Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character and the main protagonist from The WB/CW television series One Tree Hill created by Mark Schwahn and portrayed by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is a talented basketball player and writer. He is rival to half-brother Nathan Scott and the relationship between the two has become one of the series’ cores, changing a lot and evolving to the point the two will become best friends and eventually begin considering each other true brothers. While striving for his dreams, he must balance his tumultuous relationships with his father, Dan Scott, and is initially the centre of a love triangle designed between him and best friends and female leads of the series Peyton Sawyer, whom he’s actually loved since childhood, and Brooke Davis. In the end, Peyton has turned out to be the one for him, no matter what, while their relationship has become another of the show’s central themes. The third female lead, Haley James, is his best friend since childhood.

One Tree Hill is an American drama television series created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB. After the series' third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW, and from September 27, 2006, the series was broadcast by The CW in the United States until the end of its run in 2012. The show is set in the fictional town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, and initially follows the lives of two half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who compete for positions on their school's basketball team and the drama that ensues from the brothers' romances.