Luis
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For other uses, see Luis (disambiguation).
| Luis | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | Famous warrior |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Luís, Luiz |
| Related names | Louis, Lewis |
Luis, (Spanish form), Luís (Portuguese and Galician), Lois (archaic Galician), Lluís (Catalan form), or Luiz (archaic use in Portugal, but common in Brazil) is a masculine given name related to Louis.
[edit] List of people with the given name Luis
- Royalty of Portugal
- Luís I of Portugal (1838–1889), Portuguese king
- Infante Luis (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
- Luiz Antonio dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner
- Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer player and coach
- Luiz Azeredo, Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
- Luis Caballero, Paraguayan football (soccer) player
- Lluís Carreras, Spanish football player
- Luis Antonio Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- Luis Alberto Castillo, Dominican-American football player
- Luis de Milán, Spanish composer
- Luis Díaz, Venezuelan volleyball player
- Luis Dutra Jr., Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
- Luis Enrique Martínez García, Spanish football (soccer) player
- Luis Ernesto Guzmán, a Honduran footballer
- Luis Ernesto José, Dominican boxer
- Luis Ernesto Michel, a football goalie
- Luís Figo, Portuguese football player
- Luis Gonzalez, Cuban-American baseball player
- Luis Rodríguez, Cuban boxer
- 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
- Luís Santos, Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
- Luis Soares, Portuguese-French long-distance runner
- Luis Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua
- Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer
- Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
- Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball 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, a Puerto Rican actor
- Luis Roberto Guzmán, a 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
- 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 Muñoz Marín, first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico
- Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican politician and father of Luis Muñoz Marín
- Writer
- Luis Llorens 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 physcist, 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 Miranda Casañas, Puerto Rican businessman
- Luis Née, explorer, botanist, discovered Coast Live Oak in California
- 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
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