Lulu

Lulu may refer to:

Companies

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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