Luca (given name)
Luca (or Luka) is a common male given name derived from Latin name Lucas, translation of Ancient Greek Loukas (Λουκᾶς). Luca and Luka are cognate of name Luke. Luca is common in Italian, Romanian, and Maltese.[1] Luka is encountered in Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Montenegrin and Croatian.[2] The name is common among Christians as a result of Luke the Evangelist.
Luca is also Hungarian and Croatian female given name, the equivalent of the English Lucy.
List of people with the given name Luca
- Luca Badr, Egyptian football player
- Luca Belcastro, Italian composer
- Luca Caputi, Canadian ice hockey player
- Luca Caragiale, Romanian poet
- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, President of Ferrari
- Luca della Robbia, Sculptor
- Luca Napolitano, Italian singer
- Luca Pacioli, considered the father of double-entry accounting
- Luca Pasqualino, English actor, credited as Luke Pasqualino
- Luca "Lazylegz" Patuelli, Canadian hip hop dancer
- Luca Prodan, Argentine musician
- Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
- Luca Toni, Italian football player
- Luca Turilli, Italian musician and composer
- Fictional people
- Luca, a minor character in the video game Final Fantasy IV
- Luca Blight, one of the major antagonists in the video game Suikoden II
- Luca Brasi, a fictional character from the film and novel The Godfather
- Luca Raregroove, a major enemy in the Japanese manga–anime series Rave Master
- Luca Fenrir, a character in the otome game "Once Upon a Love Tale"
- Luca, an octopus from the Dreamworks movie Shark Tale
List of people with the given name Luka
- Luka (singer), Brazilian singer
- Luka Jones (born Luka Yovetich), an American actor and comedian
- Luka Magnotta, alleged Canadian murderer, animal abuser, prostitute and bisexual pornographic actor
- Luka Modrić, a Croatian football player
- Luka Svetec, Slovenian liberal conservative politician
- Luka Zahović, Slovenian footballer
- Luka Žorić, a Croatian basketball player
- Luka, the seventeenth King of Kirati.
- Fictional people
- Luka Kovač, a character in the television series ER
- Luka, a character in the video game Bayonetta
- Luka, a character in the manga/anime Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru
- Luka Megurine, a female voicebank for Vocaloid 2
- Luka Nikomi, one of the two protagonists of the novel Djinn's Artifice
- The protagonist of the 1987 Suzanne Vega song "Luka"
See also
- Luca (disambiguation)
- Luca (surname)
- Luka (disambiguation)
- Luke
- Lucas (disambiguation)