Louis (given name)

Variant forms

• Louis
• لويس and لؤي
• Luigj, Ludovik
• Ancient Germanic: Chlodovech, Clodovicus, Ludovicus, Clovis, Hludowig
• Լուդովիկ
• Aloxi, Koldobika, Luki, Koldo
• Loeiz, Loïc
• translit=Luis/Luish, Luduig
• Людовик
• Lluís
• Chinese Simplified: 路易
• Chinese Traditional: 路易
• Ljudevit, Ludovik, Luj, Alojz
• Ludvík, Alois, Luděk
• Ludvig, Lodvig
• Лудвиг, Луј, Људевит
• Lodewijk, Lode, Lodevicus, Loe, Louis, Lowie, Lowieke, Ludo, Ludovicus
• Louie, Lou, Lodvig, Lodovig
• Ludoviko, Luĉjo
• Clovis
• Lois, Luis
• ხლოდვიგი, ლუდვიგი, ლუდოვიკო, ლუი
• Ludwig, Alois, Aloysius, Lutz
• Λουδοβίκος
• Lui
• Hindi: लुइस
• Lajos, Alajos
• Alaois, Alabhaois, Laoiseach, Lughaidh
• Aloysius, Louis, Ludowikus
• Loðvík
• Luigi, Lodovico, Ludovico, Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico
• Japanese: ルイ
• Korean: 루이스
• Ludovicus, Aloysius
• Ludviķis, Ludis, Ludvigs, Luijs, Luiss, Luī, Aloizs, Aloiss
• Liudvikas, Aloyzas, Liudas
• Medieval Occitan: Aloys, Aloysius
• Ludvig, Lodve
• Occitan: Loís
• Persian: لوئیس
• Ludwik, Alojzy
• Luís, Aloísio, Aluísio, Ludovico, Luisinho
• Punjabi: ਲੂਯਿਸ
• Aloisiu, Ludovic
• Людовик
• Scottish Gaelic: Luthais
• Sicilian: Luiggi, Ludovicu
• Луј, Људевит
• Ľudovít, Alojz
• Ljudevit, Luj, Alojzij, Ludvik
• Luis, Ludovico
• Ludvig, Love, Ludde
• Tamil: லூயிஸ்
• Telugu: లూయిస్
• Thai: หลุยส์
• Людовик
• Welsh: Lewis

  Feminine variants

• Arabic: لويز
• Belarusian: Луіза
• Chinese Simplified: 路易丝
• Chinese Traditional: 路易絲
• Croatian: Alojzija
• Danish: Lovise
• Dutch: Louisa, Louise, Ludovica
• English: Louisa, Lou, Louella, Lula, Luella
• Estonian: Loviise
• Finnish: Loviisa
• French: Lou, Louise, Louisette
• German: Aloisia, Louisa, Luise, Lulu, Luisa
• Greek: Λουίζα
• Gujarati: લુઇસ
• Hebrew: לואיז
• Hindi: लुइस
• Hungarian: Lujza
• Italian: Lodovica, Ludovica, Luigia, Luisa, Gigia, Gina, Ginetta, Luigina, Luisella
• Japanese: ルイーザ, ルイ
• Kannada: ಲೂಯಿಸ್
• Korean: 루이사
• Lithuanian: Liudvika
• Maori: Ruiha
• Macedonian: Лујза, Лојза
• Mongolian: Луиза
• Nepali: लुइस
• Norwegian: Lovise
• Persian: لوئیس
• Polish: Ludwika, Luiza
• Portuguese: Luísa, Luiza
• Romanian: Luiza
• Serbian: Луиз
• Slovak: Alojzia
• Slovene: Alojzija
• Spanish: Luisa, Luisina, Luisita
• Swedish: Lovisa, Lova
• Tamil: லூயிஸ்
• Telugu: లూయిస్
• Thai: หลุยส์
• Ukrainian: Луїза
• Urdu: لوئیس

  Arts and entertainment

• Louis , Serbian singer
• Lou Albano, Italian wrestler, manager and actor
• Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
• Louis C.K., American comedian
• Louis Cachet, Norwegian musician
• Louis Calabro, Italian American orchestral composer
• Louis Calhern, American actor
• Louis Clark, English musical arranger and keyboard player
• Lou Costello, American comedian
• Louis Daguerre, French artist and photographer
• Louis Deland, Swedish ballet dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and ballet master
• Lou Dobbs, CNN anchor
• Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
• Louis Gallodier, ballet master and choreographer
• Louis Gossett, Jr., American actor
• Louis Johnson , American bass player and singer, member of The Brothers Johnson
• Louis Jordan, pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter
• Louis Jourdan, French actor
• Louis Jouvet, French actor and director
• Louis I. Kahn, American architect
• Louis L'Amour, American author of Western fiction
• Louis Logic, American underground rapper
• Louis Masreliez, French-born Swedish painter and interior designer
• Louis Prima, Italian American jazz and swing musician and trumpeter
• Louis Rukeyser, American economic commentator
• Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• Lou Rawls, American musician
• Lou Reed, American musician
• Louis Sachar, American author of children's books
• Louis Spohr, German composer
• Louis Sullivan, American architect
• Louis Theroux, British television broadcaster
• Louis Tomlinson, English pop singer; one-fourth of English-Irish boy band One Direction
• Louis Van Lint, Belgian artist
• Louis Vuitton , French fashion designer
• Louis Wain, British artist who drew cats
• Louis Walsh, Irish entertainment manager

  Politics

• Louis Brandeis, American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader
• Louis Philippe de Bombelles, Austrian count and diplomat
• Louis H. Bruni, Texas politician and businessman
• Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, French religious leader and politician
• Louis Farrakhan, Afro-American social leader
• Louis De Geer, Sweden's first prime minister; baron, statesman and writer
• Louis De Geer, Swedish prime minister
• Louis St. Laurent, Canadian politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada
• Louis Lingg, German anarchist arrested after Haymarket Square bombing
• Louis Michel, Belgian politician
• Louis Riel, Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis

  Royalty

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, the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
• Louis the Child, 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
• Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé
• Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé
• 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 and Duke of Parma

  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, 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, 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

  Princes of the United Kingdom

• Prince Louis of Cambridge, third child and second son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.

  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
• Louis III, Regent from 1912 to 1913, King from 1913 to 1918

  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

  Duke of Württemberg

• Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

  Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

• Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

  Science and innovation

• Louis Blériot, French aviator and inventor
• Louis Braille, inventor of braille
• Louis de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• Louis Ignarro American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate
• Louis Leakey, British paleontologist
• Louis Lliboutry, French-Chilean glaciologist
• Louis Mink, American philosopher of history
• Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist, discoverer of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization
• Louis Schoonhoven, Dutch entomologist
• Louis Wirth, American sociologist

  Sports

• Louis Almond, English footballer
• Louis Babrow, South African rugby union player
• Louis Baise, South African Olympic wrestler
• Lou Boudreau, American, Hall of Fame baseball player and manager
• Lou Brock, American baseball player
• Louis Bullard, American football player
• Louis Campbell, American basketball player
• Louis Chevrolet, racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
• Louis Deletraz, Swiss race car driver
• Louis Clarke, American Olympic track champion
• Louis Ford , Welsh footballer
• Louis van Gaal, Dutch footballer and manager
• Lou Gehrig, American baseball player
• Louis Jani, Canadian judoka
• Louis Kaplan, nicknamed "Kid Kaplan", Russian-born American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer
• Louis King , American basketball player
• Louis Klotz, nicknamed "Red", American NBA basketball player and owner of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals
• Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian footballer and manager
• Louis Rubenstein, Canadian world champion Hall of Fame figure skater
• Louis Saha, French footballer
• Louis Smith , English gymnast

  Others

• Louis Botha, South African politician, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, one of the principal commanders of the Second Boer War
• Louis Congo, 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., chairman and CEO of IBM
• Louis Jolliet, French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
• Louis-Frédéric Lescure, French industrialist
• Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India and first Governor-General of independent India, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
• Louis Palander, parrot from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, well-provided for by owner's will after her death in 1949
• Louis H. Pollak, American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Louis Pope, American businessman
• Louis B. Schwartz, American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, heir apparent to earldom.
• Louis Zamperini, American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor.

  Fictional characters

• Louis de Pointe du Lac, character in the Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice
• Louis the Alligator, from film The Princess and the Frog
• Louis Litt, character played by Rick Hoffman in Suits
• Louis Tully, character played by Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
• Louis Wu, character in the Ringworld books by Larry Niven
• Louie Duck, Disney character
• Louis, one of the protagonists of Left 4 Dead
• Louis, a protagonist of the Japanese manga series Beastars