Luca (surname)
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Luca, De Luca and Di Luca are common Italian surnames, derived from Latin name Lucas
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Luca may refer to:
Lucas
Lucas is the Latin form of the Greek name Loukas , and it's a common name in many modern languages.Lucas may refer to several things.-Real:*Lucas Barrios, Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Borussia Dortmund...
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Luca may refer to:
People
- Ciro de Luca, Austrian comedian and actor
- Danilo Di LucaDanilo Di LucaDanilo Di Luca is an Italian professional road racing cyclist who rode for numerous UCI Professional Continental teams throughout his career including Liquigas-Bianchi and . He holds victories in the Giro di Lombardia in 2001, the 2005 UCI ProTour and won both the Giro d'Italia and the spring...
, Italian cyclist - Erri De LucaErri De LucaErri De Luca is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been defined as "the writer of the decade" by the Corriere della Sera literature critic Giorgio De Rienzo.-Biography:...
, Italian author - Fănică LucaFanica LucaFănică Luca was a Romani-Romanian musician and a pan pipe virtuoso, who was the first to make this instrument popular outside his own country....
, Romanian musician - Frank DelucaFrank DelucaFrank DeLuca was an Italian-American mobster who helped control the smuggling and distribution of narcotics in Kansas City, Missouri, for almost four decades....
, Italian-American mobster - Chiara de LucaChiara de Luca-Biography:De Luca grew up in Italy, France and the United States and received a degree in dramatic arts from Tufts University in Boston.She played a leading role in the film Facechasers directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel...
, French-Italian actress - Fred De Luca, US-American entrepreneur
- Gherasim LucaGherasim LucaGherasim Luca was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet. He is frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.- Biography :...
, Romanian poet and painter - Giorgio DeLucaGiorgio DeLucaGiorgio DeLuca is a founder of the gourmet grocery store Dean & DeLuca with his partner Joel Dean. Before that, DeLuca owned a cheese shop on Prince Street in New York City which he opened in 1973, after a brief career teaching history in the city's public school system.DeLuca is now the owner of...
, US-American entrepreneur - Giuseppe de LucaGiuseppe de LucaGiuseppe De Luca , was a famous Italian baritone who achieved his greatest triumphs at the New York Metropolitan Opera...
, Italian baritone - Guerrino De LucaGuerrino De LucaGuerrino De Luca is the chairman of Logitech's board of directors. He served as President and CEO from 1998 to 2008.Originally from Italy, he holds a degree in Engineering from the University of Rome, and now resides in San Francisco. He has two daughters, Ottavia and Chiara, by his former wife...
, Italian-US-American entrepreneur - Jeff De LucaJeff De LucaJeff De Luca is a global information technology strategist and an author in the field of software development methodology. He is considered the primary architect of Feature Driven Development circa 1999 [^JDLBIO], a lightweight methodology for developing computer software with reduced management...
, US-American software-developer - Joseph DelucaJoseph DelucaJoseph DeLuca was an Italian-American mobster who controlled the smuggling and distribution of narcotics with his brother Frank Deluca in Kansas City, Missouri for almost four decades....
, Italian-American mobster - Libero de LucaLibero de LucaLibero De Luca is an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.- Life and career :De Luca was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and studied voice at the Zurich Coservatory with Alfredo Cairati...
, Swiss tenor - Loes LucaLoes LucaLouise "Loes" Diana Wilhelmina Catharina Luca is a Dutch actress, singer and comedian. She began her career in the 1980s as a stage actress and singer in various musicals. She later started a successful film and television career, starring in Spetters, Het meisje met het rode haar, De...
, Dutch actress and comedian - Michael DeLucaMichael DeLucaMichael De Luca is an American movie producer and screenwriter.-Life and career:De Luca was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a worker at ConEdison. De Luca was exposed to motion pictures by his father, who would sneak the youngster into movie theaters...
, American movie producer and screenwriter - Nick De LucaNick De LucaNick De Luca is a Scottish internationalist professional rugby union player. He currently plays club rugby for Edinburgh Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12.-Club rugby:...
, Scottish rugby union player - Olmstead LucaOlmstead LucaOlmstead Luca was a pianist and composer. He composed the music for All Hail, Liberia, Hail!. He came from a bi-racial family that had immigrated to Liberia from the US South.- Web sources :...
, Americo-Liberian composer - Vasile LucaVasile LucaVasile Luca was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s...
, Romanian politician