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Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu (1696-1788), French marshal, diplomat, and académicien; godson of Louis XIV, conqueror of Minorca in 1756, victor at Kloster Zeven 1757.
Louis François de Pourtalès
Louis François de Pourtalès (1824–1880) was a Swiss-born American naturalist who pioneered deep-sea dredging on the US Coast Survey, showing animal life thrives at great depths.
Louis François, Duke of Anjou
Louis François, Duke of Anjou (1672) was the third son and sixth child of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain; born 14 June 1672, baptized 1 November, died 4 November 1672 aged four months.
Louis François, Prince of Conti
Louis François, Prince of Conti (Louis François de Bourbon, 1717–1776), French prince of the blood, Grand Prieur de France, and head of Louis XV's Secret du roi from 1747 to 1757; pursued the Polish crown, then opposed the king after 1756 and patronized Prévost, Morelly, Le Paige, and Beaumarchais.
Louis Freeh
Louis Freeh (born 1950) is an American former judge and prosecutor who served as FBI Director from September 1993 to June 25, 2001, led the Pizza Connection mafia prosecution, decentralized the bureau, and was later assessed by the 9/11 Commission.
Louis G. Henyey
Louis G. Henyey (1910–1970) was an American astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Henyey–Greenstein scattering function and his 1959 method for automatic computation of stellar evolution.
Louis Gallavardin
Louis Gallavardin (1875–1957) was a French physician and cardiologist of Lyon, among the first in Europe to devote himself entirely to cardiology, publishing about 360 papers.
Louis Garrel
Louis Garrel, born 1983 in Paris, is a French actor, screenwriter, and director, son of Philippe Garrel, star of The Dreamers, César winner for Regular Lovers and The Innocent.
Louis Gaston de Ségur
Louis Gaston de Ségur (Louis-Gaston-Adrien de Ségur, 1820–1881) was a French Catholic priest and apologist who, after serving as auditor of the Roman Rota, wrote some sixty popular works.
Louis Georges Gouy
Louis Georges Gouy (1854–1926) was a French physicist, professor at Lyon, known for the Gouy balance, the Gouy phase, and the Gouy–Chapman electric double layer.
Louis Germain
Louis Germain (Alfred Louis Pierre Germain, 1878–1942), French malacologist and director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1936–1942), specialist in land and freshwater molluscs and author of the 1930–1931 Faune de France.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024), American actor, first Black man to win the supporting actor Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman; Emmy winner as Fiddler in Roots; Golden Globe and Daytime Emmy winner.
Louis Greenwald
Louis Greenwald is an American Democratic politician representing New Jersey's 6th Legislative District in the General Assembly since 1996 and serving as Majority Leader since 2012.
Louis Guiabern
Louis Guiabern, also known as Louis Charadrius, is the main antagonist of the 2024 video game Metaphor: ReFantazio. He is a fictional character and the final boss.
Louis Guirola, Jr.
Louis Guirola, Jr. (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Mississippi, appointed by George W. Bush in 2004.
Louis Gustave Binger
Louis Gustave Binger was a French explorer and army officer who crossed West Africa from the upper Niger to the Gulf of Guinea in 1887–1889.
Louis Guttman
Louis Guttman (Eliyahu Guttman, 1916–1987) was an American-born Israeli sociologist who founded the Guttman scale, six reliability lower bounds including Cronbach's alpha, and facet theory.
Louis H. Miller
Louis H. Miller is an American NIH malaria researcher who showed the Duffy antigen is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax and defined var gene variation.
Louis H. Roddis Jr.
Louis H. Roddis Jr. (1918–1991) was an American naval officer and nuclear engineer who worked under Admiral Rickover on the first nuclear submarines and led Consolidated Edison.
Louis Hachette Group
Louis Hachette Group is a French media and publishing company created in December 2024 to combine Lagardère and Prisma Media, named after publisher Louis Hachette (1800–1864).
Louis Haefliger
Louis Haefliger (1904–1993) was a Swiss bank accountant and volunteer Red Cross delegate who alerted American troops, saving some 40,000 inmates of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in May 1945.
Louis Hamman
Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946) was an American physician at Johns Hopkins, regarded as a preeminent diagnostician, whose name is attached to Hamman's sign and the Hamman-Rich syndrome.
Louis Harant
Louis Harant (Louis Joseph Harant, born Louis Joseph Slavotinek, 1895–1986), American sport shooter and Army officer; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in 30 m team military pistol with 268 points, top US score.
Louis Harold Gray
Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965) was a British physicist and radiobiologist who formulated the Bragg-Gray principle for measuring radiation dose; the SI unit, the gray, honors him.
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon, 1692-1740), seventh Prince of Condé, was Prime Minister of France 1723-1726, arranged Louis XV's marriage to Marie Leszczyńska, was dismissed for Cardinal de Fleury, and built and collected at Chantilly.
Louis Henri, Prince of Condé
Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756–1830), also Louis VI Henri de Bourbon-Condé, last Prince of Condé; émigré officer, father of the executed Duke of Enghien, died hanged at Saint-Leu, leaving his fortune to the Duke of Aumale.
Louis Herthum
Louis Herthum (born 1956, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American actor and producer known for Peter Abernathy on HBO's Westworld, Deputy Andy Broom on Murder, She Wrote, JD on True Blood, and Jacob Monroe on The Night Agent.
Louis Hofmann
Louis Hofmann (born 1997) is a German actor best known as young Jonas Kahnwald in Netflix's Dark (2017–2020) and as Werner in All the Light We Cannot See (2023).
Louis Hostin
Louis Hostin (1908-1998), French weightlifter, light-heavyweight; Olympic gold 1932 and 1936, silver 1928; only French lifter with two Olympic golds; 10 world records.
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I of Hungary, known as Louis the Great, was king of Hungary from 1342 and of Poland from 1370, ruling over a European great power.