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Louis Baillon
Louis Charles Baillon (1881-1965), Falkland Islands-born field hockey full-back, won Olympic gold with England at the 1908 London Games; the only Falkland Islander Olympic champion, later Phipps Brewery chairman.
Louis Bastien
Louis Bastien (Eugène Louis Bastien, 1881–1963), French track cyclist who won the 1900 Paris Olympic 25 km gold in 25:36.2 and the 1900 world motor-paced title; also a disputed 1900 épée fencing entrant.
Louis Bell
Louis Bell (Louis Russell Bell, born 1982) is an American record producer, songwriter, vocal producer, and mixing engineer, Post Malone's main collaborator; his hits include Sunflower, rockstar, Circles, Havana, and Peaches.
Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand, also Luis Bertrán, was a Spanish Dominican friar from Valencia who spent 1562 to 1569 as a missionary in New Granada, present-day Colombia, and was canonized in 1671.
Louis Blériot
Louis Blériot, full name Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, was a French aviator who made the first airplane flight across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, in 1909.
Louis Bô
Louis Bô is a French venture capital investor who leads Eurazeo's Retail & Mandats practice, sits on boards including Electra and Heetch, and manages HEC Ventures.
Louis Bolk
Louis Bolk, born Lodewijk Bolk, was a Dutch anatomist and evolutionary theorist, professor of anatomy at Amsterdam, best known for his fetalization theory of human evolution.
Louis Bonaparte
Louis Bonaparte (Lodewijk I, 1778-1846), younger brother of Napoleon I, was King of Holland 1806-1810, father of Napoleon III, nicknamed Louis the Good, deposed for favoring Dutch interests.
Louis Borno
Louis Borno was a Haitian lawyer and politician who served as President of Haiti from 1922 to 1930, during the United States military occupation of the country.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha (1862–1919), Boer general and statesman; victor of Colenso, signatory of Vereeniging, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910–1919, suppressor of the 1914 rebellion, conqueror of German South-West Africa.
Louis Bourdaloue
Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) was a French Jesuit preacher whose logically ordered moral sermons dominated the Paris pulpit and the court of Louis XIV between 1670 and 1697.
Louis Braille
Louis Braille (1809–1852), blind French educator at the Paris Royal Institute for Blind Youth, invented the six-dot tactile reading code published in 1829, refined 1837, now used worldwide.
Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), Boston progressive lawyer known as the "People's Lawyer" and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1916-1939, first Jewish justice; creator of the Brandeis brief and co-author of "The Right to Privacy."
Louis Buffon
Louis Thomas Buffon (born 2007), Italian-Czech winger at Pisa, son of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Alena Šeredová; plays as a left-sided attacker and represents the Czech Republic at youth level, scoring U19 hat-tricks.
Louis C. Parrillo
Louis C. Parrillo is an American semiconductor process technologist who developed Twin Tub CMOS and later served as chief technology officer of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector.
Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. (born 1967, Washington, D.C.-raised partly in Mexico City) is an American stand-up comedian and creator of FX's Louie. He admitted 2017 sexual misconduct, rebuilt via self-released specials and a 2022 Grammy, and returned to Netflix in 2026 with Ridiculous.
Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern, born Carl Henry Vogt, was an American stage and film actor known for Duck Soup, The Asphalt Jungle, and an Oscar-nominated turn in The Magnificent Yankee (1950).
Louis Camille Maillard
Louis Camille Maillard (1878–1936) was a French physician and chemist who described in 1912 the browning reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that bears his name.
Louis Carl Lundstrom
Louis Carl Lundstrom was an American engineer at General Motors who pioneered full-scale vehicle crash testing of highway hardware and vehicle crashworthiness, including guardrails and the energy-absorbing steering column.
Louis Chaillot
Louis Chaillot (Louis Paul Fernand Chaillot, 1914–1998), French track cyclist; Olympic tandem sprint champion with Maurice Perrin and sprint silver medalist at Los Angeles 1932, sprint bronze at Berlin 1936, later professional motor-paced world bronze medalist in 1946.
Louis Charles Breguet
Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) was a French aircraft designer, builder, and pilot who founded his aviation company in 1911 and created the Breguet 14, one of the most widely produced aircraft of the First World War.
Louis Charles Delescluze
Louis Charles Delescluze (1809-1871), French republican journalist and politician, founder of L'Impartial du Nord, La Révolution démocratique et sociale, and Le Réveil; deported to Cayenne under the Second Empire; civil delegate to war of the Paris Commune, killed on the Château-d'Eau barricade 25 May 1871.
Louis Chevrolet
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (1878-1941), Swiss-born American racing driver and engineer, co-founded Chevrolet Motor Company with Durant in 1911, won ten National Championship races, and built the Frontenac Indy 500 winners of 1920 and 1921.
Louis Chiron
Louis Chiron (1899–1979), Monégasque Grand Prix driver; won 1931 Monaco GP in a Bugatti Type 51, 21 pre-war Grands Prix, French GP 1947 and 1949, oldest F1 starter at 55.
Louis Cole
Louis Cole (born 1986) is a Los Angeles drummer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, co-founder of KNOWER with Genevieve Artadi and a Brainfeeder solo artist known for Quality Over Opinion, the viral song Bank Account, and the orchestral album Nothing.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), American Art Nouveau designer and son of Tiffany & Co.'s founder, known for Favrile iridescent glass, leaded-glass windows and lamps, Corona glasshouse, and Laurelton Hall.
Louis Coppey
Louis Coppey is a venture capital investor at Point Nine, a Berlin-based seed fund focused on B2B SaaS, joining around 2016 and becoming an equal partner in 2020.
Louis Couperus
Louis Couperus was a Dutch novelist, born in The Hague in 1863 and died in 1923, regarded as one of the greatest writers in Dutch literature.
Louis Crishock
Louis J. Crishock is an American Senior Foreign Service officer (rank of Counselor), Acting High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from July 2026, Principal Deputy High Representative from August 2024, International Supervisor of Brčko District, former US Senior Arctic Official and Consul General in Vladivostok.
Louis Cyr
Louis Cyr, baptized Cyprien-Noé Cyr, was a French Canadian strongman known as the strongest man of his time, performing nearly 2,500 feats of strength from 1883 to 1906.