Lulu or Lu Lu 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, 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

<span class="anchor" id="Film"></span>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

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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
  • Lulu the Movie, a 2016 Singaporean film written, directed by and starring Michelle Chong

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

People

  • Lulu (name)
  • Lu'lu', the Arabic given name
  • Lulu (singer) (born 1948), Scottish singer and actress
  • Elizabeth Michael, Tanzanian actress also known as Lulu
  • Li Xiaolu (born 1982), Chinese actress known as Lu Lu
  • 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 known as Lulu
  • Lu Lu (badminton) (born 1990), Chinese badminton player
  • Paddy Roe, Australian writer known as Lulu
  • Lulu Kennedy, (born 1969), British fashion entrepreneur

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