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Lúcio
Lúcio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva, born 1978), Brazilian centre-back; 105 caps, 2002 World Cup winner playing every minute, 2010 Inter treble, Bayern doubles, Brazil captain 2006-2011, retired 2020 at 41.
Lucio Bini
Lucio Bini (1908–1964) was an Italian physician and engineer who co-invented electroconvulsive therapy with Ugo Cerletti at the University of Rome, building the first ECT apparatus and patenting it.
Lúcio Cardoso
Lúcio Cardoso (Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, 1912–1968) was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, poet, and diarist from Minas Gerais, a central figure of 1930s and 1940s Brazilian psychological fiction.
Lucio Co
Lucio Co, born in 1953, is a Filipino retail magnate who, with his wife Susan, founded the Puregold supermarket chain in 1998, now held under Cosco Capital.
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla was an Italian singer-songwriter from Bologna, once a jazz clarinettist, best known for 'Caruso' and 'Attenti al lupo'; he died in Montreux in 2012.
Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter and sculptor who founded the postwar movement Spatialism, best known for his pierced and slashed monochrome canvases titled Concetto spaziale.
Lucio Frydman
Lucio Frydman is an NMR and MRI spectroscopist, professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, known for MQMAS solid-state NMR and ultrafast single-scan multidimensional NMR.
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci (1927–1996), Italian film director and screenwriter from Rome, the "Godfather of Gore"; directed Zombi 2, The Beyond, City of the Living Dead and the Gates of Hell trilogy after a comedy career.
Lucio Lanza
Lucio Lanza, born in Italy in 1944, is a Silicon Valley venture investor who founded Lanza techVentures and received the 2014 Phil Kaufman Award for electronic system design.
Lucio Luzzatto
Lucio Luzzatto, born 1936, is an Italian hematologist and geneticist who showed paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a clonal disorder and cloned the human G6PD gene.
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer is an Italian-born computational astrophysicist at the University of Zurich, known for proposing a merger-driven direct-collapse mechanism for supermassive black hole formation in a 2010 Nature paper.
Lucio Tan
Lucio Tan (陈永栽, Chen Yongzai), born in Fujian, is a Chinese-Filipino billionaire who founded Fortune Tobacco in 1966, acquired Philippine Airlines, and survived two decades of Marcos-era sequestration litigation.
Lucio Vero
Lucio Vero (Lucius Aurelius Verus), co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius 161-169 AD; his famous Villa di Lucio Vero on the via Clodia at Acquatraversa, Rome, with glass opus sectile, mosaics, and imperial busts.
Lucíola
Lucíola is an 1862 urban romance by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, in which a courtesan named Lúcia seeks redemption through love in Second Empire Rio de Janeiro.
Lucious Lyon
Lucious Lyon, born Dwight Walker, is the fictional antihero founder-CEO of Empire Entertainment in Fox's drama Empire (2015-2020), portrayed by Terrence Howard, father of Andre, Jamal, and Hakeem.
Lucius (band)
Lucius is an American indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York, built around the vocals of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who performed on the album Wildewoman (2013) and for Harry Styles.
Lucius Artorius Castus
Lucius Artorius Castus, Roman equestrian officer of the late 2nd-early 3rd century known from two Dalmatian inscriptions; served in Britain with legio VI Victrix; proposed by Malone, Littleton, and Malcor as a prototype of King Arthur, a link most scholars reject.
Lucius D. Clay
Lucius DuBignon Clay was a US Army general and logistics specialist who served as Military Governor of Germany and directed the Berlin Airlift before acting as President Kennedy's representative.
Lucius Fox
Lucius Fox: DC Comics character created by Len Wein and John Calnan, first appearing in Batman #307 (1979); CEO of Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne's business manager, and Batman's financier and tech provider, played by Morgan Freeman in Nolan's films.
Lucius I
Lucius I was bishop of Rome from 25 June 253 to 5 March 254, the twenty-second holder of the office, briefly banished by Emperor Gallus, and confirmed leniency toward penitent lapsed Christians.
Lucius II
Lucius II, born Gerard Caccianemici of Bologna, was the 166th pope, reigning from 1144 to 1145; he fought the Roman Commune and died after a failed assault on the Capitol.
Lucius III
Lucius III, born Ubaldo Allucingoli of Lucca, was pope from 1181 to 1185; exiled from Rome, he issued the anti-heretical decretal Ad abolendam at Verona in 1184.
Lucius Junius Brutus
Lucius Junius Brutus, legendary founder of the Roman Republic and first consul with Collatinus; expelled Tarquin the Proud after Lucretia's rape, executed his sons, died at Silva Arsia, 509 BCE.
Lucius of Britain
Lucius of Britain, also called Lleirwg or Lleufer-Mawr, is a legendary second-century king said to be Britain's first Christian ruler, who wrote to Pope Eleutherus; historians regard the story as a legend, likely from a misreading about Edessa.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, early Roman Republic patrician and legendary dictator of 458 and 439 BCE, called from his four-iugera farm to defeat the Aequi and resign within fifteen days; source Livy, Books 3-4.
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (Tarquin the Elder), traditionally the fifth king of Rome (616–579 BCE), said to be son of Demaratus of Corinth; credited with the Circus Maximus, cloacae, Capitolium temple start, enlarged Senate, first Etruscan-style triumph, and Servius Tullius succession.
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquinio il Superbo), Tarquin the Proud, traditionally the seventh and last king of Rome 534–510 BC, who seized power by murder, built the Capitoline temple and Cloaca Maxima, and was expelled in 509 BC after Sextus's rape of Lucretia.
Lucius Verus
Lucius Verus (Lucius Aurelius Verus, 130-169) was Roman co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius from 161 to 169, the first formal joint rule; he led the Parthian War, married Lucilla, and died near Altinum.
Lucjan Böttcher
Lucjan Böttcher (Lucjan Emil Böttcher) was a Polish mathematician, born in Warsaw in 1872, who pioneered complex dynamics and gave his name to Böttcher's theorem and coordinate.
Lucjan Żeligowski
Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947) was a Polish general and statesman who staged the 1920 "mutiny" seizing Vilnius, creating the Republic of Central Lithuania that joined Poland in 1922.