Levy

Levy, Lévy or Levies may refer to:

People

Levy (surname), people with the surname Levy or Lévy
Levy Adcock (born 1988), American football player
Levy Barent Cohen (1747–1808), Dutch-born British financier and community worker
Levy Fidelix (1951–2021), Brazilian conservative politician, businessman and journalist
Levy Gerzberg (born 1945), Israeli-American entrepreneur, inventor, and business person
Levy Li (born 1987), Miss Malaysia Universe 2008–2009
Levy Mashiane (born 1996), South African footballer
Levy Matebo Omari (born 1989), Kenyan long-distance runner
Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer
Levy Middlebrooks (born 1966), American basketball player
Levy Mokgothu, South African footballer
Levy Mwanawasa (1948–2008), President of Zambia from 2002
Levy Nzoungou (born 1998), Congolese-French rugby player, playing in England
Levy Rozman (born 1995), American chess IM, coach, and content creator
Levy Sekgapane (born 1990), South African operatic tenor
Levy Lee Simon, American playwright, actor, director and screenwriter
Levy Solomons (1730–1792), British-Canadian merchant and fur trader
Levy Thorpe (1889–1935), English footballer
Levy Tran (born 1983), American actress and model
Levy Yakete (1965–2014), Central African Republic politician
Levy baronets, extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Places

Levy, Missouri, a community
Levy, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
Levy County, Florida
Levy Island, Crystal Sound, Antarctica

Military organizations

A levy (plural levies) is a military force raised ("levied") in a particular manner. In the Roman legion this typically means "farmer soldier" militia units raised by conscription that provided most of light and heavy infantry composition—most of which were of poor training and little fighting ability—but not always. In the British Empire, levies were units raised by local officials for local tasks, typically for local order and security.

Conscript forces
- Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
- Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
- Opolchenie, a Russian version of medieval conscription
- Levée en masse, mass conscript armies, especially that of Revolutionary France
- Volkssturm, a Nazi-German organized conscription during (last days of) WWII
Locally raised forces within the British Empire
- Aden Protectorate Levies (became Federal Regular Army of the South Arabian Federation, which then became the army of the People's Republic of South Yemen)
- Iraq Levies
- Kachin Levies
- Pakistan Levies
- Trucial Oman Levies (became Union Defence Force of the UAE)

Compulsory government measures

To force someone into military or national service by means of conscription
- Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
- Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
A legal action, where property of a judgment debtor is taken for public sale to satisfy a monetary judgment
An imposition of a fine
To take money in order to pay off a tax liability
To wage war
The statutory levy collected from bookmakers in the UK by the Horserace Betting Levy Board
Private copying levy, a tax on recordable media typically allocated to the developers of "content"
E-levy, proposed tax bill in Ghana

Businesses

Levy Restaurants, brand in the United States and Canada
Levy's (department store), former Arizona chain
Léon & Lévy, French makers of stereoscopic views and postcards
Henry S. Levy and Sons, former Brooklyn bakery
Levy & Klein, former architectural firm in Chicago
Michel Lévy Frères, Parisian publishing house

Other uses

3673 Levy, an asteroid
USS Levy (DE-162), destroyer escort