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Louis Norberg Howard
Louis Norberg Howard (1929–2015) was an American applied mathematician at MIT and Florida State known for the Howard semicircle theorem and bounds on turbulent convection.
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra (born 1950, birth name Mark Doyle) is an Australian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter best known for Così, Summer of the Aliens, and the screenplay Map of the Human Heart.
Louis Oosthuizen
Louis Oosthuizen (Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen, born 1982), South African golfer, 2010 Open champion at St Andrews by seven strokes; runner-up in all four majors; LIV Golf Southern Guards GC captain.
Louis Otto Kunkel
Louis Otto Kunkel (1884–1960) was an American botanist and plant pathologist who led the Rockefeller Institute's plant pathology division from 1932 and was known for his work on leafhopper-carried yellows diseases.
Louis Page (footballer, born 2008)
Louis Donald Page (born 2008, Lutterworth) is an English central midfielder for Leicester City; England U17-U20 youth international, 2026 Championship Apprentice of the Season, Manchester United transfer target.
Louis Palander
Louis Palander (Adolf Arnold Louis Palander af Vega, 1842–1920) was a Swedish admiral who captained the Vega on Nordenskiöld's 1878–1880 expedition, the first to sail the entire Northeast Passage.
Louis Partridge
Louis Partridge (born 2003, Wandsworth, London) is an English actor known as Viscount Tewkesbury in Netflix's Enola Holmes films, Sid Vicious in Pistol, Jonathan in Disclaimer, and Edward Guinness in House of Guinness.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist who established germ theory, molecular chirality, and attenuated vaccination, and developed the heat treatment called pasteurization.
Louis Paul Boon
Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979), born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, was a Flemish novelist and journalist from Aalst, Belgium, and a leading renovator of Dutch-language prose.
Louis Paul Cailletet
Louis Paul Cailletet (1832–1913) was a French physicist and ironmaster's son who in 1877 first liquefied oxygen by sudden expansion, origin of the refrigeration and cryogenics industries.
Louis Philippe I
Louis Philippe I (Louis-Philippe Ier, 1773–1850), last king of France, reigned as roi des Français 1830–1848 over the July Monarchy; acceded after the July Revolution, converted Versailles into a history museum, and fell in February 1848.
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Égalité, 1747–1793), French prince of the blood, cousin of Louis XVI, richest duke, Palais-Royal patron, Convention deputy who voted for the king's death and was guillotined in 1793.
Louis Philippe Plateau
Louis Philippe Plateau: ice-covered plateau in central Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, about 11 by 5 miles, rising to 1,370 m, named via Terre Louis Philippe after King Louis Philippe I.
Louis Plack Hammett
Louis Plack Hammett (1894–1987) was an American physical organic chemist at Columbia University, known for the Hammett equation and the acidity function for measuring superacids.
Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin, born 1931, is a French computer engineer who invented the datagram and designed CYCLADES, a 1970s French research network whose ideas were adopted into TCP/IP.
Louis Prima
Louis Prima (1910–1978), New Orleans-born Sicilian-American trumpeter, singer, and bandleader, composer of "Sing, Sing, Sing"; his 1950s Sahara Hotel Las Vegas act with Keely Smith and Sam Butera won a Grammy and shaped lounge entertainment.
Louis R. Caplan
Louis R. Caplan, born 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American neurologist specializing in stroke, a Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who founded the Harvard Stroke Registry.
Louis R. Wasserman
Louis R. Wasserman (1910–1999) was an American hematologist who spent nearly 60 years at Mount Sinai in New York, founding its hematology department and the Polycythemia Vera Study Group.
Louis Raymond
Louis Bosman Raymond (1895–1962), South African tennis player; won men's singles gold at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics beating Japan's Ichiya Kumagae, six-time South African champion, Wimbledon semifinalist 1924, Davis Cup player 1919–31.
Louis Rees-Zammit
Louis Rees-Zammit, nicknamed Rees-Lightning, is a Welsh rugby union wing and full-back for Bristol Bears and Wales; a 2021 Lions tourist and 14-try Wales scorer who left for an 18-month, appearance-free NFL spell with the Chiefs and Jaguars before returning in 2025.
Louis Renault (jurist)
Louis Renault (1843–1918) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris who shared the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration work.
Louis Richardet
Louis Richardet (Louis Marc Richardet, 1863–1923), Swiss sport shooter; five Olympic golds (two at Paris 1900, three at the 1906 Intercalated Games), the most by any Swiss Olympian, plus 20 World Championship medals.
Louis Riel
Louis Riel (1844–1885), Métis leader, led the Red River Resistance (1869–1870), helped create Manitoba, and led the 1885 North-West Resistance; hanged for treason at Regina, he is honored as Manitoba's first premier.
Louis Rueckheim
Louis Rueckheim (1849–1927) was a German-born American confectioner in Chicago who, with his brother Frederick, created Cracker Jack in 1896, inventing the dry molasses coating that kept it crisp.
Louis Rwagasore
Louis Rwagasore (Ludoviko Rwagasore) was a Burundian prince, eldest son of King Mwambutsa IV, who founded UPRONA and was elected prime minister in 1961, weeks before his assassination.
Louis S. Goodman
Louis S. Goodman (1906–2000) was an American pharmacologist who led the first effective anticancer chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard in 1942 and co-authored The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, still the field's standard reference.
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (born 1954) is an American children's author, creator of the Wayside School series and Holes, which won the 1998 National Book Award and 1999 Newbery Medal; his first adult novel is The Magician of Tiger Castle (2025).
Louis Saha
Louis Saha (Louis Laurent Saha, born 1978, Paris) is a French former striker for Metz, Fulham, Manchester United, Everton, and Lazio; 90 league goals, 20 France caps, 2008 Champions League winner, fastest FA Cup final goal.
Louis Salkind
Louis Salkind, often printed as Lou Salkind, is an American finance and technology executive who joined D. E. Shaw & Co. as its second employee in 1988.
Louis Sarkozy
Louis Sarkozy (born 1997, Neuilly) is a Franco-American commentator and politician, youngest son of Nicolas Sarkozy and Cécilia Attias; LCI columnist, Napoleon author, and since 2026 opposition municipal councilor of Menton after losing the mayoral race to Alexandra Masson.