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Lewis is the Anglicised form of "Leòdhas", the Scottish Gaelic name for the northern part of the island of Lewis and Harris. It may also be an anglicised version of the French "Louis" or the Hebrew "Levi".

Lewis may also refer to:

Names

Lewis (surname), a family name
Lewis Addison Armistead, general in the American Civil War
Lewis Archer Boswell, aviator
Adrian Lewis, English darts player
Arthur Lewis mis-spelling of Arthur Louis, reggae, blues cross-over songwriter
Lewis Carroll, pen name of the English author
Clarence Irving Lewis, American philosopher
C. S. Lewis, English writer, Christian apologist
Harry Lewis (boxer) ("Harry Besterman"), American world champion welterweight boxer
Jerry Lewis (Jerome Levitch), American comedian, actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director and singer
Lewis Collins, English actor
Lewis Dark, English footballer
Lewis Hamilton, British Formula One racing driver
Lewis Hamilton (footballer), English footballer
Lewis Harris, English rugby league player
Lennox Lewis, former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion
Leona Lewis, record-breaking English singer
Linda Lewis (author), an English author
Linda Lewis, British singer
Linda Gail Lewis, American piano player and singer
Ted "Kid" Lewis (Gershon Mendeloff), English world champion Hall of Fame welterweight boxer
Lewys Glyn Cothi, also spelt Lewis Glyn Cothi, 15th century Welsh poet
Lewis Nash, jazz drummer
Lewis Yancey, aviator
Lewis Young, English footballer
William Lewis, English chess player of the 19th century

United States places

Businesses

Lewis Masonic, major Masonic publisher in England
Lewis's, chain of department stores in England and Scotland (1856-1990s), originating in Liverpool
Lewis & Co, a firm of organ builders in Brixton, London from 1860 to 1919.
John Lewis (department store)

Science

Lewis structure, a diagram of a molecule that shows the bonding between the atoms
Lewis acids and bases
Lewis number, in fluid dynamics and transport phenomena
Lewis rat, an inbred strain of laboratory rat

Fictional characters

Lewis (The Simpsons), a fictional character in The Simpsons
Lewis (TV series), a British television detective series
Lewis Zimmerman, Star Trek character

Ships

USS Lewis, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
USS Lewis and Clark (SSBN-644), a United States Navy ballistic missile submarine in commission from 1965 to 1992
USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1), a United States Navy dry cargo ship in non-commissioned service with the Military Sealift Command since 2006
USS Milton Lewis (DE-772), a United States Navy destroyer escort cancelled in 1944

Other uses

Lewis, the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles of Scotland
Lewis chessmen, chess pieces carved in ivory
Lewis Gun, machine gun
Lewis University, private school in Romeoville, Illinois
Lewis (cat), a cat that was placed under house arrest
Lewis (lifting appliance), a steel stone-lifting device
"Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead from My Iron Lung
Lewis (robot), a robotic wedding photographer
Lewis Hamilton, former name of the SS Indus (1945)

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 * [[Lewis's]], chain of department stores in England and Scotland (1856-1990s), originating in Liverpool
 * [[Lewis & Co]], a firm of [[Pipe organ|organ]] builders in [[Brixton]], [[London]] from 1860 to 1919.
+* [[John Lewis (department store)]]
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