Lee

Lee may refer to:

• A place protected from wind or other environmental hazards by an intervening object. See leeward (at sea) and lee waves (on land).

Names

• Lee (English name), nn English-speaking countries, a common family name and given name
• A Mandarin Chinese transliteration of the common Chinese family name 李; also commonly transliterated as Li (Chinese name); lee (cantonese name in Hong Kong) or Lei (Chinese name in Macau).
• The second most common Korean family name (after Kim). See Lee (Korean name).

Geographical names

Australia

• Electoral district of Lee, a state electoral district in South Australia.

France

• A commune of Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France. See Lee (France).

Ireland

• River Lee, in County Cork (Irish: Laoi)
• River Lee, in County Kerry (Irish: Lí)

United Kingdom

• Lee, Argyll & Bute
• Lee, Buckinghamshire
• Lee, Devon
• Lee, Hampshire
• Lee, Lancashire
• Lee, London
• Lee, Shropshire
• River Lee also spelled Lea

United States

• Lee, Massachusetts
• Lee, New Hampshire
• Lee Township, Michigan
• Lee Township, Minnesota
• Lee, New York
• Various counties named Lee County
• Various places named Fort Lee
• Various places named Leesburg
• Various places named Leesville

People

First Name

• Lee Hancock, American journalist
• Lee Hsien Loong, third Prime Minister of Singapore; Current Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004
• Lee Majors, American actor
• Lee Marvin, American actor
• Lee Harvey Oswald, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy
• Lee Scratch Perry, Dub musician
• Lee Trevino, American professional golfer
• Lee Wells, artist and founding member of IFAC (International Fine Arts Consortium)
• Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister of Singapore; Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, one of the most influential leaders in Asia

Middle Name

• Terry Lee Farrell, American actress
• Robin Lee Graham, man who sailed around the world as a teenager
• Majel Lee Hundec, American actress and widow of television director/producer/writer Gene Roddenberry
• Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
• David Lee Roth, American rock music singer
• Grace Lee Whitney, American actress

Last Name

• Alexander Lee, historian and political theorist, co-author of The End of Politics
• Ann Lee, leader of the Shaker movement
• Ann Lee, English pop singer ("Two Times")
• Bernard Lee, actor best known for portraying M in the James Bond films
• Bill Lee, several people: baseball players, musician, TV producer, army officer, writer
• Brandon Lee, actor
• Bruce Lee, late Chinese American martial artist and actor.
• Charles Lee, a general in the American Revolutionary War
• Charles Lee, United States Attorney General
• Christopher Lee, American actor
• Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Robert E. Lee, general, diplomat, Governor of Virginia
• Geddy Lee, American rock music singer
• Harper Lee, American novelist (b. 1926)
• Various people called Henry Lee
• James Lee, Canadian politician
• Jim Lee, Korean American comic book artist and publisher
• Jim Lee, Contemporary musician & painter born in Ohio.
• John Lee, several people
• Kai-Fu Lee, American information technology executive and founding president of Google China
• Peggy Lee, singer
• Ralph Lee, puppet-maker
• Richard R. Lee, San Francisco Bay Area TV producer, director and host for Sidewalks Entertainment
• Robert E. Lee, Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Sophie Lee, Australian actress
• Spike Lee, African-American movie director.
• Stan Lee, American writer and editor of comic books
• Stephen Lee, an English professional snooker player
• Lee Teng-hui, first democratically elected President of the Republic of China
• Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of World Wide Web Consortium
• William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, son of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate cavalry general, planter, member of the U.S. Congress.

Other

• A jeans company: see Lee (Jeans)
• A auto parts company, making Constant Velocity Joint and cv alex: see Lee (Honglee)
• A song by Tenacious D on their self-titled album
• Also, the name is on the list of tropical cyclone names for storms in the Atlantic Ocean and was the name of the twelfth storm in 2005.

See also Leigh