Luke (given name)

Luke
Gender:	unknown
Origin:	Italian
Meaning:	"Light"

Luke is a common male given name, sometimes a shortened version of the Latin name Lucas. The name Luke is derived from the name of a region in Italy, Lucania, through the Greek "Loukas", meaning "a native of Lucania".[1][2].

Luke can refer to:

Among people:

• Luke the Evangelist, a travel companion and disciple of Paul of Tarsus
  • Gospel of Luke, a book in the New Testament traditionally held to be authored by Luke the Evangelist
• Saints Luke Loan Ba Vu and Luke Thin Viet Pham, of the Vietnamese Martyrs
• Luke Wilson, an American actor
• Luke Perry, an American actor
• Luke Walton, a professional basketball player
• Brian Wickens (known as Luke Williams), a professional wrestler
• Luke Cummo, a mixed martial arts fighter in The Ultimate Fighter
• Luke Edward Wright (1846-1922), an American politician
• Steve "Luke" Lukather, an American guitarist
• Luther Campbell, also known as Luke Skyywalker, a rap performer and former member of 2 Live Crew
• Timothy Luke

Among characters in fiction:

• Luke Duke, a character on The Dukes of Hazzard television show
• Lucky Luke, a Belgian comic book series set in the American Old West
• Luke the Warrior, the father of Martin the Warrior in the Redwall book series
• Luke Danes, a character on Gilmore Girls
• Luke Perry, the narrator of the Sword of the Spirits trilogy of novels
• Red Hand Luke, a born-again Christian and violent loyalist psychopath in Give My Head Peace
• Luke Garner, the protaganist in few books in the Shadow Children sequence
• Luke fon Fabre, the protagonist of the rpg video game Tales of the Abyss
• Luke, an antagonist and son of Hermes from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

In geography:

• Luke, Maryland, a village in western Maryland
• Luke, Kriva Palanka, a village in the Kriva Palanka municipality of Macedonia
• Luke, Estonia, a village in Estonia

Luke can also refer to:

• Cool Hand Luke, a film starring Paul Newman
• Luke Air Force Base, a large U.S. Airforce base in Arizona
• Luke (Danish band), a Danish electronica ensemble
• Luke Records, a record label
• Lucas Oil Stadium, the future stadium for the Indianapolis Colts

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