Louis ( /ˈluːi/ or /ˈluːɪs/; [lwi]) is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig (Modern German: Ludwig) and one of two English forms, the other being Lewis (/ˈluːɪs/). The Frankish name is composed of the words for "fame" (hlōd) and "warrior" (wīg) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".
Arts and entertainment
Louis (singer) (1952–2011), Serbian singer
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz musician
Louis C.K. (born 1967), American comedian
Louis Calabro (1926–1991), Italian American orchestral composer
Lou Costello (1906–1959), American comedian
Lou Dobbs (born 1945), CNN anchor
Lou Ferrigno (born 1951), American bodybuilder and actor
Louis Gallodier (1734–1803), ballet master and choreographer
Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936), American actor
Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), American architect
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 L'Amour (1908–1988), American author of Western fiction
Louis Logic, American underground rapper
Louis Prima, Italian American jazz and swing musician and trumpeteer
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 Szekely (born 1967), American stand-up comedian better known by his stage name, Louis C.K.
Louis Theroux (born 1970), British television broadcaster
Louis Tomlinson (born 1991), English pop singer; one-fourth of English-Irish boy band One Direction
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 Brandeis (1856–1941), American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader
Louis H. Bruni (born 1949), Texas politician and businessman
Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), French religious leader and politician
Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), Afro-American social leader
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
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 Emperor
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
Louis V of France, son of the Frankish King Lothair and his wife Emma
Louis VI of France, King of France from 1108 to 1137
Louis VII of France, King of France from 1137 to 1180
Louis VIII of France, King of France from 1223 to 1226
Louis IX of France, King of France from 1226 to 1270
Louis X of France, King of France from 1314 to 1316
Louis XI of France, King of France from 1461 to 1483
Louis XII of France, King of France from 1498 to 1515
Louis XIII of France, King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643
Louis XIV of France, King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715
Louis XV of France, King of France and Navarre from 1715 to 1774
Louis XVI of France, King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791
Louis XVII of France, the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette
Louis XVIII of France, King of France and Navarre from 1815 to 1824
Louis XIX of France, King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 before his abdication
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon
Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, Prince of Condé
Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, Prince of Condé
Louis III, Prince of Condé, Prince of Condé
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (also known as Louis IV, prince de Condé)
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé (also known as Louis V Joseph)
Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé (also known as Louis VI Henri)
Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti, Prince of Conti
Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Prince of Conti
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, Prince of Conti
Louis François II, Prince of Conti, Prince of Conti
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 Berg
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 1526
Louis I of Portugal (1838–1889), succeeded to his older brother Peter V in 1861
Louis I of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy
Louis I, Prince of Monaco
Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949
Dukes 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 II
Grand-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 Hesse
Louis, Duke of Savoy, Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465
Science 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 Leakey (1903–1972), British paleontologist
Louis Lliboutry, French-Chilean glaciologist
Louis Mink (1921-1983), American philosopher of history
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French microbiologist and chemist
Louis Wirth (1897–1952), American sociologist
Louis Ignarro (1941) American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Louis Babrow (1915–2004), South African rugby union player
Louis Baise (born 1927), South African Olympic wrestler
Lou Boudreau (1917–2001), American, Hall of Fame baseball player and manager
Lou Brock (born 1939), American baseball player
Louis Bullard (1956-2010), American football player
Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
Louis Deletraz (born 1997), Swiss race car driver
Louis Clarke (1901–77), American Olympic track champion
Louis Ford (footballer) (born 1914), 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 Klotz (born 1921), nicknamed "Red", American NBA basketball player and owner of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals
Louis Pilot (born 1940), Luxembourgian footballer and manager
Louis Rubenstein (1861–1931), Canadian world champion Hall of Fame figure skater
Louis Saha (born 1978), French footballer
Louis Smith (gymnast) (born 1989), English gymnast
Louis Congo (c. 1725), emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (born 1942), former Chairman and CEO of IBM corporation
Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
Louis (parrot), Famous parrot from Victoria, British Columbia, well-provided for by owner's will after her death in 1949
Louis de Pointe du Lac, in novels
Louis, mute swan in novel The Trumpet of the Swan
Louis, protagonist of Louis (comic)
Louis, character from the video game Left 4 Dead
Louis the Yard Teacher, in Sideways Stories From Wayside School (book)
Louis DiMucci, a character in Grease 2
Louis the Alligator, from The Princess and the Frog
Louis Tully, fictional character played by Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters & Ghostbusters II
Louis Wu, from the Ringworld-Universe
Louis Aduris, character from the webcomic Station
Louis Creed, main character in Stephen King's Pet Sematary
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