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Louis (given name)

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Gender
  
Male

Word/name
  
French

Language(s)
  
Germanic

Alternative spelling
  
Louys

Louis (given name)

Pronunciation
  
UK /ˈluːi/US /ˈluːɪs/

Meaning
  
Famous warrior (Ludwig)

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".

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Variant forms

  • Afrikaans: Louis
  • Arabic: لويس‎‎
  • Albanian: Luigj, Ludovik
  • Ancient Germanic: Chlodovech, Clodovicus, Ludovicus, Clovis, Hludowig
  • Armenian: Լուդովիկ (Loudovik)
  • Basque: Aloxi, Koldobika, Luki, Koldo
  • Breton: Loeiz, Loïc
  • Bengali: লুইস (Luis/Luish), লুডউইগ (Luduig)
  • Bulgarian: Людовик (Lyudovik)
  • Catalan: Lluís
  • Chinese Simplified: 路易 (Lùyì)
  • Chinese Traditional: 路易 (Lùyì)
  • Croatian: Alojzije, Ljudevit, Ludovik, Lujo, Alojz
  • Czech: Ludvík, Alois, Luděk
  • Danish: Ludvig, Lodvig
  • Macedonian: Лудвиг (Ludvig), Луј (Luj), Људевит (Ljudevit)
  • Dutch: Lodewijk, Lode, Lowie
  • English: Louis, Louie, Lou, Lewis, Lewes, Lewie, Lew, Lewy or Luey; Ludovic, Lodvig, Lodovig
  • Esperanto: Ludoviko, Luĉjo
  • French: Louis, Ludovic
  • Galician: Lois, Luís
  • Georgian: ხლოდვიგი (Khlodvigi)
  • German: Ludwig, Alois, Aloysius, Lutz
  • Greek: Λουδοβίκος (Loudovíkos)
  • Hawaiian: Lui
  • Hindi: लुइस (Lu'isa)
  • Hungarian: Lajos, Alajos
  • Irish: Alaois, Alabhaois, Laoiseach, Lughaidh
  • Indonesian : Aloysius
  • Icelandic: Loðvík
  • Irish: Alaois
  • Italian: Aloisio, Luigi, Lodovico, Ludovico, Alvise, Gino, Luigino, Vico
  • Japanese: ルイ(Rui)
  • Korean: 루이스 (Luiseu)
  • Latin: Ludovicus, Aloysius
  • Latvian: Ludviķis, Ludis, Ludvigs
  • Lithuanian: Liudvikas, Aloyzas, Liudas
  • Medieval Occitan: Aloys, Aloysius
  • Norwegian: Ludvig, Lodve
  • Occitan: Loís
  • Persian: لوئیس
  • Polish: Ludwik, Alojzy
  • Portuguese: Luís, Aloísio, Aluísio, Ludovico (Luiz is an archaic form), Luisinho
  • Punjabi: ਲੂਯਿਸ (Lūyisa)
  • Romanian: Aloisiu, Ludovic
  • Russian: Людовик (Lyudovik)
  • Scottish Gaelic: Luthais
  • Sicilian: Luiggi, Ludovicu
  • Serbian: Луј (Luj), Људевит (Ljudevit)
  • Slovak: Ľudovít, Alojz
  • Slovene: Alojz, Lojze, Ljudevit, Luj, Alojzij, Ludvik
  • Spanish: Luis ([lu'is] or ['lwis]), Lucho
  • Swedish: Ludvig, Love, Ludde
  • Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis)
  • Telugu: లూయిస్ (Lūyis)
  • Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒)
  • Ukrainian: Людовик (Lyudovyk)
  • Welsh: Lewis

    • Feminine variants

  • Arabic: لويز
  • Belarusian: Луіза (Luiza)
  • Chinese Simplified: 路易丝 (Lùyìsī)
  • Chinese Traditional: 路易絲 (Lùyìsī)
  • Croatian: Alojzija
  • Danish: Lovise
  • Dutch: Louisa, Louise
  • English: Louisa, Lou, Louella, Lula, Luella
  • Estonian: Loviise
  • Finnish: Loviisa
  • French: Lou, Louise, Louisette
  • German: Aloisia, Louisa, Luise, Lulu
  • Greek: Λουίζα (Louíza)
  • Gujarati: લુઇસ (Lu'isa)
  • Hebrew: לואיז
  • Hindi: लुइस (Lu'isa)
  • Hungarian: Lujza
  • Italian: Ludovica, Luigia, Luisa, Gina, 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, Luisina, Luisita
  • Swedish: Lovisa
  • Tamil: லூயிஸ் ( Lūyis)
  • Telugu: లూయిస్ ( Lūyis)
  • Thai: หลุยส์ ( H̄luys̄̒)
  • Ukrainian: Луїза (Luyiza)
  • Urdu: لوئیس

    • 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

    • Politics

  • 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

    • Kings 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
  • 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

    • Other French royalty

  • 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

    • 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 Berg

    • Kings 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 1526

    • King of Portugal

  • Louis I of Portugal (1838–1889), succeeded to his older brother Peter V in 1861

    • King of Spain

  • Louis I of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy

    • Princes of Monaco

  • 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

    • Duke of Savoy

  • 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

    • Sports

  • 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

    • Others

  • 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

    • Fictional characters

  • 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

    • References

    Louis (given name) Wikipedia
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