- Lys
Lys may refer to any of the following:
;Places
*TheLys River or Leie, a river in France and Belgium
*Lys (torrente) , 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, nowadays in Belgium
*Lys, an old orthography ofLiss , Hampshire, England
*LYS can also refer to a Local Yarn Shop for knitters or crocheters;Aviation
*"LYS", the IATA Airport Code forSaint-Exupéry International Airport near Lyon, France;Battles
*Battle of the Lys , a World War I battle in the spring of 1918;Fiction
* Lys is the name of a city in Arthur C. Clarke's bookThe City and the Stars .
* Lys is also the name of a city in George R. R. Martin's epic seriesA Song of Ice and Fire .;Heraldry
*Fleur-de-lys orFleur-de-lis , a stylized representation of a lily or iris, used in heraldry;Science
*"Lys" is an abbreviation for the amino acidlysine ;People
*Jan Lys (c1590-1629), a German painter
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