Lax

A lax is a salmon.

LAX as an acronym most commonly refers to Los Angeles International Airport in Southern California, United States

LAX or Lax may also refer to:

Within Los Angeles

 * Union Station (Los Angeles), Los Angeles' main train depot, whose Amtrak station code is "LAX"
 * The Port of Los Angeles, whose port identifier code is "LAX"

Other

 * Lax, Switzerland, a municipality of the canton of Valais
 * Lax Lake (disambiguation)
 * La Crosse, Wisconsin, a city on the Mississippi River

Sports

 * Los Angeles Xtreme, a former American football team
 * Lacrosse, a sport
 * The Latin American Xchange, a professional wrestling stable

Media and entertainment

 * LAX (album), the third studio album from rapper The Game
 * LAX (TV series), a 2004–05 television series set in Los Angeles International Airport
 * "LA X", the two-part sixth season 2010 premiere of the television show Lost
 * LAX, a night club at Luxor Las Vegas
 * "LAX", a song by the rapper Xzibit from Weapons of Mass Destruction
 * "LAX", a song by Snoop Dogg featuring Ice Cube from Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
 * "LAX", a song by Big D and the Kids Table on their album How It Goes
 * "LAX", a song by Jake Owen from American Love
 * "LAX", a song by Hawk Nelson from Crazy Love
 * L.A.X., a disco studio act who released two albums on Prelude Records

Science and linguistics

 * Laxative, a concoction that loosens the bowels
 * Lax pair, a type of differential equation a pair of matrices that solve a differential equation, named after Peter Lax
 * A lax vowel, one that lacks the quality of tenseness

People

 * Anneli Cahn Lax (1922–1999), American mathematician
 * Benjamin Lax (1915–2015), American physicist
 * Gaspar Lax (1487–1560), Spanish mathematician, logician, and philosopher
 * John Lax (1911–2001), American ice hockey player
 * Peter Lax (born 1926), Hungarian-American mathematician
 * Rick Lax (born 1982), American entertainer
 * L.A.X (musician) (born 1993), Nigerian recording artist Damilola Afolabi