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Luis

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Gender
  
Male

Variant form(s)
  
Luís, Luiz

Meaning
  
Famous warrior

Pronunciation
  
Spanish: [ˈlwis] Portuguese: [ˈlwis] or [ˈlwiʃ]

Language(s)
  
Spanish, Portuguese (Luís), Galician

Related names
  
Louis, Lewis, Ludwig, Ludovic, Clovis, Alois

Luis (and its variant forms) is the Spanish, Portuguese (Luís), Galician, Aragonese form of the Germanic given name Hludowig and Chlodovech (modern German Ludwig). The Germanic name is composed of the words for "fame" (hlūd) and "warrior" (wīg) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".

Given name

Royalty of Portugal
  • Luís I of Portugal (1838–1889), Portuguese king
  • Infante Luís (1340-1340), first son of King Pedro I of Portugal
  • Prince Luís, Duke of Beja (1506–1555)
  • Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (1887–1908)
    • Sports
  • Luis Alberto González, Colombian cyclist
  • Luis Alberto Pérez, Nicaraguan boxer
  • Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Cuban runner
  • Luis Suárez, Uruguayan football player
  • Luis Amaranto Perea, Colombian football player
  • Luiz Antonio dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner
  • Luis Antonio Jiménez, Chilean football player
  • Luis Aragonés, Spanish football player and manager
  • Luiz Azeredo, Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Barrios, Peruvian basketball player
  • Luis Caballero, Paraguayan football player
  • Lluís Carreras, Spanish football player
  • Luis Antonio Castillo, Dominican baseball player
  • Luis Alberto Castillo, Dominican-American football player
  • Luis Cristaldo, Bolivian football player
  • Luis de Milán, Spanish composer
  • Luis Díaz, Venezuelan volleyball player
  • Luís Dutra Jr., Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Enrique Martínez García, Spanish football player and manager
  • Luis Ernesto José, Dominican boxer
  • Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican football goalkeeper
  • Luís Fabiano, Brazilian football player
  • Luis Fernando Suárez, Colombian football player and manager
  • Luís Figo, Portuguese football player
  • Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player and manager
  • Luis García Sanz, Spanish football player
  • Luis Galván, Argentine football player
  • Luis Gonzalez, Cuban-American baseball player
  • Luiz Gustavo, Brazilian football player
  • Luis Manuel Rodríguez, Cuban boxer
  • Luis Marín, Costa Rican football player
  • Luís Martins, Portuguese football player
  • Luis Monti, Italian and Argentine football player and manager
  • Luís Novo, Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • Luis Onmura, Brazilian judoka
  • Luis Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
  • Luis Palomino, Peruvian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Pizarro, Puerto Rican boxer
  • Luis Orlando Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Luis Rodríguez, Puerto Rican volleyball player Luis Rodríguez
  • Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player
  • Luis Salom, (1991 – 2016)Spanish Grand prix motorcycle racer
  • Luís Santos (water polo), Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
  • Luis Soares, Portuguese-French long-distance runner
  • Luis Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua
  • Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish football player and manager
  • Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
  • Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player
  • Luis Vasquez, American football player
  • Luis Villar, Argentine basketball player
  • Luis Villarroel, Venezuelan diver
  • Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player
    • Arts and entertainment
  • Luis Antonio Ramos, Puerto Rican actor
  • Luis Antonio Rivera, Puerto Rican television host
  • Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director
  • Lluís Claret, Andorran cellist
  • Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
  • Luis Enrique, Nicaraguan singer
  • Luis Fernando Vager, Puerto Rican musician and producer
  • Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer
  • Luis Gatica, Mexican-Chilean-Puerto Rican actor and singer
  • Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer
  • Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
  • Luis Roberto Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
  • Lluís Llach, Catalan composer
  • Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
  • Luis Oquendo, Cuban actor
  • Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Puerto Rican musician
  • Luis Segura, Dominican singer
  • Luis Vargas, Dominican singer
  • Luis Vigoreaux Lorenzana, Puerto Rican television host
  • Luis Vigoreaux Rivera, Puerto Rican television host
    • Politicians
  • Luis Alberto de Herrera, Uruguayan politician
  • Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo, former Governor of Puerto Rico (1969–1973)
  • Luis Alberto Lacalle, former president of Uruguay
  • Luis Ángel González Macchi, former president of Paraguay
  • Lluís Companys i Jover, Catalan politician
  • Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres, former president of Uruguay
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010
  • Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro, Paraguayan politician
  • Luis R. Esteves, Major General, Puerto Rican-American military leader
  • Luis Fortuño, Governor of Puerto Rico (2009–present)
  • Luis Gutiérrez, Puerto Rican-American political leader
  • Luis Mangalus Taruc, Filipino politician
  • Luis Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico
  • Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican politician and father of Luis Muñoz Marín
    • Writer
  • Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
  • Luis Lloréns Torres, Puerto Rican playwright and poet
  • Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
  • Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican author
    • Other
  • Luis F. Alvarez, Spanish-American physician (grandfather of Luis W. Alvarez)
  • Luis W. Álvarez, Spanish-American physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican religious leader
  • Luis E. Arreaga, Guatemalan-American diplomat
  • Luis Carrillo, Spanish colonial administrator
  • Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, Spanish explorer and conquistador
  • Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Catalan architect
  • Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste, Spanish nobleman
  • Luis Jacob, Peruvian-Canadian visual artists and photographer
  • Luis Muñoz de Guzmán, a Spanish colonial administrator
  • Luis González Vale, Puerto Rican historian
  • Luis Guinot, Puerto Rican-American diplomat
  • Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian communications minister
  • Luis Lliboutry, French-Chilean glaciologist
  • Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Passions
  • Luis Marden, American photographer
  • Luis Marileo Colipí, Mapuche chief
  • Luis Miranda Casañas, Puerto Rican businessman
  • Luis M. Rocha, American-Portuguese professor and scientist
  • Luis Née, explorer, botanist, discovered Coast Live Oak in California
  • Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the defunct Brazilian throne
  • Luis Ortega Álvarez, Spanish judge
  • Luis Padial, Puerto Rican military leader
  • Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant
  • Luis Rafael Sánchez, Puerto Rican playwright
  • Luis Sera, a character in Resident Evil 4
  • Luis Scott-Vargas, American Magic: the Gathering player
  • Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal

    • References

    Luis Wikipedia
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