Lux (disambiguation)

Lux or LUX may refer to:

As a word

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

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)

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 $4n+2$, where $n$ 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:
  • Lux, Côte-d'Or
  • Lux, Haute-Garonne
  • Lux, Saône-et-Loire

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:
  • 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

See also

• 400 Lux, a song by Lorde on the Pure Heroine album