Lulu
Lulu may refer to:
Companies
[edit]- LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer
- Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer
- Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia
- Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a Canadian athletic apparel company
Places
[edit]- Lulu, Florida, United States, an unincorporated community
- Lulu City, Colorado, United States, a mining town abandoned in 1885, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Lulu, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Lulu Bay, a bay on Navassa Island in the Caribbean
- Lulu Town, a town on Navassa Island in the Caribbean
- Lulu Island, an island which comprises most of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
- Al Lulu Island, also known as Lulu Island, a man-made island off the coast of Abu Dhabi island
- Lulu Roundabout, in Manama, Bahrain
Theatre, film, opera
[edit]- The two plays by Frank Wedekind whose protagonist is named Lulu:
- Earth Spirit (play) (Erdgeist, 1895)
- Pandora's Box (play) (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1904)
- Works based on them include:
- Lulu (opera), a 1935 opera by Alban Berg
- Lulu (1962 film), an Austrian film by Rolf Thiele
- Lulu (1980 film), a film directed by Walerian Borowczyk
- Pandora's Box (1929 film) directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on both Wedekind plays
And unrelated to the Wedekind story:
- Lulu (Kuhlau opera), an 1824 Danish opera by Friedrich Kuhlau based on same fairy tale as Mozart's Magic Flute
- Lulu (1914 film), an Italian silent film directed by Augusto Genina
- Lulu (1917 film), a 1917 German silent film
- Lulu (1918 film), a Hungarian silent film directed by Michael Curtiz
- Lulù (1953 film), an Italian film directed by Fernando Cerchio
- Lulu (1996 film), a Canadian film directed by Srinivas Krishna
- Lulu (2002 film), a French film starring Jean-Pierre Kalfon
- Lulu (2005 film), a Dutch film featuring Georgina Verbaan
- Lulu (2006 film), a German TV film featuring Matthias Schweighöfer
- Lulu (2014 film), an Argentine film
Music
[edit]
- Lulu (1973 album), by Scottish singer Lulu
- Lulu (1981 album), by Scottish singer Lulu
- Lulu Belle and Scotty, stage name of Myrtle Eleanor Cooper (1913–1999) (and Scott Greene Wiseman), a major country music act of the 1930s and 1940s
- Lulu (Trip Shakespeare album) (1991)
- Lulu (Lou Reed and Metallica album) (2011), based on the Wedekind plays
- LuLu and the TomCat, Canadian children's musical group
- Don't Bring Lulu, Dixieland jazz song (1925)
Fictional characters
[edit]- Lulu (Final Fantasy), a character in the Final Fantasy video game series
- Lulu Spencer, a character in the soap opera General Hospital
- Lulu Moppet, a character in the comic strip Little Lulu
- Lulu, a character in WarioWare Gold
- Lulu, a character played by Louise Brooks in the 1929 film Pandora's Box
- Lulu Teruno, alias of Tellu, one of the Death Busters from the Sailor Moon metaseries
- Lulu, a character in the television drama Gilmore Girls
- Lulu, a teddy bear in the Australian children's television series Bananas in Pyjamas
- Lulu, a Muppet monster in the children's television series Sesame Street
- Lulu, a character played by Ashley Argota in the Nickelodeon television series True Jackson, VP
People
[edit]Lulu is a given name or surname.
- Lu'lu', the Arabic given name
- Lulu (singer) (born 1948, as Marie MacDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer and actress
- Anolyn Lulu (born 1979), Vanuatuan table tennis player
- Elizabeth Michael, Tanzanian actress also known as Lulu
- Li Xiaolu or Lu Lu (born 1982), Chinese actress
- Lu Lu (badminton) (born 1990), Chinese badminton player
- Lulu Antariksa (born 1995), American actress
- Lulu Benstead (1891–1983), Australian opera singer
- Lulu Guinness (born 1960), British fashion accessory designer
- Lulu Haangala (born 1984), a Zambian television personality
- Lulu Huang Lu Zi Yin (born 1991), Taiwanese television personality, singer and actress
- Lulu Hurst (1869–1950), American stage magician
- Lulu James (born 1991/92), British electronic and soul singer
- Lulu Kennedy (born 1969), British fashion entrepreneur
- Lulu Platt (1863–1934), suffragist and first woman to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate
- Lulu Pullar (born 1998), Australian rules footballer and former soccer player
- Lulu Roman (born 1946), American comedian, singer, and author
- Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos (born 1953), Brazilian singer and guitarist
- Lulu Sun (born 2001), New Zealand tennis player
- Lulu Wang (novelist) (born 1960), Chinese-born writer living in the Netherlands
- Omar Lulu, Indian film director
- Paddy Roe, Australian writer known as Lulu
- Zhou Lulu (born 1988), Chinese female weightlifter and 2012 Olympic champion
- Lulu and Nana (born 2018), pseudonyms for twin Chinese girls, who are allegedly the first humans produced from embryos that were genome edited
- Lubjana Piovesana (born 1997), British and Austrian judoka often nicknamed Lulu
Other uses
[edit]- Lulu (app), a mobile app that lets women rate men
- Lulu (dog), guide dog of blind hiker Trevor Thomas
- Locally unwanted land use (LULU), a public-policy planning term
- LuLu International Shopping Mall in Kochi, Kerala, India
- Lulu Convention Centre, Thrissur, Kerala, India
- Mk 101 Lulu, a nuclear depth charge formerly used by the United States
See also
[edit]
- Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF)
- Loulou (disambiguation)
- Lulu smoothing, a non-linear mathematical smoothing technique
- Lulu on the Bridge, a film by Paul Auster
- Lula (disambiguation)
- Lulou
- Loulu
- All pages with titles containing Lulu
- All pages with titles beginning with Lulu
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