Lux (disambiguation)
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Lux or LUX may refer to:
As a word
- Lux (lx), the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance
Aviation
- Dudek Lux, a Polish paraglider design
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 2012 album by Brian Eno
- 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
- Lux Style Awards, Pakistani Film awards endorsed by Lux (soap)
- Lux (Gemini Syndrome album), a 2013 album by American heavy metal band Gemini Syndrome
Companies and organizations
- LUX (UK film company), 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
- LUX* Resorts & Hotels, a hotel operator based in Mauritius
Science and technology
- Conway's LUX method for magic squares, an algorithm for creating magic squares of order , where is a positive natural number
- Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX), a detector of dark matter particles being built at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota, USA
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
- Kazimierz Lux (1780–1846), Polish soldier and pirate
- Germán Lux (born 1982), Argentine association footballer
- Lux, on air personality at KPNT 105.7 The Point, St. Louis, MO
- Frank Lux, American professional boxer
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, the Lady of Luminosity, a playable champion character in the action real-time strategy video game League of Legends
- Lux, character in the Tron: Uprising episode Identity
Places
Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe
- Several communes of France:
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
- a Danish barley variety
As an abbreviation
Codes
- the country code for
Luxembourg in many standards:
- 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
See also
- 400 Lux, a song by Lorde on the Pure Heroine album