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Louis D. Hastings
Louis D. Hastings (born 1944), McCarthy, Alaska massacre perpetrator; shot six residents dead and wounded two on March 1, 1983 as part of a plan to sabotage the Trans-Alaska pipeline; sentenced to 634 years.
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French painter and Diorama showman, invented the daguerreotype, the first widely adopted photographic process, announced in Paris in 1839 and bought by the French state for a 6,000-franc annuity.
Louis de Berquin
Louis de Berquin was a northern French nobleman and humanist who translated Erasmus and Luther into French, was arrested three times, and was burned in Paris in 1529.
Louis de Branges de Bourcia
Louis de Branges de Bourcia (born 1932) is an American mathematician at Purdue University who proved the Bieberbach conjecture in 1984 and pursues the Riemann hypothesis.
Louis de Broglie
Louis-Victor de Broglie, 7th duc de Broglie, was a French theoretical physicist whose 1924 thesis proposed matter waves, confirmed in 1927 and earning the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Louis de Brouckère
Louis de Brouckère (1870–1951) was a Belgian socialist politician and lawyer who led the Belgian Labour Party's left opposition and later served as Deputy Chairman.
Louis de Funès
Louis de Funès (1914-1983), French comic actor of Spanish descent, star of La Grande Vadrouille, Le Corniaud, and Rabbi Jacob; late stardom after 1956, 140+ films, record 17.2 million admissions, honorary César 1980.
Louis de Funès filmography
Louis de Funès filmography: screen career of French comic actor Louis de Funès (1914–1983), 141–147 films from La Tentation de Barbizon (1945) to Le gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982), 282.5 million French admissions, record La Grande Vadrouille.
Louis de Montfort
Louis de Montfort, or Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673–1716), was a French missionary priest who founded three congregations and wrote True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
Louis de Pointe du Lac
Louis de Pointe du Lac is the vampire narrator of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976). Portrayed by Brad Pitt in 1994 and Jacob Anderson in AMC's series, he is a guilt-ridden, humanity-clinging vampire reimagined as a Black New Orleanian.
Louis DeJoy
Louis DeJoy, 75th US Postmaster General (June 2020 to 2025), logistics executive and Republican donor, launched the Delivering for America plan, slowed First-Class Mail standards, and faced congressional subpoenas and GAO findings of declining service.
Louis Delgrès
Louis Delgrès (1766–1802) was a French Republican military officer of mixed race who led Guadeloupe's 1802 resistance against Napoleon's expedition to restore slavery, dying with 300 companions at Matouba rather than surrender.
Louis Dollo
Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (1857–1931) was a Belgian paleontologist who reconstructed the Bernissart Iguanodon skeletons, pioneered paleobiology, and formulated Dollo's Law of evolutionary irreversibility.
Louis Dreyfus Company
Louis Dreyfus Company is a Dutch agricultural commodities merchant founded in 1851, one of the four ABCD trading houses, handling about 100 million tons a year.
Louis Ducros
Louis Ducros (1846–1927) was a French literary historian who taught at Poitiers and Aix, wrote on Diderot and Rousseau, and won three Académie française prizes.
Louis Ducruet
Louis Ducruet (born 1992), son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and Daniel Ducruet, is a Monegasque football executive who worked at AS Monaco 2015-2020, scouted for Nottingham Forest, and leads the Monégasque Esport Federation.
Louis Durlofsky
Louis Durlofsky is an engineer at Stanford University who studies subsurface flow, known for reservoir modeling and optimization techniques that earned him National Academy of Engineering election in 2022.
Louis Duysens
Louis Nico Marie Duysens (1921–2015) was a Dutch biophysicist and professor at Leiden University whose 1952 thesis gave the first spectroscopic evidence for photosynthetic reaction centers and whose 1961 experiments proved the two-light-reaction scheme of photosynthesis.
Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus, also known as Louis Brus, was an American physical chemist at Columbia University who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quantum dots.
Louis Ellies Dupin
Louis Ellies Dupin (Louis-Ellies Du Pin, 1657–1719) was a French Catholic priest and ecclesiastical historian of Paris, best known for the Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques.
Louis Essen
Louis Essen (1908–1997) was a British physicist at the National Physical Laboratory who built the first practical caesium atomic clock in 1955, the basis of the modern SI second.
Louis F. Coffin
Louis F. Coffin, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric in Schenectady whose work on metal fatigue produced the Coffin–Manson equation for low-cycle fatigue life.
Louis F. Reichardt
Louis F. Reichardt is an American neurobiologist who spent 37 years at UCSF studying nervous system development and directed the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative from 2013.
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan, born Louis Walcott, is an American religious leader who has led the Nation of Islam since 1978 and organized the 1995 Million Man March.
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (Louis Ferdinand Prinz von Preußen, 1907–1994), grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and head of the House of Hohenzollern 1951–1994; distinct from the earlier composer prince (1772–1806).
Louis Ferreira
Louis Ferreira (born Luís Ferreira, 1966, Terceira, Azores) is a Portuguese-Canadian actor, formerly credited as Justin Louis, known for Stargate Universe's Colonel Young, Motive's Oscar Vega, Breaking Bad's Declan, and Saw IV.
Louis Fierens
Louis Fierens (Victor Louis Fierens, 1875–1967), Belgian archer from Duffel; won two golds and one silver in men's team target archery (28, 33, 50 m) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Louis Fieser
Louis Fieser (1899–1977) was an American organic chemist at Harvard who synthesized vitamin K1 in 1939, led the wartime team that developed napalm, and co-wrote the Reagents for Organic Synthesis series with his wife Mary.
Louis Finet
Louis Finet (Louis Casimir Finet, born 5 March 1894) was a Belgian Olympic equestrian who won team gold and individual bronze in equestrian vaulting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Olympics.
Louis Franck (politician)
Louis Franck was a Belgian liberal lawyer and politician, minister of the Colonies from 1918 to 1924, who reformed the Belgian Congo's administration and finances.