Lea

Lea or LEA may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Lea River, Tasmania, Australia
• Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows
• RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA"

England

• Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish
• Lea, Derbyshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway
• Lea, Devon, a
• Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish
• Lea, Lancashire, a village
• Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish
• Lea, Lydham, a in Shropshire
• Lea, Pontesbury, a in Shropshire
• Lea, Wiltshire, a village
• River Lea, a tributary of the Thames
• Lea Bridge, Greater London, the area around the bridge over the River Lea

Elsewhere

• Lea, a river in Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
• Lea County, New Mexico, United States

People and fictional characters

• Lea (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Lea (surname), a list of people
• Helena Nordheim (1903–1943), Dutch Olympic champion gymnast nicknamed "Lea"
• Lea (musician) (stylized as LEA), stage name of German singer-songwriter and keyboardist Lea-Marie Becker (born 1992)

Arts and entertainment

• Liberian Entertainment Awards (LEA), an annual Liberian music awards show
• Léa (film), a 2011 French film
• Lea (album), a 1988 studio album by Lea Salonga
• Lea (film), a 1997 Czech drama directed by Ivan Fíla
• Lea (play), a 1869 Finnish play by Aleksis Kivi
• "Lea", a song from the 1986 album Fahrenheit by Toto

Education

• Lea College, Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States, a private liberal arts college from 1966 to 1973
• Local education authority, a public body in the United Kingdom

Government and politics

• Labour Electoral Association, British Liberal-Labour organisation
• Law enforcement agency, or law enforcement authority, in North America
• Local electoral area, a district for local elections in Ireland

Military

• Operation Léa, a French Union operation during the First Indochina War
• USS Lea (DD-118), a destroyer that served during both world wars

Technology

• Late embryogenesis abundant proteins (LEA proteins), proteins that protect against protein aggregation due to dehydration or osmotic stress
• LEA (cipher), a lightweight block cipher
• Load effective address, a computer instruction
• Length extension attack, a cryptographic attack
• LEA, a General Motors car engine; see GM Ecotec engine
• LEA, a Honda car engine; see Honda L engine

Codes and symbols

• LEA, Lear Corporation New York Stock Exchange symbol
• lea, ISO 639-3 code of Shabunda Lega language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• LEA, Leagrave railway station's United Kingdom station code

Other uses

• Lea baronets, a title in the baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Lea (katydid), a genus of katydid
• LEA proteins (Late Embryogenesis Abundant proteins)
• Lea test or LEA Vision Test System, a series of pediatric vision tests
• Lea (unit), a former British unit of length
• Lea (magazine), a German weekly women's magazine

See also

• Small River Lea, a tributary of the River Lea
• Leah (disambiguation)
• Lee (disambiguation)
• Leigh (disambiguation)
• LEAS (disambiguation)