Luca (given name)
Luca (pronounced "LOO-kah" also spelt Louca, Luka, Louka, Lucca) is a given name user predominantly for males, mainly in Italy, Germany and Romania. It is derived from the Latin name Lucas, which itself is possibly a translation of Ancient Greek Loukas (Λουκᾶς) meaning "(one) from Lucania" (an ancient region of southern Italy), or the name is derived from the Latin word "lux" (light). It may also come from the Latin word "lucus" meaning "sacred wood" (a cognate of lucere), or from another Greek word λύκος, lykos meaning "wolf". The name is common among Christians as a result of Luke the Evangelist. Similarly, the name Luka is also commonly found as a male given name in Eastern Europe and particularly the Balkans with the name sharing the same origin. Luca is also a Hungarian and Croatian female given name, but pronounced differently as "LOO-tsah" the equivalent of the English name Lucy.
List of people with the given name Luca
- Luca William Cosens - Geordie Bambino
- Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician and the establisher of accounting, and considered the father of double-entry accounting
- 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 Dalmonte, Italian basketball coach
- Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor
- Luca Giorgetti, English/Italian Entrepreneur
- Luca Napolitano, Italian singer
- 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
Luca Brecel, Belgian professional snooker player
- 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 Gurino, an antagonistic character in the video game Mafia II
List of people with the given name Luka
- Luka (singer), Brazilian singer
- Luka Jones (born Luka Yovetich), an American actor and comedian
- Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
- Luka Magnotta, an Canadian porn actor and murderer
- Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer
- Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
- Luka Svetec, Slovenian liberal conservative politician
- Luka Žorić, 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"