Lulu

Lulu may refer to:

Companies

• Lulu (company), an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer
• LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer
• Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia
• Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a British Columbia-based athletic apparel company

Places

• Lulu, Florida, United States, an unincorporated community
• Lulu City, Colorado, United States, a mining town abandoned in 1885, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Ludwigslust, a town nicknamed Lulu in Mecklenburg, Germany
• Lulu Bay, bay on Navassa Island in the Caribbean
• Lulu Town, town on Navassa Island in the Caribbean
• Lulu Island, an island which comprises most of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
• Al Lulu Island, also known as Lulu Island, a man-made island off the coast of Abu Dhabi island
• Lulu Roundabout, in Manama, Bahrain
• LuLu International Shopping Mall in Kochi

Theater, film, opera

• The two plays by Frank Wedekind whose protagonist is named Lulu:
  • Earth Spirit (play) (Erdgeist, 1895)
  • Pandora's Box (play) (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1904)
• Works based on them include:
  • Lulu (opera), a 1935 opera by Alban Berg
  • Lulu (1962 film), an Austrian film by Rolf Thiele
  • Lulu (1980 film), a film directed by Walerian Borowczyk
  • Pandora's Box (1929 film) directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on both Wedekind plays
  • Lulu, Angela Carter's 1987 feminist rewrite of the Wedekind play, published posthumously and first staged in the 1990s.

• Lulu, an 1824 opera by Friedrich Kuhlau
• Lulu (1914 film), an Italian film directed by Augusto Genina
• Lulu (1918 film), a film directed by Michael Curtiz
• Lulu (1953 film), a film directed by Fernando Cerchio
• Lulu (1996 film), a film directed by Srinivas Krishna
• Lulu (2002 film), a French film starring Jean-Pierre Kalfon
• Lulu (2005 film), a Dutch film featuring Georgina Verbaan
• Lulu (2006 film), a German TV film featuring Matthias Schweighöfer
• Lulu (2014 film), an Argentine film

Music

• Lulu (singer) (born 1948), Scottish singer
  • Lulu (1973 album)
  • Lulu (1981 album)
• Lulu Belle and Scotty, stage name of Myrtle Eleanor Cooper (1913-1999) (and Scott Greene Wiseman), a major country music acts of the 1930s and 1940s
• Lulu James (born 1991/92), British electronic and soul singer
• Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos (born 1953), Brazilian singer and guitarist
• Lulu (Trip Shakespeare album) (1991)
• Lulu (Lou Reed and Metallica album) (2011), based on the Wedekind plays
• LuLu and the TomCat, children's musical group

Fictional characters

• Lulu (Final Fantasy), in the Final Fantasy video game series
• Lulu Spencer, on the soap opera General Hospital
• Lelouch Lamperouge or Lulu, in the anime Code Geass
• Little Lulu, a comic strip character
• Lulu Teruno, alias of Tellu, one of the Death Busters from the Sailor Moon metaseries
• Lulu, a character in the TV series Gilmore Girls
• Lulu, a teddy bear in the TV series Bananas in Pyjamas
• Lulu, in the TV series True Jackson, VP
• Lulu, a playable character in the game League of Legends

Other uses

• Lulu (app), a mobile app that lets women rate men
• Lu'lu' al-Kabir (died 1008/9), minister and emir of Aleppo
• Lulu Guinness (born 1960), British fashion accessory designer
• Lulu Kennedy (born 1969), British fashion entrepreneur
• Lulu Wang (born 1960), Chinese-born writer living in the Netherlands
• Zhou Lulu (born 1988), Chinese female weightlifter and 2012 Olympic champion
• Lu Lu or Li Xiaolu (born 1982), Chinese actress
• Paddy Roe, Australian writer known as Lulu
• Anolyn Lulu (born 1979), Vanuatuan table tennis player
• Locally unwanted land use (LULU), a public-policy planning term
• Mk 101 Lulu, a nuclear depth charge formerly used by the United States
• Lulu Convention Centre, Thrissur, Kerala, India

See also

• Loulou (disambiguation)
• Lulu smoothing, a non-linear mathematical smoothing technique
• Lulu on the Bridge, a film by Paul Auster
• All pages with titles containing Lulu