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Louis Scheffer
Louis Scheffer is an electrical engineer turned neurobiologist and Principal Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, best known as lead author of the 2020 fruit fly brain connectome.
Louis Scott
Louis Scott, full name Henry Louis Scott, was an American long-distance runner from Paterson, New Jersey, who won gold in the 3,000-meter team race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Louis Secco
Louis John Secco (1927–2008), Canadian ice hockey forward from Trail, British Columbia; won 1952 Oslo Olympic gold with the Edmonton Mercurys, Canada's last hockey gold until 2002; declined a New York Rangers offer.
Louis Sharp
Louis Sharp, New Zealand and British racing driver born 2007, raised in Christchurch; first back-to-back British F4 (2023) and GB3 (2024) champion with Rodin, now in FIA Formula 3.
Louis Siminovitch
Louis Siminovitch (1920–2021) was a Canadian molecular biologist and geneticist, called the father of genetic research in Canada, who helped discover bacteriophage lysogeny and stem cell self-renewal.
Louis Slotin
Louis Alexander Slotin (1910–1946) was a Canadian physicist at Los Alamos who assembled the first atomic bomb's core and died nine days after a criticality accident in 1946.
Louis Smith (gymnast)
Louis Smith (Louis Antoine Smith, born 1989, Peterborough) is a retired British pommel horse specialist; four Olympic medals (bronze 2008, silver and bronze 2012, silver 2016), 2015 European champion, MBE, Strictly 2012 winner.
Louis Smolka
Louis Smolka, known as "Da Last Samurai," is an American mixed martial artist from Hawaii who competed in the UFC at flyweight and bantamweight from 2014 to 2022.
Louis Sockalexis
Louis Francis Sockalexis (1871–1913), Penobscot outfielder from Old Town, Maine, first Native American MLB player, Cleveland Spiders 1897–99, .338 rookie average; the Cleveland "Indians" name-honor story is unproven.
Louis Sokoloff
Louis Sokoloff (1921–2015) was an American neuroscientist who led NIMH's Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism and developed the 2-deoxyglucose method for mapping brain activity, the basis of PET imaging, winning the 1981 Lasker Award.
Louis St. Laurent
Louis St. Laurent (Louis-Étienne St-Laurent, 1882–1973), twelfth prime minister of Canada 1948–1957, Liberal; brought Newfoundland into Confederation, founded NATO role, built Trans-Canada Highway and St. Lawrence Seaway, defeated by Diefenbaker in 1957.
Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes (1925–2015), Cleveland attorney and brother of mayor Carl Stokes, was Ohio's first Black congressman, serving 15 terms from 1968 to 1999, first Black member of House Appropriations, and Terry v. Ohio counsel.
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan, also known as Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924), was a Chicago architect of the firm Adler & Sullivan who shaped the early skyscraper and coined "form ever follows function."
Louis T. Rader
Louis T. Rader was an American electrical engineer and executive who led computer and process-control businesses at GE, Univac, and ITT, then taught at the University of Virginia.
Louis Taillefer
Louis Taillefer (born 1959) is a Canadian experimental condensed-matter physicist known for work on unconventional superconductors, and a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke until 2025.
Louis the German
Louis the German (c. 804–876), Louis II of the East Franks, Carolingian king of Bavaria from 817 and East Francia from 843 by the Treaty of Verdun; victor at Fontenoy 841, Treaty of Meerssen 870, founder of the German kingdom, died Frankfurt 876.
Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (Louis I, 778–840), also called le Débonnaire, was Charlemagne's only surviving son and Carolingian emperor 814–840, known for the Ordinatio Imperii of 817, the Soissons penance of 833, and the civil wars that split the empire.
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux, British-American documentary filmmaker and broadcaster, creator of Weird Weekends (1998-2000), When Louis Met..., My Scientology Movie (2015), and Mindhouse; known for faux-naive immersive interviewing of subcultures and extremists.
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere is a 2026 Netflix feature documentary, directed by Adrian Choa, following Theroux in Miami, New York, and Marbella meeting manosphere influencers including HSTikkyTokky, Sneako, and Myron Gaines; premiered March 11, 2026.
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a 2025 BBC Two documentary in which Louis Theroux returns to the occupied West Bank to meet Israeli settlers, fourteen years after The Ultra Zionists.
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: BBC Two documentary series (1998–2000, 3 seasons, 16 episodes) in which Louis Theroux embeds with fringe American subcultures using a faux-naive style; won him a 2001 BAFTA and Richard Dimbleby Award.
Louis Thomassin
Louis Thomassin (1619–1695) was a French Oratorian theologian and priest, ranked with Denis Pétau among the masters of positive theology, who wrote on dogma, canon law, and pedagogy.
Louis Till
Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, was a U.S. Army private executed by court-martial in Italy in 1945 for rape and murder; his LT signet ring later identified his son's body, and his 1955 disclosure was used against the Till family.
Louis Tomlinson
Louis Tomlinson, English singer-songwriter born 1991 in Doncaster, One Direction member with 38 co-writes; solo albums Walls, Faith in the Future, and How Did I Get Here? (2026).
Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977), American poet, critic, and prolific anthologist of Modern American Poetry; former New York jeweler, What's My Line panelist removed in 1951, and Library of Congress poetry consultant 1961-1963.
Louis V. Avioli
Louis V. Avioli was an American endocrinologist at Washington University who pioneered vitamin D research and founded the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Louis V. Pirsson
Louis V. Pirsson was an American geologist and petrologist, professor at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, and co-developer of the quantitative classification of igneous rocks published in 1902 and 1903.
Louis Van Beeck
Louis Van Beeck, Belgian archer of Schaerbeek, won two golds and one silver in men's team moving-bird target archery at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, his only Games.
Louis Van De Perck
Louis Van De Perck (Jan Lodewijk Van De Perck, 1889-1953), Belgian archer from Hoboken; at Antwerp 1920 he won gold in both pole archery team events and silver in both individual events, four medals total.
Louis van Gaal
Louis van Gaal is a Dutch football manager, recognized for winning the 1995 UEFA Champions League with Ajax and seven total league titles in three nations.