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Louie Vega
Louie Vega, known as "Little" Louie Vega, is an American house music DJ and producer from the Bronx, New York, and one half of Masters at Work with Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez.
Louis
Louis Montémont is a French pop singer and graphic designer from Lorraine, first eliminated from the 2023 Star Academy revival, who later released the single "Plus rien à t'offrir".
Louis A Codispoti
Louis A. Codispoti, born 1940 in Brooklyn, is an American chemical oceanographer known for work on the marine nitrogen cycle and denitrification in oxygen minimum zones.
Louis A. Matis
Louis A. Matis is an American immunologist and physician who worked at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and FDA before leading discovery of the complement inhibitor eculizumab (Soliris) at Alexion.
Louis Abelly
Louis Abelly (1603 or 1604 – 1691) was a French Catholic moral theologian, anti-Jansenist polemicist, and Bishop of Rodez, remembered as the first biographer of Vincent de Paul.
Louis Adolphus Duhring
Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913) was an American dermatologist in Philadelphia who founded Penn Dermatology, co-founded the American Dermatological Association in 1876, and gave his name to dermatitis herpetiformis, known as Duhring's disease.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz, born Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–1873), was a Swiss-born American naturalist who championed the ice age theory and founded Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1859.
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon (Luis Alfonso de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú; duc d'Anjou), born 1974 in Madrid, is head of the house of Bourbon and the legitimist claimant to the French throne as Louis XX, disputed by Jean d'Orléans.
Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser (1918–1990), French Marxist philosopher and longtime professor at the École normale supérieure, known for For Marx, Reading Capital, and the 1970 essay on ideological state apparatuses and interpellation.
Louis Anthony Cox Jr.
Louis Anthony Cox Jr. is an American risk and decision analyst, founder of Cox Associates in Denver and University of Colorado professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Louis Antoine
Louis Antoine (Louis Auguste Antoine) was a French mathematician blinded in World War I whose 1921 thesis founded the study of wild embeddings and Antoine's necklace.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (Decize 1767 – Paris 1794), French revolutionary deputy for the Aisne, Committee of Public Safety member, "Archangel of Terror"; voted Louis XVI's death, wrote ventôse decrees, fell on 10 Thermidor.
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (Louis-Antoine d'Artois, 1775-1844), eldest son of Charles X, last Dauphin of France, nominal Louis XIX for minutes in 1830, victor of the Trocadéro in 1823, died in exile at Goritz.
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a French poet, novelist, and editor, a founder of Surrealism who co-founded the review Littérature in 1919 and joined the Communist Party in 1927.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong (Satchmo, Pops, 1901–1971) was a New Orleans-born jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925–1928 made jazz a soloist's art and shaped all American popular music.
Louis Armstrong discography
The Louis Armstrong discography documents the American jazz trumpeter's recordings from 1923 to 1971, including the Hot Five sides and his biggest hits, "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World."
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, formerly Moisant Field, is the primary commercial airport of Louisiana, located in Kenner about 10 miles west of downtown New Orleans.
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (1837–1920) was a French physicist who invented the subtractive three-color process of photography, patented in 1868 and described in his 1869 book.
Louis Artus
Louis Artus (1870–1960) was a French dramatist, novelist, and critic who wrote vaudevilles and comedies for the Parisian stage from 1893 to 1911, best remembered for Cœur de moineau.
Louis Attrill
Louis Mark Attrill MBE (born 1975, Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British rower who won gold in the men's eight at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Britain's first eights title since 1912, and took 1999 world silver.
Louis Audet
Louis Audet is a Canadian telecommunications executive who served as president and CEO of Cogeco from 1993 to 2018, succeeding his father Henri, the company's founder.
Louis Auguste Dormeuil
Louis Auguste Dormeuil (1868–1951) was a French sailor who won the gold medal in the ½-1 ton class at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Louis B. Flexner
Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996) was an American biochemist and pioneer of neurochemistry, best known for work on the biochemistry of memory with his wife Josefa.
Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer (born Eliezer Meir) was the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1951, co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Hollywood's 'czar' during the studio's Golden Age.
Louis B. Rosenberg
Louis B. Rosenberg is an American engineer and inventor who created Virtual Fixtures, an early augmented reality system for the US Air Force in 1992, and founded Unanimous AI.
Louis B. Slichter
Louis B. Slichter was an American geophysicist at MIT and UCLA who pioneered the study of inverse problems, earth tides, and the earth's free oscillations.
Louis B. Sohn
Louis B. Sohn (Louis Bruno Sohn, 1914–2006) was a Ukrainian-born American legal scholar, a founding father of international human rights and environmental law who helped draft the UN Charter.
Louis B. Thomas
Louis B. Thomas is an American pathologist who headed the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute and helped establish vinyl chloride as a cause of liver cancer.
Louis B. Werner
Louis B. Werner was an American chemist who co-isolated the first weighable amount of plutonium in 1942 at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, and the first pure compound of curium-242 in 1947.
Louis Bacon
Louis Moore Bacon is an American hedge fund manager who founded Moore Capital Management in 1989 and is a conservation philanthropist protecting more than 214,000 acres.