Lee Explained

Lee may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Lee (2007 film), Tamil-language sports action film
• Lee (2017 film), Kannada-language action film
• Lee (2023 film), biographical drama about Lee Miller, American photojournalist
• Lee (novel), by Tito Perdue, about an angry and well-read septuagenarian
• "Lee", a 1973 single by The Detroit Emeralds
• "Lee", a 2001 song by Tenacious D from their eponymous album

Businesses

Finance

• Thomas H. Lee Partners, an American private equity firm founded in 1974
  • Lee Equity Partners, a breakaway firm founded in 2006

Manufacturers

• Lee Tires, a division of Goodyear
• Lee Filters, a maker of lighting filters

Other businesses

• Lee (jeans), an American clothing brand
• Lee Enterprises, an American media company (NYSE: LEE)
• Lee Data, a defunct American computer company

Education

• Lee College, Bayton, Texas, United States
• Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, US

Meteorology

• List of storms named Lee
• Lee wave, atmospheric oscillations as the wind moves over mountains
• Lee side, the side of a ship, boat, or island that is not exposed to the wind

Names

Given name

• Lee (given name), a given name in English

Surname

• Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee:
  • Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi Chinese: 李), a common Chinese surname
  • Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi Chinese: 利), a Chinese surname
• Lý (Vietnamese surname) or Lí (李), a common Vietnamese surname
• Lee (Korean surname) or Rhee or Yi (Hanja Chinese: 李, Hangul Korean: 리 or Korean: 이), a common Korean surname
• Lee (English surname), a common English surname
• List of people with surname Lee
  • List of people with surname Li
  • List of people with the Korean family name Lee

Places

See also: Lee Township (disambiguation).

United Kingdom

• Lee, Devon
• Lee, Hampshire
• Lee, London
• Lee, Mull, a location in Argyll and Bute
• Lee, Northumberland, a location
• Lee, Shropshire, a location
• Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire
• Lee-over-Sands, Essex
• Lee District (Metropolis)
• The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee
• River Lee — alternative name for River Lea

United States

See also: Lee County (disambiguation).

• Lee, California
• Lee, Florida
• Lee, Illinois
• Lee, Indiana
• Lee, Maine
• Lee, Massachusetts, a New England town
  • Lee (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town
• Lee, Nevada
• Lee, New Hampshire
• Lee, New York, a town
  • Lee (hamlet), New York, within the town of Lee
• Lees Station, Tennessee, also called Lee
• Lee Peak, in Missouri
• Mount Lee, in California
• Van Aken–Lee (RTA Rapid Transit station) (signed "Lee – Van Aken"), a station on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio

Elsewhere

• Lée, southwestern France
• Lee, Uttarakhand, India
• Electoral district of Lee, in South Australia
• River Lee, in Ireland
• Lee (Vechte), a river in Germany

Vehicles

• Lee side, a ship or boat's downwind side
• M3 Lee, an American WWII tank

See also

• LEA (disambiguation)
• Leah (disambiguation)
• Le (disambiguation)
• LEE (disambiguation)
• Lees (disambiguation)
• Lee's (disambiguation)
• Leigh (disambiguation)
• Li (disambiguation)
• Ly (disambiguation)
• Justice Lee (disambiguation)