Etymology
The name Louis (through the intermediate form Clovis) derives from the Frankish name ᚺᛚᛟᛞᛟᚹᛁᚷ (in runic alphabet) or *''Hlōdowik'' or *''Hlōdowig'' (inVariant forms
* * * * Ancient Germanic: ''Chlodovech, Clodovicus, Ludovicus, Clovis, Hludowig'' * (''Loudovik'') * , ''Koldo'' * , '' Loïc'' * * (''Lyudovik'') * * Chinese: 路易 (''Lùyì'') * , '' Alojz'' * , '' Alois, Luděk'' * , Lodvig * * , Lodvig, Lodovig, Lutwidge * , ''Luĉjo'' * * * * ka, ხლოდვიგი (''Khlodvigi''), ლუდვიგი (''ludvigi''), ლუდოვიკო(''ludoviko''), ლუი (''lui'') * , '' Aloysius, Lutz'' * (''Loudovíkos''), Λοΐζος(''Loizos'') * * Hindi: लुइस (''Lu'is'') * , ''Alajos'' * * * * , ''Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico'' * Japanese: ルイ(''Rui'') * Korean: 루이 (''Lui''), 루이스 (''Luiseu'') * * , ''Ludis, Ludvigs, Luijs, Luiss, Luī, Aloizs, Aloiss'' * , ''Aloyzas, Liudas'' * (''Ludvig''), Луј (''Luj''), Људевит ('' Ljudevit'') * Medieval Occitan: ''Aloys, Aloysius'' * , ''Lodve'' * Occitan: ''Loís'' * Persian: لویی * , ''Alojzy'' * (''Luiz'' is an archaic form), ''Luisinho'' * Provençal: Louïs, Louei, Louvis * Punjabi: ਲੂਯਿਸ (''Lūyis'') * * (''Lyudovik'') *Feminine variants
* Arabic: لويز * Belarusian: Луіза (Luiza) * Chinese Simplified: 路易丝 (Lùyìsī) * Chinese Traditional: 路易絲 (Lùyìsī) * Croatian: Alojzija * Danish: Louise * Dutch: Louisa, Louise, Ludovica * English: Louise, Louisa, Lou, Louella, Lula, Luella, Lulu, Lua * Estonian: Loviise * Finnish: Loviisa * French: Lou, Louise, Louisette * German: Aloisia, Louisa, Luise, Lulu, Luisa * Greek: Λουίζα (Louíza) * Gujarati: લુઇસ (Lu'isa) * Hebrew: לואיז * Hindi: लुइस (Lu'isa) * Hungarian: Lujza * Italian: Lodovica, Ludovica, Luigia, Luisa, Gigia, Gina, Ginetta, Luigina, Luisella * Japanese: ルイーザ (Ruīza), ルイ (Rui) * Kannada: ಲೂಯಿಸ್ (Lūyis) * Korean: 루이사 (Luisa) * Lithuanian: Liudvika * Maori: Ruiha * Macedonian: Лујза (Lujza), Лојза (Lojza) * Mongolian: Луиза (Luiza) * Nepali: लुइस (Lu'isa) * Norwegian: Lovise * Persian: لوئیس * Polish: Ludwika, Luiza * Portuguese: Luísa, Luiza * Romanian: Luiza * Serbian: Луиз (Luiz) * Slovak: Alojzia * Slovene: Alojzija * Spanish: Luisa, Luisana, Luisel, Luisina, Luisita * Swedish: Lovisa, Lova * Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis) * Telugu: లూయిస్ ( Lūyis) * Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒) * Ukrainian: Луїза (Luyiza) * Urdu: لوئیسArts and entertainment
* Louis (singer) (1952–2011), Serbian singer * Louis Akin (1868–1913), American painter and illustrator * Lou Albano (1933–2009), Italian wrestler, manager and actor * Louie Anderson (1953–2022), American stand-up comedian and actor * Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz musician * Louis C.K. (born 1967), American comedian * Louis Cachet (born 1973), Norwegian musician * Louis Calabro (1926–1991), Italian American orchestral composer * Louis Calhern (1895–1956), American actor * Louis Cheung (born 1980), Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor * Louis Clark (1947–2021), English musical arranger and keyboard player * Louis Cole (musician), American musician * Lou Costello (1906–1959), American comedian * Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), French artist and photographer * Louis Deland (1772–1823), Swedish ballet dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and ballet master * Lou Dobbs (1945–2024), CNN anchor * Lou Ferrigno (born 1951), American bodybuilder and actor * Louis Edwin Fry Sr. (1903–2000), American architect and professor * Louis Gallodier (1734–1803), ballet master and choreographer * Louis Gossett Jr. (1936–2024), American actor * Louis Hughes (1832–1913), American author * Louis Johnson (bassist) (1955–2015), American bass player and singer, member of The Brothers Johnson * Louis Jordan (1908–1975), pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter * Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor * Louis Jouvet (1887–1951), French actor and director * Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974), American architect * Louis Koo (born 1970), Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer * Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), American author of Western fiction * Louis Logic, American underground rapper * Louis Masreliez (1748–1810), French-born Swedish painter and interior designer * Louis Prima (1910–1978), Italian American jazz and swing musician and trumpeter * Louis Rukeyser (1933–2006), American economic commentator * Lou Diamond Phillips (born 1962), American actor * Lou Rawls (1933–2006), American musician * Lou Reed (1942–2013), American musician * Louis Sachar (born 1954), American author of children's books * Louis Spohr (1784–1859), German composer * Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), American architect * Louis Theroux (born 1970), British television broadcaster * Louis Tomlinson (born 1991), English singer-songwriter. * Louis Van Lint (1909–1986), Belgian artist * Louis Vuitton (designer) (1821–1892), French fashion designer * Louis Wain (1860–1936), British artist who drew cats * Louis Walsh (born 1952), Irish entertainment manager * Louis Yuen (born 1967), Hong Kong actorPolitics
* Louis A. Bloom (1900–1988), Pennsylvania State Representative and Judge * Louis Borno, President of Haiti during United States occupation of Haiti * Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader * Louis Philippe de Bombelles, Austrian count and diplomat * Louis Conradt, politician from Texas, investigated by ''To Catch a Predator'' * Louis DeJoy (born 1957), American businessman and current postmaster general of the United States * Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), French religious leader and politician * Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), Afro-American social leader * Louis De Geer (1818–1896), Sweden's first prime minister; baron, statesman and writer * Louis De Geer (1910–1987), Swedish diplomat * Gerhard Louis De Geer, known as Louis De Geer (1854–1935), Swedish prime minister * Louis "Louie" Gohmert (born 1953), Texas politician and U.S. Congressman * Louis Lucien Hunter, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician * Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo * Louis St. Laurent (1882–1973), Canadian politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada * Louis Lingg (1864–1887), German anarchist arrested after Haymarket Square bombing * Louis Michel (born 1947), Belgian politician * Louis Riel (1844–1885), Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis * Louis Eugène Roy (1861–1939), President of Haiti * Louis Waldman (1892–1982), Ukrainian-American lawyer and New York City politician * Louis L. Winston (1784–1824), justice of the Supreme Court of MississippiRoyalty
Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany
* Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death. * Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of the emperor Lothair I * Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal grandson of the emperor Louis II * Louis the German (Louis II), the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife * Louis the Child (Louis III), the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia * Louis IV, Holy Roman EmperorKings of France
* Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death * Louis the Stammerer, the eldest son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans * Louis III of France, king of Western Francia * Louis IV of France, king of France from 936 to 954 *Other French royalty
* Louis (948–), Prince of France and son of King Louis IV of France * Louis, Count of Évreux (1276–1319), Prince of France * Louis of France (1264–1276), Prince of France and heir apparent of France * Louis (1309–1328), Count of Chartres * Louis I, Count of Nevers (1272–1322), Count of Nevers and Rethel ** his son, Louis I, Count of Flanders (–1346), Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel * Louis I of Anjou (1339–1384), Prince of France and Duke of Anjou * Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais (1779–1808), "Louis Charles Alphonse Léodgard d'Orléans," Count of Beaujolais * Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279–1341), "Louis the Lame," Duke of Bourbon * Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (1337–1410), "Louis de Bourbon," "Louis the Good," Duke of Bourbon * Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397–1415), Dauphin of Viennois and Duke of Guyenne * Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (1814–1896), Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours * Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372–1407), Duke of Orléans and Touraine ** See also Louis d'Orléans * Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661–1711), Prince of France ** his son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), "Petit Dauphin," Prince of France * Louis Ferdinand (1729–1765), Dauphin of France ** his son, Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy (1751–1761), Dauphin of France * Louis I, Prince of Condé (1530–1569), "Louis I de Bourbon," Prince of Condé * Louis, Grand Condé (1621–1686), "Louis II de Bourbon," "The Great Condé," Prince of Condé * Louis III, Prince of Condé (1668–1710), Prince of Condé * Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678–1737) * Louis de La Blaume Le Blanc (1667–1683), "Louis de Bourbon," "Légitimé de France," Count of Vermandois, "Louis of Vermandois" * Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692–1740), "Louis Henri Joseph," "Louis IV," Prince de Condé ** his son, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736–1818), "Louis Joseph de Bourbon," "Louis V Joseph," Prince de Condé *** his son, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756–1830), "Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon," "Louis VI Henri," "Louis Henry II," Prince of Condé * Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661–1685), "Louis Armand de Bourbon," Prince of Conti * Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti (1695–1727), "Louis Armand de Bourbon," Prince of Conti ** his son, Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717–1776), "Louis François de Bourbon," "Louis François I," Prince of Conti *** his son, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734–1814), "Louis François Joseph de Bourbon," "Louis François II" Prince of Conti * Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478–1544), "Ludwig V. von der Pfalz" Count Palatine of the Rhine * Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781–1789), "Louis Joseph Xavier François" * Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725–1785) "Louis the Fat," Duke of Orléans, Prince of France ** his son, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747–1793), father of King Louis-Philippe I ** his great-grandson, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838–1894)Kings of Etruria
* Louis I of Etruria, King of Etruria from 1801 to 1803 * Louis II of Etruria, King from 1803–1807, also Duke of Lucca (1824–1847) and Duke of Parma (1847–1849)Kings of Holland
* Louis I Bonaparte, King of Holland from 1806 to 1810 * Louis II Bonaparte, King of Holland in 1810, also Grand Duke of BergKings of Hungary
* Louis the Great, (Louis I of Hungary) Apostolic King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342, King of Poland from 1370 * Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526King of Portugal
* Louis I of Portugal (1838–1889), succeeded to his older brother Peter V in 1861King of Spain
* Louis I of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of SavoyPrinces of Monaco
* Louis I, Prince of Monaco * Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949Princes of the United Kingdom
* Prince Louis of Wales (born 2018), son of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, grandson of King Charles IIIDukes and Kings of Bavaria
* Louis I, Duke of Bavaria * Louis II, Duke of Bavaria * Louis III, Duke of Bavaria * Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, also Duke of Bavaria * Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, also Margrave of Brandenburg as Louis I * Louis VI, Duke of Bavaria, also Margrave of Brandenburg as Louis II * Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria * Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria * Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria * Louis X, Duke of Bavaria * Louis I King of Bavaria from 1825 to 1848 * Louis II King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886, the ''Märchenkönig'' (Fairy tale king) * Louis III, Regent from 1912 to 1913, King from 1913 to 1918 (last king of Bavaria)Grand-Duke of Berg
* Louis, Grand Duke of Berg from 1809 to 1813, also King of Holland as Louis IIGrand-Dukes of Hesse
* Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse * Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse * Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse * Louis IV, Grand Duke of HesseDuke of Savoy
* Louis, Duke of Savoy, Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465Duke of Württemberg
* Louis Eugene, Duke of WürttembergLandgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
* Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-DarmstadtScience and innovation
* Louis Blériot (1872–1936), French aviator and inventor * Louis Braille (1809–1852), inventor of braille * Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate * Louis Ignarro (1941) American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate * Louis Leakey (1903–1972), British paleontologist * Louis Lliboutry (1922–2007), French-Chilean glaciologist * Louis Mink (1921–1983), American philosopher of history *Sports
* Louis Almond (born 1992), English footballer * Louis Babrow (1915–2004), South African rugby union player * Louis Baise (1927–2020), South African Olympic wrestler * Lou Boudreau (1917–2001), American, Hall of Fame baseball player and manager * Lou Brock (1939–2020), American baseball player * Louis Bullard (1956–2010), American football player * Louis Campbell (born 1979), American basketball player * Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company * Lou Creekmur (1927–2009), American football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1996 * Louis Unser (1896–1979), American race car driver and Hillclimb racer * Louis Delétraz (born 1997), Swiss race car driver * Louis Clarke (1901–77), American Olympic track champion * Louis Ford (footballer) (1914–1980), Welsh footballer * Louis van Gaal (born 1951), Dutch footballer and manager * Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player * Louis Jani (born 1957), Canadian judoka * Louis Kaplan (1901–1970), nicknamed "Kid Kaplan", Russian-born American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer * Louis King (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player * Louis Klotz (1921–2014), nicknamed "Red", American NBA basketball player and owner of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals * Louis Pilot (1940–2016), Luxembourgian footballer and manager * Louis Riddick (born 1969), American football broadcaster and former player * Louis Rubenstein (1861–1931), Canadian world champion Hall of Fame figure skater * Louis Saha (born 1978), French footballer * Louis Sharp (born 2007), New Zealand racing driver * Louis Smith (gymnast) (born 1989), English gymnastOthers
* Louis Edmund Blaze (1861–1951), Sri Lankan Burgher educationist, founder of Kingswood College, Kandy, Sri Lanka * Louis Botha (1862–1919), South African politician, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, one of the principal commanders of the Second Boer War * Louis Brouillard (1921–2018), American Catholic priest * Louis Congo (c. 1725), emancipated slave, appointed public executioner of Louisiana * Louis Le Duff, French billionaire businessman * Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during World War I * Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (born 1942), chairman and CEO of IBM * Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), American editor and publisher * Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River * Louis Kealoha, former Chief of the Honolulu Police Department and convicted felon * Louis-Frédéric Lescure (1904–1993), French industrialist * Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979), last Viceroy of India and first Governor-General of independent India, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II * Louis Palander (1842–1920), Swedish naval officer * Louis Pio (1841–1894), Danish political figure * Louis (parrot), parrot from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, well-provided for by owner's will after her death in 1949 * Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School * Louis Pope (b.1947), American businessman * Louis Ruquoy, Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army during the second part of the First World War * Louis Sabunji (1838–1931), Syriac Catholic priest and journalist * Louis B. Schwartz (1913–2003), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School * Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp (born 1994), heir apparent to earldom * Louis Vuitton (1821-1892), French fashion designer and businessman * Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor. * Louis Potgieter (1951-1991), German-South African lead singerFictional characters
* Dr. Louis Faraday, a character in the 1986 American science fiction adventure movie '' Flight of the Navigator'' * Louis, a character in the American sitcom television series '' Kate & Allie'' * Louis, a protagonist of the Japanese manga series '' Beastars'' * Louis de Pointe du Lac, character in the Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice * Louis the Alligator, a character from the animated film '' The Princess and the Frog'' * Louis Creed, the protagonist in Stephen King's 1983 novel ''Pet Sematary'' and its 1989 and 2019 film adaptations * Louie Duck, Disney character * Louis Gara, a character in the 2013 American black comedy crime movie '' Life of Crime'' * Louis Huang, character played by Randall Park in ''Fresh Off the Boat'' * Louis Litt, character played by Rick Hoffman in ''Suits'' * Louis Michaelson, a character played by Fred Savage in the 1986 American fantasy drama film '' The Boy Who Could Fly'' * Louis Tully, character played by Rick Moranis in ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Ghostbusters II'' * Louis Wu, character in the Ringworld books by Larry Niven * Louis, one of the protagonists of '' Left 4 Dead'' * Louis, a Knight from '' Fire Emblem: Engage'' * Louis Guiabern, the main antagonist of '' Metaphor: ReFantazio''See also
* Lewis * Lois * Louis (disambiguation) * Louise * Louie * Ludwig * LuisReferences
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