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Lucky Financial

Lucky, also branded Lucky ONE and Lucky Financial, is an Egyptian consumer fintech founded in Cairo in 2019, offering cashback, credit lines, and the Lucky One card.

Lucky Hank

Lucky Hank (formerly Straight Man) is a 2023 AMC comedy-drama starring Bob Odenkirk as English department chair Hank Devereaux Jr. at Railton College, adapted from Richard Russo's 1997 novel Straight Man; cancelled after one eight-episode season in December 2023.

Lucky Investment Managers

Lucky Investment Managers is a Mumbai-based private investment firm founded by Ashish Kacholia in 1995, backing startups and public stocks; its private arm held 88 companies by 2025.

Lucky iron fish

The Lucky Iron Fish is a fish-shaped iron ingot boiled in cooking liquid to release iron against iron deficiency anemia, developed at the University of Guelph.

Lucky Jackson

Lucky Jackson (Dontavian Jackson, born 1997) is an American wide receiver from Lexington, Kentucky; WKU record-holder, 2023 All-XFL with DC Defenders, Vikings and Lions practice-squad player.

Lucky Lady

Lucky Lady is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, and Burt Reynolds as rum runners during Prohibition.

Lucky Lilac (ラッキーライラック)

Lucky Lilac (ラッキーライラック), Japanese Thoroughbred filly foaled 2015 by Orfevre out of Lilacs And Lace; four-time G1 winner (Hanshin Juvenile Fillies 2017, Queen Elizabeth II Cup 2019 and 2020, Osaka Hai 2020), 2017 champion two-year-old filly, now a broodmare at Northern Farm.

Lucky Lu

Lucky Lu (幸福之路) is a 2025 drama, Lloyd Lee Choi's feature debut, starring Chang Chen as a New York Chinese delivery rider whose e-bike is stolen days before his family arrives; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897–1962), born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, was an Italian-born American mobster who reorganized the Mafia into the Five Families and created the Commission.

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke, the Franco-Belgian western comic created by Morris in 1946 and scripted by René Goscinny from 1955, follows the cowboy faster than his shadow with Jolly Jumper; 116 albums, 420 million copies, 36 languages.

Lucky number

A lucky number is a positive integer surviving a position-based sieve invented at Los Alamos in 1956 as a variation of the sieve of Eratosthenes.

Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin (2006) is a neo-noir crime thriller directed by Paul McGuigan, written by Jason Smilovic, starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, and Lucy Liu, built on a Kansas City Shuffle revenge plot.

Lucky Per

Lykke-Per (Lucky Per / A Fortunate Man) is Henrik Pontoppidan's 1898–1904 eight-volume Danish novel about pastor's son Per Sidenius, engineer and visionary, rewritten several times, Nobel-linked, part of the Danish Kulturkanon.

Lucky Romance (운빨로맨스)

Lucky Romance (운빨로맨스, Romance By Luck) is a 2016 MBC South Korean romantic comedy drama, 16 episodes, adapted from Kim Dal-nim's webtoon, starring Hwang Jung-eum and Ryu Jun-yeol as a superstitious woman and a rational game-company CEO.

Lucky Spencer

Lucky Spencer (Lucas Lorenzo Spencer Jr.) is a General Hospital character, son of Luke and Laura, originated by Jonathan Jackson in 1993 and later played by Jacob Young and Greg Vaughan.

Lucky Star (1929 film)

Lucky Star (1929) is Frank Borzage's Fox silent part-talkie romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, based on Tristram Tupper's short story; the American talkie version is lost, the silent version survives via a Dutch restoration.

Lucky Star (らき☆すた) (manga)

Lucky Star (らき☆すた), also romanized Raki☆Suta, is Kagami Yoshimizu's four-panel slice-of-life manga about otaku high schooler Konata Izumi and friends, serialized in Comptiq from 2004, collected in 10 volumes, and adapted into a 2007 Kyoto Animation anime.

Lucky Stars Go Places (最佳福星)

Lucky Stars Go Places (最佳福星, aka The Luckiest Stars, Japanese 十福星) is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Eric Tsang, the fourth Lucky Stars film, a crossover with Aces Go Places starring Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, and Karl Maka.

Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike is an American cigarette brand registered in 1871, known for the red bull's-eye pack and slogans like "It's Toasted," and owned since 1994 by British American Tobacco.

Lucky Strike (2026 film)

Lucky Strike is a 2026 American WWII war film directed by Rod Lurie, written by Marc Frydman, starring Scott Eastwood as Captain John Castle, a wounded soldier trapped behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge with only a Motorola SCR-300 radio; released June 26, 2026 by Roadside Attractions.

Lucky the Superstar

Lucky the Superstar (லக்கி தி சூப்பர்ஸ்டார்) is a 2026 Tamil comedy-drama directed by Uday Mahesh, starring G.V. Prakash Kumar and Anaswara Rajan, about a lucky puppy; it premiered directly on JioHotstar on 20 February 2026.

Lucky: No Time for Love

Lucky: No Time for Love is a 2005 Hindi romantic drama, also called Lucky, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, starring Salman Khan and debutante Sneha Ullal; set in St. Petersburg during an uprising, it opened strongly and earned 27.81 crore on a 14 crore budget.

Lucky's First Love (世界欠我一个初恋)

Lucky's First Love (世界欠我一个初恋, The World Owes Me a First Love) is a 2019 Chinese 24-episode iQIYI romantic comedy adapted from An Siyuan's novel, starring Xing Zhaolin and Bai Lu as boss and sketch artist at gaming company TIG.

LuckyChap Entertainment

LuckyChap Entertainment, production company founded in 2014 by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr; known for I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, Saltburn and the $1.4 billion Barbie, with a first-look Warner Bros deal and the Mediawan-backed LuckyChap International venture.

LucoHybrid trial

The LucoHybrid trial (NCT02882880) was a completed clinical trial in Kingston, Ontario, testing the Luco Hybrid OSA Appliance for sleep bruxism and related headaches in 51 adults.

Lucone di Polpenazze

Lucone di Polpenazze (IT-LM-05) is an Early Bronze Age pile-dwelling site in a former lake basin at Polpenazze del Garda, Brescia, Italy; UNESCO-listed since 2011. Site D, excavated since 2007 by the Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, is dendrochronologically dated 2034–1967 cal BC and yielded enigmatic tablets.

Lucos

Lucos, an unlocated Roman statio on the Via Herculia near Potentia in southern Italy, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Pisandes and Potentia; proposed as the Mefitis sanctuary at Rossano di Vaglio; distinct from Lucus Asturum in Spain.

Lucozade

Lucozade is a British soft drink brand created in 1927 as a glucose recovery drink for sick people and repositioned as an energy drink from the 1980s.

Lucrecia Dalt

Lucrecia Dalt, born María Lucrecia Pérez López in 1980, is a Colombian experimental electronic musician and former geotechnical engineer based in New Mexico, known for the acclaimed 2022 album ¡Ay!.

Lucretia

Lucretia, Roman matron and wife of Collatinus, raped by Sextus Tarquinius; her suicide in the Livy tradition triggered the 509 BCE expulsion of the Tarquinii and founding of the Roman Republic, inspiring writers and painters from Ovid to Rembrandt.