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The name of various real and fictional people and animals, mainly female, and impersonal artefacts, including:

(i) Lucy (locally 'Dinkinesh', "you are marvelous" in Amharic, and officially AL 288-1), a collection of several hundred pieces of 3.2 mya fossilized bone representing 40% of a mature but young adult female Australopithecus afarensis. Named after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".

(ii) Lucy, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2021 to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

(iii) Lucy, an abbreviation of 'Lucifer'.

iv. Saint Lucy Lucia of Syracuse (c. 283 – 304 AD), also called Saint Lucia (Latin: Sancta Lucia) and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christianity. She is one of eight women (including the Virgin Mary) explicitly commemorated by Catholics in the Canon of the Mass. Her traditional feast day, known in Europe as Saint Lucy's Day, is observed by Western Christians on 13 December. Lucia of Syracuse was honored in the Middle Ages and remained a well-known saint in early modern England.
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