Lucas

American

[loo-kuhs] / ˈlu kəs /

noun

George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
a male given name, form of Luke.

Lucas British

/ ˈluːkəs /

noun

George. born 1944, US film director, producer, and writer of screenplays. Films include American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977) and its prequels The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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In 2023, the Rams replaced Brett Maher during the season with Lucas Havrisik, and then eventually re-signed Maher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He is allergic to the presumption that anyone, including the Fed, can fine-tune the economy, and invoked the Lucas critique at one of his first news conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The other two members are the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Andrea Lucas, and acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, Keith Sonderling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

This show looks at examples of that creative world—from photographs by Juergen Teller and David Sims, to artworks by Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, to ensembles by Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mr. Lucas didn’t have as much land as my great-grandmother, but he had a few fruit trees and pecan trees on his property.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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