Louis

Louis or Louÿs may refer to the French name Louis, or the following:

Royalty

• Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• Louis, Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465
• Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary and Poland in the late 14th century
• Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of the emperor Lothair I
• Louis II, Prince of Monaco, the Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949
• Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the most celebrated representative of the Condé branch of the Bourbon dynasty of France
• Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526
• Louis III of France, king of Western Francia
• Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis II
• 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 VI the Roman, the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland
• 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 until his death
• Louis X of France, King of France from 1314 to 1316
• Louis XI of France, King of France
• Louis XII of France, King of France
• Louis XIII of France, King of France from 1610 to 1643
• Louis XIV of France, King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday
• Louis XV of France, King of France from 1715 until his death
• 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 1755 until his death in 1824
• Louis XIX of France, King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 before his abdication
• Louis of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy
• Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, French bishop of Strasbourg, politician, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Louis the Child, the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia
• Louis the German, the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
• 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 I, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the last Emperor of the French from 1852 until 1870

Music

• Louis (artist), a Korean pop singer
• Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
• Louis Jordan, pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter
• Louis, Serbian world, jazz and folk musician
• Louis XIV (band), indie rock band
• Louis Walsh, Irish popular music manager and minor celebrity
• Louis Logic, American underground rapper

Science

• Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist
• Louis Wirth, American sociologist

Sport

• Louis Jani, Canadian judoka
• Louis van Gaal, Dutch football (soccer) player and coach
• Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon racer
• Louis Saha, French professional soccer player

Art

• Louis Wain, painter
• Morris Louis, painter

Economy

• Louis (coin), gold coin issued by the kings of France
• Louis Rukeyser, U.S. business columnist, economic commentator, and television personality

Business

• Louis Chevrolet, racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
• Louis Cruise Lines a shipping company in Cyprus
• Louis Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO of IBM corporation

Literature

• Louis L'Amour, American author of Western fiction
• Louis de Pointe du Lac, fictional character in the Vampire novels of Anne Rice
• Louis Sachar, American author of children's books
• Pierre Louÿs, French novelist and poet
• Louis, the mute swan and main character from EB White's classic novel The Trumpet of the Swan
• Louis (graphic novel), character in the metaphrog series of graphic novels

Other

• Louis dressing, salad dressing
• Louis Riel, Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis
• Louis Braille, inventor of braille
• Louis Jolliet, French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
• Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer
• Louis Michel, Commissioner responsible for Development and Humanitarian Aid.
• Jean Louis, Costume designer
• Louis Quinze, style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XV of France
• Louis the Yard Teacher, character in Sideways Stories From Wayside School
• Lou, the boss of the final guitar battle in Guitar Hero 3.

See also

• Lewis
• Ludwig
• Luis
• Louisburg
• Louise
• Louisiade
• Louisiana (disambiguation)
• Louisville (disambiguation)
• St. Louis, Missouri