Lua

Lua or LUA may refer to:

Science and technology

• Lua (programming language), a lightweight, extensible programming language
• Least user access or least-privilege user account, in computer security (also LUA bug)
• Last universal ancestor, the hypothetical organism from which all other species of organisms descended

Ethnicity and language

• Lua people, an ethnic group in northern Laos
• Lawa people, an ethnic group in northern Thailand sometimes referred to as Lua
• Lua language (disambiguation), several languages (including Lua’)
• Luba-Lulua (ISO 639 code: lua), the Luba-Kasai language

Places

• Tenzing-Hillary Airport (IATA code), in Lukla, Nepal
• Lua, one of the islands in the Duff Islands group

People

• Lua (goddess), a Roman goddess
• Saint Lua (died c 609), an Irish saint from the late sixth century-early seventh century
• Lua Blanco (born 1987), Brazilian actress and singer
• Lua Getsinger (1871–1916), one of the first Western members of the Bahá'í Faith

Other uses

• Lua (company), a company specializing in communication for the mobile workforce
• Lua (martial art), a traditional Hawaiian martial art
• Lua (song), a single by Bright Eyes

See also

• Niellim language (lwaà), a Bua language spoken in southern Chad