Lucas Schan (or Lukas Tschan, etc., active 1526–1558) was a natural history artist and wildfowler, known for his illustrations of birds for Conrad Gessner's Historia animalium, published at Zurich in 1551–58 and 1587. Gessner acknowledges Schan in the book with the words: Lucas Schan pictor Argentoratensis aves plurimas ad vivum nobis expressit, & quarundam historias quoque addidit, vir picturae simul et aucupii peritus(Lucas Schan of Argentoratum [Strasbourg] most vividly depicted birds, and in some places also added a description that captured the bird's behaviour).