Lublin (disambiguation)
Lublin is the name of a number of people, places and things, all named after the city of Lublin, Poland:
Communities
- Lublin, Wisconsin, United States
Sports teams
- Bystrzyca Lublin a women's handball team
- Start Lublin a men's basketball team
People
- Biernat of Lublin a 15th- and 16th-century Polish poet, fabulist and physician
- Meir Lublin a Polish rabbi from the 16th and 17th century (also called "The Maharam")
- Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin a Chassidic rabbi from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Political divisions
- Union of Lublin the 1569 act that united Poland and Lithuania as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Lublin Department a 19th-century division of the Duchy of Warsaw
- Lublin Voivodeship, an administrative region of eastern modern Poland
- Lublin (European Parliament constituency)
Vehicles
- Lublin truck - a 1950s Polish truck, built in Lublin
- Lublin van - made in Lublin by FSC
- Lublin - name of aircraft produced by Plage i Laśkiewicz, the first Polish aircraft manufacturer, including:
- Lublin R-VIII an early 20th-century Polish aircraft model
- Lublin R-XIII another 20th-century Polish aircraft model
Universities
- John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- Medical University of Lublin
- Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin
History
- Polish Committee of National Liberation, often called the Lublin Committee
- Nisko Plan, also Lublin plan, a reservation set up for Jews near Lublin by the Nazis during the Second World War
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