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Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour (Louis Dearborn LaMoore, 1908–1988), American Western novelist, author of Hondo and the Sackett saga; sold over 200 million books, won the 1984 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Louis Landau
Louis Landau (Matthew Louis Landau), English actor born 2005 in Bristol, Guildhall graduate; known for Archie Baddingham in Disney+'s Rivals, Oliver Barnes in Prime Video's Butterfly, and upcoming roles as Stu Sutcliffe in Hamburg Days and Billy Cavendish in Netflix's Kennedy.
Louis Landweber
Louis Landweber (1912–1998) was an American hydrodynamicist and naval architect who built the University of Iowa's ship hydrodynamics program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Louis Lapicque
Louis Lapicque (1866–1952) was a French physiologist who made nerve and muscle excitability quantitative, defining the chronaxie and proposing in 1907 the strength–duration equation underlying the integrate-and-fire neuron model.
Louis Le Fur
Louis Le Fur (1870–1943) was a French jurist and professor of public and international law at Caen, Strasbourg, Rennes, and Paris, known for his Catholic natural-law philosophy of international law.
Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince (28 August 1841 – disappeared 16 September 1890), French inventor in Leeds, built a single-lens motion-picture camera and filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), the oldest surviving film; he vanished from a Dijon–Paris train before any public demonstration, and murder, suicide, and staged-disappearance theories remain unproven.
Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey (Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903–1972) was a Kenyan-born British paleoanthropologist whose East African excavations, above all at Olduvai Gorge, established Africa as the cradle of human evolution.
Louis Lecompte
Louis Lecompte (John Howard Louis Lecompte, 1914–1970), Canadian defenseman with the RCAF Flyers, won ice hockey gold at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, later refereed at the 1956 Games.
Louis Legrand
Louis Legrand (1711–1780) was a French Sulpician theologian, doctor of the Sorbonne, and royal censor who wrote the condemnation of Rousseau's Émile and directed studies at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice from 1767.
Louis Leon Thurstone
Louis Leon Thurstone was an American psychologist known for multiple factor analysis and the law of comparative judgment, and president of the American Psychological Association in 1932.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) was a French physicist and essayist who led major cosmic-ray laboratories, coined "hyperon", and belonged to both the Académie des sciences and the Académie française.
Louis Leterrier
Louis Leterrier, born 1973 in Paris, is a French director of The Transporter, Unleashed, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans, Now You See Me, and Fast X, plus Netflix's Lupin episodes and The Last House.
Louis Litt
Louis Litt is the fictional lawyer played by Rick Hoffman in Suits (2011–2019), a tax-law partner who manages the associates, rivals Harvey Specter, marries Sheila Sazs, and returns in Suits LA.
Louis M Pecora
Louis M Pecora is an American physicist who, with Thomas Carroll, discovered a method for synchronizing chaotic systems in 1990 and was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2020.
Louis M. Kunkel
Louis M. Kunkel is an American human geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital best known for identifying the gene altered in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Louis M. Luttrell
Louis M. Luttrell is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at the Medical University of South Carolina whose work showed β-arrestins organize their own GPCR signaling pathways.
Louis M. Sherwood
Louis M. Sherwood was an American endocrinologist whose laboratory work showed that blood calcium directly controls parathyroid hormone secretion, and who later held senior roles at Merck.
Louis M. Staudt
Louis M. Staudt is an American cancer researcher who defined the molecular subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and leads the NCI Lymphoid Malignancies Branch.
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice (Frederick Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963), Belfast-born Irish poet, critic, and BBC broadcaster of the Auden-era 1930s generation; author of Autumn Journal, Letters from Iceland, and The Burning Perch.
Louis Maimbourg
Louis Maimbourg (1610–1686) was a French Jesuit church historian whose polemical histories served Louis XIV, until Pope Innocent XI ordered his expulsion from the order in 1681.
Louis Majorelle
Louis Majorelle (1859–1926) was a French cabinetmaker and decorative artist, a leading Art nouveau furniture designer and, with Émile Gallé, a central figure of the École de Nancy.
Louis Malle
Louis Malle (1932–1995), French film director born in Thumeries; co-directed Cousteau's The Silent World (Palme d'Or, Oscar), made Les Amants, Lacombe Lucien, Atlantic City, and Au revoir les enfants, and worked in both France and the United States.
Louis Mandylor (Ηλίας Θεοδοσόπουλος)
Louis Mandylor (Ηλίας Θεοδοσόπουλος, born 1966, Melbourne) is an Australian actor, director, and producer, brother of Costas Mandylor, known as Nick Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002–2023), Martial Law, The Debt Collector, and indie action films he directs.
Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin
Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin, known as Zélie Martin, were a French Catholic married couple of Alençon, a watchmaker and a lacemaker, canonized together in 2015.
Louis Maxson
Louis Maxson (Louis William Maxson, called Lewis, 1855-1916), American archer and patent attorney with the Potomac Archers; six-time US champion, National Archery Association secretary, and 1904 Olympic team recurve gold medalist.
Louis Moore (American football)
Louis Moore (born 2001) is an American football safety from Mesquite, Texas, who played at Navarro College, Indiana, and Ole Miss, won the 2025 national championship with Indiana as an AP second-team All-American, and signed with the Miami Dolphins as a 2026 undrafted free agent.
Louis Mosley
Louis Mosley, born in 1983, is a British technology executive who leads Palantir Technologies in the UK and Europe, overseeing NHS and Ministry of Defence contracts.
Louis Napoleon Murat
Louis Napoleon Murat (1872–1943), French prince and equestrian, won 1900 Olympic gold in Hacks and Hunter Combined on The General; great-nephew of Napoleon I, often confused with his uncle.
Louis Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist at Grenoble who described antiferromagnetism in 1932 and ferrimagnetism in 1947, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020) was a Canadian-born American mathematician who spent his career at NYU's Courant Institute and shared the 2015 Abel Prize for work on nonlinear partial differential equations.