• Louis is a boy's name of German, French origin meaning 'renowned warrior'. Louis is the 248 ranked male name by popularity.
• Louis Segond French Bible - (October 3, 1810 – June 18, 1885), was a Swiss theologian who translated the Bible into French from the original texts in Hebrew and Greek. He was born in Plainpalais, near Geneva.
• He was never recognized by the French State. He is generally not in lists of official French monarchs. There was a brief period (20 March 1815 to 8 July 1815) called the Hundred Days in which Louis XVIII was king somewhat before the time, but fled because of Napoleon I's return from Elba.

1. French Louis Dining Chairs
2. French Louis Chair
3. French Louisiana

Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, is the only king of France to be canonized in the Catholic Church.Louis was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the death of his father Louis VIII; his mother, Blanche of Castile, ruled the kingdom as regent until he reached maturity.

Louis Seymour, known as 'French Louie' or 'Adirondack French Louie' (c. 1832–February 28, 1915) was an Adirondack guide, trapper, woodsman and hermit. His age was unknown but his death certificate said he was 84. He was born near Ottawa Canada, sometime around 1832.^[1] French Louie is mentioned in virtually every book written about the South-Central Adirondacks. A lot of what is known of him is from the oral tradition, but Harvey Dunham wrote a biography in 1953.

Early life[edit]

Louis Seymour was born on a small farm near Dog River North of Ottawa, Canada. As a young boy he was able to do the work of a man, removing stumps, clearing brush etc. It's not known how many brothers and sisters he had, but Harvy L. Dunham described it as 'many'. After his mothers' death, his step mother was mean. He ran away from home and joined a circus. Louie crossed into the United States and joined another circus, and after an undetermined amount of time, at the age of twelve, he took a job on the Erie Canal as a driver, for $8 per month. During the many hours walking behind the mules, he would daydream about living in the woods, and how to set trap lines.^[2]

Arrival in the Adirondacks[edit]

Once Louie went back to Canada and found his family had separated, and he never went back. For the next 20 years, until after the American Civil War, he worked on the canal, and with circuses. During the winter when the canals were closed, and the circuses were in winter quarters, he would go into the woods as a lumberjack, mastering the dangerous river driving and clean chopping. During the circus season of 1868, while working in a circus in Saratoga New York, he heard from a crew of lumberjacks about the great country to the north. Soon Louie was northbound on the Sackets Harbor & Saratoga Railroad which, was then under construction, and planning to cross the entire woods past Blue Mountain Lake, and Raquette Lake through the Moose River and Beaver River country on to Carthage and Sackets Harbor. The plan was also to log some 500,000 acres of timber land. At Thurman Station Louie got on a stage for Warrensburg, where he caught a stage for Indian Lake.^[3]

Louie had a real fondness and longing for the 'bush.' A man sent Louie down a road to the south to Lewey Lake to get a job.^[4] George Griffin was a big lumberman with thirteen camps in the area around Lewey Lake and Indian Lake. Griffin hired Louie on as a blacksmiths helper.^[5] Before long Louie was sent into the woods as a chopper. At that time, crosscut saws were rare and had to be imported from England, and few knew how to sharpen one. Among the loggers in the Adirondacks, there was a debate about which was better, sawing or chopping. The reason for the debate was because the flat ends of the sawed logs would split when they would hit rocks and boulders in the rivers on the way to the sawmill. Chopping produced a tapered end on the log.

In 1871 Louie bought a yoke of oxen to work a small lumber job for Griffin. Two years later he hauled a load of hides with his oxen through the town of Newton Corners to the tannery for a man named Dave Sturgis. Between 1871 and 1873 worked in the lumber woods for Jim MacCormack and John McGinn, and drove logs on the Jessup River for Dave Sturgis.^[6]

Louie Seymore, Trapper[edit]

In 1873 Louie gave up following the lumber jobs, and built his first enclosed camp on Lewey Lake.^[7] There he lived and trapped, and sold his furs at Indian Lake Village through Oliver Ste. Marie. Louie had no steel traps, but used snares and deadfalls. Oliver sent the furs to Prouty in New York City, who paid the best for furs. It might be a year or two before Louie saw the checks to be cashed.^[8] During that winter Louie captured two deer, built a pen and fed them shin hemlock. Later the deer were sold to the owner of a park in Saratoga. On the opposite side of Lewey Lake another French Canadian named Sam Seymore lived in a cabin. Sam was also a woodsman hermit, and trapper but did not long for the deep woods. Sam believed that Louie and himself must be brothers because they both came from Dog River, they both said their family broke up in Canada, and had the same story of a hard step mother. Louie said he had many brothers and sisters, but didn't remember one named Sam. Sam always believed they were brothers, and Louie wasn't so sure. Sam died in the summer following Louie's death in 1915.^[9]

Louie kept chickens and had a productive garden. He attributed the success of his garden to the many snakes of the area. He had a couple of hound dogs, and when he was going into town he would kill a deer, skin it out, and leave it with the dogs, along with a large volume of water. Louie gained the respect of many by his ability to live in the wilderness and be totally self-sufficient.^[10]

It became too civilized for Louie at Lewey Lake and he moved on to the Jessup River where he built another cabin and stayed there for one winter. From there he built a camp in a clearing on the Indian Lake-Newton Corners road. Next he built a cabin at Cedar Lakes. Trapping took him to Pilsbury Lake where he built two lean-to's facing each other. Louie left his pack and gun with Dave Sturgis, and went to a circus with some lumberjacks, and did not return with them. When he again headed back to the wilderness, he ended up in the vicinity of Moosehead Lake in Maine. He was not there long because he killed a moose out of season and got away on a river log drive. He said he left no tracks getting out of the state of Maine. This time he settled not at Cedar Lakes, but nearer to Newton Corners. He did odd jobs, and cleared several acres of timber for Dave Sturgis.^[11]

Twice yearly, Louie would return to Speculator with his winter haul of furs and pelts on a narrow hand sled of his own making. Arriving on the top of Page Hill where he could overlook the growing town, he would emit a series of wild animal cries and howls that would signal to the children of the town that he had arrived once more. They would come running to him and he would never be shy about buying them candy or giving out nickels and dimes. When children asked him to show off his animal cries or mimic an owl, he would always oblige. He always felt he could connect to children because of their imagination and appreciation to the world of the forest and seldom had much use for grown-ups.^[12]

Death[edit]

In the winter of 1915, Louie became ill with what was then called Bright's disease. He hiked to his camp at Pillsbury and stayed overnight where he then trekked to the main road and walked to Speculator. Arriving at the Brook's Motel, paid for his room with a trout he had caught and gave it to Nora Brooks, the wife of the owner. The evening of February 27, 1915, he fell deathly ill as Ernie and Nora Brooks sent for a doctor. He was pronounced dead early the next morning. Because of his life style, Louie never had much money so paying for a burial was very difficult. The towns people of Lake Pleasant and Arietta both chipped in and helped give Louie the proper burial he deserved. Ernie Brooks paid for the burial permit as Mead Sturges and Nathan Slack dug the burial site. The town of Arietta agreed to pay half of the $150.00 burial fee while the other half was paid by the town of Lake Pleasant. The School house was closed as students attended the funeral of French Louie at the Speculator Methodist church. The funeral was preached by Rev. L.W.Ward. Before the casket was closed, children walked up to the open casket and laid fresh green balsam on his body. As the procession made its way to the cemetery, they held balsam boughs as they walked. Louie was buried in the Speculator cemetery in an unmarked grave until 1945 when group who was fascinated by his story erected a tombstone that read, 'French Louie' 'Louis Seymour, died February 28, 1915 aged about 85 years. Erected 1954 by admirers.' ^[13]

Today[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 1. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
2. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. pp. 1–4. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
3. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 5. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
4. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 8. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
5. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 10. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
6. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 11. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
7. ^Aber, Ted; King, Stella (1981) [1961]. Tales from an Adirondack County. Prospect, NY: Prospect Books. p. 85. ISBN0-913710-07-5.
8. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 11. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
9. ^Aber, Ted; King, Stella (1981) [1961]. Tales from an Adirondack County. Prospect, NY: Prospect Books. pp. 95–96. ISBN0-913710-07-5.
10. ^Aber, Ted; King, Stella (1981) [1961]. Tales from an Adirondack County. Prospect, NY: Prospect Books. p. 84. ISBN0-913710-07-5.
11. ^Dunham, Harvey (1987) [1953]. Adirondack French Louie: Early Life in the North Woods. Saranac Lake, NY: North Country Books. p. 15. ISBN0-932052-57-6.
12. ^Aber, Ted, and Stella Brooks King. 'The Town of Lake Pleasant.' The History of Hamilton County. Lake Pleasant, NY: Great Wilderness, 1965. 696. Print.
13. ^Aber, Ted, and Stella Brooks King. 'The Town of Lake Pleasant.' The History of Hamilton County. Lake Pleasant, NY: Great Wilderness, 1965. 698. Print.

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Louis is the French form of the Old Frankishgiven nameChlodowig and one of two English forms,^[1] 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'.^[2]

Variant forms[edit]

• Afrikaans: Louis
• Arabic: لويس‎ and لؤي
• Albanian: Luigj, Ludovik
• Ancient Germanic: Chlodovech, Clodovicus, Ludovicus, Clovis, Hludowig
• Armenian: Լուդովիկ (Loudovik)^[3]
• Basque: Aloxi, Koldobika, Luki, Koldo
• Breton: Loeiz, Loïc
• Bengali: লুইস, লুডউইগ, romanized: Luis/Luish, Luduig
• Bulgarian: Людовик (Lyudovik)
• Catalan: Lluís
• Chinese Simplified: 路易 (Lùyì)
• Chinese Traditional: 路易 (Lùyì)
• Croatian: Alojzije, Ljudevit, Ludovik, Luj, Alojz
• Czech: Ludvík, Alois, Luděk
• Danish: Ludvig, Lodvig
• Macedonian: Лудвиг (Ludvig), Луј (Luj), Људевит (Ljudevit)
• Dutch: Lodewijk, Lode, Lodevicus, Loe, Louis, Lowie, Lowieke, Ludo, Ludovicus
• English: Louis, Louie, Lou, Lewis, Lewes, Lewie, Lew, Lewy or Luey; Ludovic, Lodvig, Lodovig, Lutwidge
• Esperanto: Ludoviko, Luĉjo
• French: Louis, Ludovic, Clovis
• Galician: Lois, Luís
• Georgian: ხლოდვიგი (Khlodvigi), ლუდვიგი (ludvigi), ლუდოვიკო(ludoviko), ლუი (lui)
• German: Ludwig, Alois, Aloysius, Lutz
• Greek: Λουδοβίκος (Loudovíkos), Λοΐζος(Loizos)
• Hawaiian: Lui
• Hindi: लुइस (Lu'is)
• Hungarian: Lajos, Alajos
• Irish: Alaois, Alabhaois, Laoiseach, Lughaidh
• Indonesian: Aloysius, Louis, Ludowikus
• Icelandic: Loðvík
• Italian: Aloigi, Aloisi, Aloisio, Luigi, Lodovico, Ludovico, Alvise, Gigi, Gigio, Gigino, Ginetto, Gino, Luigino, Vico
• Japanese: ルイ(Rui)
• Korean: 루이 (Lui), 루이스 (Luiseu)
• Latin: Ludovicus, Aloysius
• Latvian: Ludviķis, Ludis, Ludvigs, Luijs, Luiss, Luī, Aloizs, Aloiss
• 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
• Provençal: Louïs, Louei, Louvis
• Punjabi: ਲੂਯਿਸ (Lūyis)
• 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, Ludovico
• Swedish: Ludvig, Love, Ludde
• Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis)
• Telugu: లూయిస్ (Lūyis)
• Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒)
• Ukrainian: Людовик (Lyudovyk)
• Welsh: Lewis

Feminine variants[edit]

• Arabic: لويز
• Belarusian: Луіза (Luiza)
• Chinese Simplified: 路易丝 (Lùyìsī)
• Chinese Traditional: 路易絲 (Lùyìsī)
• 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 (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, Luisina, Luisita
• Swedish: Lovisa, Lova
• Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis)
• Telugu: లూయిస్ ( Lūyis)
• Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒)
• Ukrainian: Луїза (Luyiza)
• Urdu: لوئیس

Arts and entertainment[edit]

• Louis (singer) (1952–2011), Serbian singer
• Lou Albano (1933-2009), Italian wrestler, manager 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 Clark (born 1947), English musical arranger and keyboard player
• 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 (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 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 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 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[edit]

• Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader
• Louis DeJoy (born 1957), American businessman and current postmaster general of the United States
• Louis Philippe de Bombelles, Austrian count and diplomat
• 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 De Geer (1818–1896), Sweden's first prime minister; baron, statesman and writer
• Louis De Geer (1854-1935), Swedish prime minister
• 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

Royalty[edit]

Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany[edit]

• 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

Kings of France[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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

French Louis Dining Chairs

Kings of Etruria[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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

King of Spain[edit]

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

Princes of Monaco[edit]

• Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949

Princes of the United Kingdom[edit]

• Prince Louis of Cambridge (b. 23 April 2018), 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[edit]

• 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 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[edit]

• Louis, Grand Duke of Berg from 1809 to 1813, also King of Holland as Louis II

Grand-Dukes of Hesse[edit]

Duke of Savoy[edit]

• Louis, Duke of Savoy, Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465

Duke of Württemberg[edit]

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt[edit]

Science and innovation[edit]

• 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, French-Chilean glaciologist
• Louis Mink (1921–1983), American philosopher of history
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French microbiologist and chemist, discoverer of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization
• Louis Schoonhoven (born 1931), Dutch entomologist
• Louis Wirth (1897–1952), American sociologist

Sports[edit]

• Louis Almond (born 1992), English footballer
• 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 Campbell (born 1979), American basketball 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 King (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player
• 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[edit]

• 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 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 Jolliet (1645–1700), French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
• 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 (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 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 Zamperini (1917–2014), American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor.

Fictional characters[edit]

French Louis Chair

• 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

See also[edit]

French Louisiana

References[edit]

1. ^Campbell, Mike. 'Meaning, origin and history of the name Louis'. Behind the Name.
2. ^Campbell, Mike. 'Meaning, origin and history of the name Ludwig'. Behind the Name.
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