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Louis I of Spain
Louis I (Luis I) of Spain (1707–1724), first Bourbon king born in Spain; reigned only 229 days in 1724 after Philip V's abdication, dying of smallpox at 17; shortest reign in Spanish history.
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (le Boiteux, 1279–1341), first Bourbon duke, grandson of Louis IX, fought at Courtrai, bought titular Thessalonica, and secured Edward III's 1329 Amiens homage.
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372–1407), brother of Charles VI of France, fought John the Fearless for control of the mad king's government and was assassinated in Paris in 1407, starting the Armagnac–Burgundian civil war.
Louis II of Anjou
Louis II of Anjou (1377–1417), also Louis II of Provence, duke of Anjou and titular king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem; crowned by Clement VII in 1389, twice invaded Naples, defeated at Roccasecca 1411, father of Louis III and René.
Louis II of Hungary
Louis II of Hungary (Hungarian: II. Lajos) was king of Hungary and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526, the last Jagiellonian ruler of both, who died at Mohács in 1526.
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (1337-1410), called le Bon, third duke of Bourbon: hostage in England after Brétigny, fought the English and Roosebeke, led the 1390 Mahdia crusade, and was chronicled as the Good Duke by Cabaret d'Orville.
Louis II, Prince of Monaco
Louis II of Monaco (Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi, 1870–1949), Sovereign Prince of Monaco 1922–1949, Saint-Cyr-trained French cavalry officer and First World War liaison officer; grandfather and predecessor of Rainier III.
Louis III, Prince of Condé
Louis III de Bourbon-Condé (1668–1710), duc de Bourbon, grandson of the Grand Condé; sixth prince de Condé who never bore the title, married Mlle de Nantes in 1685, and served under Louis XIV.
Louis IV of France
Louis IV d'Outremer (921–954), Carolingian king of West Francia 936–954, son of Charles the Simple, raised in England at Æthelstan's court; reigned from Laon against Hugh the Great, captured by Normans in 945, father of Lothair.
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis IV (Ludwig IV, 1837-1892), Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877, son-in-law of Queen Victoria through Princess Alice; father of Tsarina Alexandra; commanded Hessian troops in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71.
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Louis IV, called the Bavarian (Ludwig der Bayer), Wittelsbach king of Germany from the disputed 1314 election and Holy Roman Emperor 1328–1347; victor at Mühldorf, excommunicated by John XXII, deposed by Clement VI in favor of Charles IV.
Louis IX of France
Louis IX (Saint Louis, 1214–1270), Capetian king of France 1226–1270, led the failed Seventh and Eighth Crusades, died at Tunis, reformed royal justice via enquêteurs and the Parlement of Paris, built the Sainte-Chapelle, and was canonized in 1297.
Louis J. Ignarro
Louis J. Ignarro, born 1941 in Brooklyn, is an American pharmacologist at UCLA who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for identifying nitric oxide as the blood-vessel-relaxing signaling molecule.
Louis J. Mordell
Louis Joel Mordell was an American-born British number theorist who proved in 1922 that rational points on an elliptic curve form a finitely generated group, and conjectured the Mordell conjecture.
Louis J. Muglia
Louis J. Muglia is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics and pediatrics, known for research on the genetics of preterm birth and a 2017 New England Journal of Medicine study.
Louis J. Picker
Louis J. Picker (Louis Picker) is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at OHSU known for memory T cell biology and a CMV-vectored HIV vaccine platform tested in macaques.
Louis J. Ptáček
Louis J. Ptáček, also written Louis Ptacek, is an American neurologist and human geneticist at UCSF who pioneered the study of channelopathies and established human sleep genetics.
Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs (1920–2006) was a British rabbi and theologian whose exclusion over his book We Have Reason to Believe led to the New London Synagogue and Masorti Judaism.
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask
Louis Jacobsohn-Lask, born Louis Jacobsohn, was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist known for the Bekhterev–Jacobsohn finger-flexion reflex and handbooks on nervous-system anatomy; expelled in 1933, he died in Sevastopol in 1940.
Louis Johnson (bassist)
Louis Johnson (1955-2015), "Thunder Thumbs", LA funk bassist of the Brothers Johnson; played on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller including "Billie Jean"; known for slap bass and the Music Man StingRay.
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan (Louis Thomas Jordan; 1908–1975) was an American alto saxophonist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader whose Tympany Five pioneered jump blues and made him a chief architect of rhythm and blues.
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
Louis Joseph Xavier François de France (1781–1789), eldest son of Louis XVI and heir apparent as Dauphin of France; educated under duc d'Harcourt from 1789, died aged 7 weeks before the Bastille.
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, 8th prince de Condé (1736-1818), French prince of the blood, governor of Burgundy, Seven Years' War general at Hastenbeck, Minden, and Johannisberg, and commander of the counter-revolutionary Armée de Condé in exile.
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre, 1921-2015), French actor of Gigi and Octopussy; Hollywood's suave French lover after Charles Boyer, Resistance veteran, Legion of Honour 2010.
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), French actor, director, and head of the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1934; co-founder of the Cartel des quatre, creator of Giraudoux's major plays and Molière's Dom Juan, and film actor in Quai des Orfèvres.
Louis K. Diamond
Louis K. Diamond was an American pediatric hematologist at Harvard Medical School, considered a founder of pediatric hematology, who devised the exchange transfusion for Rh disease.
Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), born Leiser-Itze Schmuilowsky, was an American architect trained at the University of Pennsylvania whose monumental, light-filled buildings include the Salk Institute, Kimbell Art Museum, and National Assembly Building in Dhaka.
Louis Kauffman
Louis H. Kauffman, born 1945 in Potsdam, New York, is an American mathematician at the University of Illinois Chicago known for the Kauffman bracket polynomial and knot theory.
Louis Koo (古天乐)
Louis Koo (古天樂, born 1970) is a Hong Kong actor, singer, and producer: TVB star of Condor Heroes and A Step into the Past, Best Actor winner for Paradox, founder of One Cool Film, and 2026 first Coliseum concerts.
Louis L. Stanton
Louis Lee Stanton, born 1927, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge of the Southern District of New York since 1985, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.