Lucas (surname)
Lucas is a male first name and a family name.
Origin and Meaning
The name is a variant of Luke, see there Etymology and namesakes. The name means something like Lucas, The Shining '.
First name
As a first name spelling Lucas in Europe is particularly commonly found in English, French, Belgian and Dutch-speaking area in the respective pronunciation manner. But even in German-speaking regions you meet him in this form.
Well-known bearers of the name
Family name
A
- Adolf Lucas (1862-1945), German politician
- Al Lucas (1916-1983), Canadian jazz bassist
- Arthur Henry Lucas (1853-1936), Anglo- Australian naturalist
- August Lucas (1803-1863), German artist and landscape painter
B
- Botho Lucas (1923-2012), founder of one of the most vocal ensembles in the 1960s and 1970s ( Botho -Lucas -Chor )
- Bryan Lucas (born 1978 ), American basketball player
C
- Caroline Lucas ( born 1960 ), British politician ( Green Party )
- Louis Lucas (1796-1854), German teacher and school board
- Clarence Lucas (1866-1947), Canadian composer, conductor and music teacher
- Clyde Lucas, American jazz musician and big band leader
- Cornel Lucas (1920-2012), British photographer
- Craig Lucas ( born 1951 ), American theater playwright, screenwriter and film director
D
- Denis Vrain -Lucas (1818-1881), French forger
E
- Édouard Lucas (1842-1891), French mathematician
- Edward Lucas (1816-1882), German fruit growing watchers ( Pomologe )
- Edward Lucas ( congressman ) ( 1780-1858 ), a congressman in Virginia
- Edward Lucas ( Irish politician ) ( 1787-1871 ), Member of Parliament ( 1834-1841 )
- Edward Lucas ( Australian politician ) ( 1857-1950 ), Australian politician
- Edward Lucas ( journalist) (born 1962 ), British journalist
- Enrique de Lucas ( born 1979 ), Spanish footballer
- Erhard Lucas (1937-1993), German historian
- Éric Lucas (born 1971 ), Canadian a boxer
F
- Fernando Romeo Lucas García (1924-2006), Guatemalan President and General
- Fielding Lucas (1781-1854), American cartographer, publisher and artist
Frank E. Lucas (1876-1948), American politician
- Frank Lucas ( Gangster ) ( born 1930 ), American Gangster and drug dealers
- Frank Lucas ( politician ) ( born 1960 ), American politician
- Francis Lucas (1911-1994), German concentration camp doctor
- Franz D. Lucas (1921-1998), German historian
- Frederic Lucas (1852-1929), American biologist and museum director
G
- Gary Lucas ( born 1952 ), American musician
- George Lucas (1865-1930), lawyer, member of the Reichstag
- George Lucas ( born 1944 ), American producer, screenwriter and director
- George Lucas Coser ( born 1984 ), Brazilian footballer
- George Joseph Lucas ( born 1949 ), American clergyman, Archbishop of Omaha
- Geralyn Lucas, American author
- Gernot Lucas ( born 1938 ), German architect
- Guido Lucas, German record producer and musician
B
- Hans Lucas (1865-1939), German classical scholar and school teacher
- Heinz Lucas ( * 1920 ), German football coach
- Henry Lucas (around 1610-1663 ), member of the English Parliament, founder of Luca -sian Department of Mathematics
- Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001), American serial killer
- Hippolyte Lucas ( writer ) ( 1807-1878 ), French writer
- Hippolyte Lucas ( entomologist ) ( 1814-1899 ), French entomologist and Arachnologe
- Hippolyte Lucas (1854-1925), French painter, see Marie Félix Hippolyte - Lucas
- Howard J. Lucas (1885-1963), American chemist
I
- Isabel Lucas ( born 1985 ), Australian actress
J
- Jean Lucas (1917-2003), French race car driver
- Jerry Lucas ( born 1940 ), American basketball player
- Jessica Lucas ( born 1985 ), Canadian actress
- John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield ( 1606-1671 ), British peer
- John Lucas ( basketball player ) ( born 1953 ), American basketball player and coach
- John Lucas III ( b. 1982 ), American basketball player
- John Baptiste Charles Lucas (1758-1842), American politician
- John Meredyth Lucas (1919-2002), American screenwriter, film director and producer
- John Randolph Lucas ( born 1929 ), English philosopher
- John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), English painter
- Jon Lucas (born 1976 ), American film director
- Josanne Lucas ( born 1984 ), athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
- Joseph Lucas (1906-1973), German architect
- Joseph Lucas (1834-1902), founder of a British automotive company
- Josh Lucas (born 1971 ), American actor
K
- Kellie Lucas (born 1978 ), Australian badminton player
- Ken Lucas ( born 1933), American politician
- Klaus Lucas ( born 1943 ), German machine manufacturer
- Kurt Lucas (1905-1986), German trade unionist ( fdgb )
L
- Laurent Lucas (born 1965 ), French actor
- Leopold Lucas (1872-1943), German historian and rabbi
M
- Manfred Lucas ( born 1943 ), German politician ( SPD)
- Marcia Lucas ( born 1945 ), American film editor
- Martin Lucas (1894-1969), a Dutch clergyman, Divine Word missionary and papal diplomat
- Matt Lucas ( born 1974 ), English actor
- Maurice Lucas (1952-2010), American basketball player
- Maxwell Lucas (1910-2010), American R & B and jazz musicians
- Meriel Lucas ( 1875-19 **), English badminton player
- Michael Lucas (born 1972 ), American film director
P
- Pablo de Lucas ( born 1986 ), Spanish footballer
- Paul Lucas (1664-1737), French merchant, explorer and antiquity watchers in the service of Louis XIV
- Peter J. Lucas (born 1962 ), Polish actor
- Philippe Lucas ( born 1963 ), French footballer
- Prosper Lucas (1805-1885), French Medic
R
- Reggie Lucas ( born 1953 ), American guitarist, composer and producer
- Robert Lucas ( governor) ( 1781-1853 ), American politician
- Robert Lucas ( writer ) (actually Robert honorary branch; 1904-1984 ), Austrian journalist and writer
- Robert E. Lucas ( born 1937 ), American economist
- Rudolf Lucas (1916-1980), German jurist and politician
S
- Sarah Lucas ( b. 1962 ), British artist
- Scott W. Lucas (1892-1968), American politician
- Simon Lucas, Africa traveler
- Stephan Lucas (born 1972 ), lawyer and actor
T
- Theo Lucas, a pop singer
- Thomas Pennington Lucas (1843-1917), British entomologist
- Trevor Lucas (1943-1989), Australian folk singer and guitarist
W
- Wilfred Lucas (1871-1940), American actor, director and writer
- William Lucas ( politician ) ( 1800-1877 ), American politician
- William Lucas ( actor) ( born 1925 ), British actor
- William Thomas Lucas ( * 1875), Canadian politician
- William V. Lucas (1835-1921), American politician
- Willy Lucas (1884-1918), German landscape painter
- Wingate H. Lucas (1908-1989), American politician
Artist Name
- Lucas Pezzini Leiva (* 1987), Brazilian footballer
- Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva (* 1992), Brazilian footballer
- Lucas Severino ( born 1979 ), Brazilian footballer