Lys
Lys may refer to any of the following:
- Places
- Lys (river), a river in France and Belgium
- Lys (Dora Baltea), a stream of Aosta Valley in Italy
- Lys, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in France
- Lys (département), a département during the First French Empire, now in Belgium
- Les Lys, a Premier cru vineyard in Chablis
- Lys, an old orthography of Liss, Hampshire, England
- Aviation
- LYS, the IATA Airport Code for the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport at Lyon, France
- Sailing
- LYS, a sailing handicapping system
- Battles
- Battle of the Lys, a battle of World War I in France in the spring of 1918
- Fiction
- Lys is the name of a key town, a farming commune, in Arthur C. Clarke's book The City and the Stars.
- Lys is the name of a city in George R. R. Martin's series or novels A Song of Ice and Fire.
- Heraldry
- Fleur-de-lys or Fleur-de-lis, a stylized representation of a lily or iris, used in heraldry
- Science
- Lys is an abbreviation for the amino acid lysine
- People
- Francis John Lys (1863 – 1947), a British lecturer and academic administrator
- Jan Lys (circa 1590 - 1629), a German painter
- Lya Lys (1908 – 86), a German-born actress
- Lys Assia (born in 1926 in Rupperswil), a Swiss singer
- Lys Mouithys (born in 1985), a Congolese football player
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