Luce is an American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and Italian surname. It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, variant of Lucia and Lucy, meaning "light".
The English Luce surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. Alternative spellings and related names are: Luci, Lucy, Lucey, Lucie, Lucia, Luke.
Luce can refer to:
As a given name, Luce can refer to:
Luce (singer), real name Lucie Brunet, French singer, winner of Nouvelle Star in 2010
Luce Caponegro, Italian actress and TV presenter and a former pornographic actress, best known under the stage name Selen
Luce de Gast, Lord of the castle of Gast
Luce Dufault, a French-Canadian singer
Luce Fabbri, Italian anarchist writer
Luce Irigaray, Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist
As a surname, Luce can refer to:
A. A. Luce, Irish academic and cleric
Albert Luce, American industrialist
Claire Luce, American actress and dancer
Clare Boothe Luce, playwright and politician, wife of Henry Luce
Cyrus G. Luce, former governor of the U.S. state of Michigan
Damien Luce, French pianist
David Luce, British Admiral and First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy
Derrel Luce, American football linebacker
Don Luce, Canadian hockey player
R. Duncan Luce, American mathematician and psychologist
Edward Luce, British journalist
Edwin John Luce, British writer and journalist in Jèrriais, the Norman language of Jersey
Gordon H. Luce, an English scholar of Burma
Henry Luce, co-founder and editor of Time Magazine, philanthropist
John Luce, Scottish bishop of Dunkeld
John V. Luce, Irish classicist
Lew Luce, American football running back
Maximilien Luce, French painter
Mike Luce, American drummer
Moses A. Luce, American Sergeant in the Union Army
Renan Luce, a French singer and songwriter
Richard Luce, Baron Luce, British politician
Richard Luce (surgeon) (1867–1952) British medical doctor, army Major-General, MP for Derby
Robert Luce, American politician
Ron Luce, American evangelist
Stanford Luce, a translator of Jules Verne and Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Stephen Luce, U.S. Navy admiral
