard

Lucien Michard (Lucien Henri Michard, 1903-1985), French track sprint cyclist nicknamed Le tacticien; 1924 Olympic 1,000 m sprint champion and six-time world sprint champion (1923-24 amateur, 1927-30 professional).

Lucien Pissarro

Lucien Pissarro was a French-born painter, wood engraver, and printer, the eldest son of Camille Pissarro, who settled in London in 1890 and ran the Eragny Press with his wife Esther.

Lucien Szpiro

Lucien Szpiro (1941–2020) was a French mathematician best known for Szpiro's conjecture comparing the discriminant and conductor of an elliptic curve, and for proving the Shafarevich conjecture over function fields.

Lucien Victor

Lucien Victor (Lucien Honoré Victor, 1931–1995), Belgian road cyclist from Oekene; Olympic gold in the 1952 Helsinki team road race with Noyelle and Grondelaers, fourth individually; won 1952 under-23 Tour of Flanders and 1954 Omloop van het Houtland.

Lucienne Boyer

Lucienne Boyer was a French chanson singer, born Émilienne-Henriette Boyer in Paris, best known for "Parlez-moi d'amour", which won the first Grand Prix du Disque and sold over 350,000 copies in France.

Lucienne Day

Lucienne Day (1917–2010) was a British textile designer whose abstract pattern 'Calyx', made for the 1951 Festival of Britain, made her the foremost British textile designer of her period.

Lucienne family

Lucienne family (FIN 409): small, compact, high-inclination S-type asteroid family in the inner main belt, parent (1892) Lucienne, 142 members at 100 m/s cutoff, albedo 0.22, likely second-generation fragmentation.