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