Lea
# 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 location
* Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish
* Lea, Lancashire, a village
* Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish
* Lea, Lydham, a location in Shropshire
* Lea, Pontesbury, a location 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", 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

* 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
