Lubbock (disambiguation)
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Lubbock can refer to:
- A city and county in Texas and terms related to them
- * Lubbock, Texas (the city) or Lubbock County, Texas (the county)
- ** Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport
- ** Lubbock Christian University
- ** Lubbock High School
- ** Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
- ** Lubbock Lake Landmark
- ** the Lubbock Tornado, an F5 tornado that occurred in the city on May 11, 1970
- ** the Lubbock sound, a genre of American music that began with the popularity of Lubbock native Buddy Holly
- ** the Lubbock Lights
- ** the Lubbock Cotton Kings, a minor-league ice hockey team
- ** the Lubbock Gunslingers, an arena football team
- A surname that can refer to the following people:
- * Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate Colonel and Texas Ranger for whom the city and county are named
- * Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas during the American Civil War and brother of Thomas
- * Sir John William Lubbock, an English banker, mathematician and astronomer
- ** Lubbock (crater), a small lunar crater on the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis that was named after Sir John William Lubbock
- * Sir John Lubbock, the 1st Lord and Baron Avebury, an English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist (son of Sir John William Lubbock)
- * Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords
- * Jeremy Lubbock, a Grammy Award-winning composer
- * the Lubbock family, around which the situation comedy Just the Ten of Us focused
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