Lux (disambiguation)

Lux or LUX may refer to:

As a word

Media

• Lux Prize for European Cinema, given by the European Parliament
• Lux Radio Theater, a former long-run classic radio anthology series
• Lux (album), a 1995 album by britpop band Thurman
• Lux (video game), a computer strategy game
• Life Unexpected, a TV series referred to as Lux in the early development stages

Companies and organizations

• LUX, a UK organization established to promote and support artists' moving image work
• Lux Film, Italian film distribution and production company founded by Riccardo Gualino in 1934
• Lux Products, an American manufacturer of thermostats, timers, and other appliances

People

Real persons (in chronological order)

• Adam Lux (1765–1793), German revolutionary
• Gwen Creighton Lux (1908–2001), American sculptor
• Lux Interior (1946–2009, real name Erick Lee Purkhiser), American singer, one of the founders of the punk band The Cramps
• Thomas Lux (born 1946), American poet who currently holds the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Josef Lux (1956–1999), Czech Christian democrat, leader of Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party during the 1990s
• Lucien Lux (born 1956), Luxembourgian politician
• Loretta Lux (born 1969), German photographer, known for her surreal portraits of young children
• Germán Lux (born 1982), Argentine association footballer
• Lux, on air personality at KPNT 105.7 The Point, St. Louis, MO

Fictional characters

• Lux Cassidy, main character in the CW drama Life Unexpected
• Lux Lisbon, 14-year-old character in the 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides and the 1999 film of the same name
• Lux, character in the game League of Legends

Places

• Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe
• Several communes of France:
  • Lux, Côte-d'Or
  • Lux, Haute-Garonne
  • Lux, Saône-et-Loire

Science and technology

• Lux (lx), the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance

Miscellaneous

• Lux, the in-residence choir of the Episcopal Church at the Princeton University Chapel
• Lux (soap), a soap from Unilever
• Latin: Fiat lux (“Let there be light”), a phrase from the third verse of the book of Genesis
• Lux, one of the guns of the character Jayne Cobb from the sci-fi TV series Firefly

As an acronym

Codes

• the country code for Luxembourg in many standards:
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
  • FIFA country code
  • IOC country code
  • NATO country code
  • ITU letter code
  • UNDP country code
  • GOST 7.67 Latin 3-letter code
• The IATA airport code of Luxembourg-Findel International Airport, the main airport of Luxembourg
• The New York Stock Exchange ticker of Luxottica, an international eyewear company

Science and technology

• Conway's LUX method for magic squares, an algorithm for creating magic squares of order $4n+2$, where $n$ is a positive natural number
• Large Underground Xenon Detector, a detector of dark matter particles being built in the Homestake Mine in Lead, SD