Luca (pronounced "LOO-kah" also spelt Louca, Luka, Louka, Lucca) is a given name used predominantly for males, mainly in Italy, Germany and Romania. It is derived from the Latin name Lucas, which itself is derived from the Latin word "lux" (light). It may also come from the Latin word "lucus" meaning "sacred wood" (a cognate of lucere). 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.
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 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
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
Luka (singer), Brazilian singer
Luka Jones (born Luka Yovetich), an American actor and comedian
Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
Luka Magnotta, a 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
The protagonist of the 1987 Suzanne Vega song "Luka"
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