Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.

Luc Brisson is a Canadian historian of philosophy and anthropologist of antiquity. He is emeritus director of research at the CNRS in France, and is considered by some of his colleagues and students to be the greatest contemporary scholar on Platonism.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship with Voltaire.

Luc Deflo (27 February 1958 – 26 November 2018) was a Belgian writer.

André Robert Gustave Nepveu, known under his pseudonym Luc Durtain, was a French poet, novelist, journalist, playwright and a physician by profession.

Luc Plamondon, OC, CQ, is a French-Canadian lyricist and music executive. He is best known for his work on the musicals Starmania and Notre-Dame de Paris.

Luca Beltrami was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects.

Luca Di Fulvio, also known by the pen name Duke J. Blanco, was an Italian novelist and stage actor.

Luca Serianni was an Italian linguist and philologist.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia. His youth and speed of composition set him apart from other poets.