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Louis van Hege
Louis Marie Van Hege (Luigi, 1889-1975), Belgian forward for Union Saint-Gilloise and AC Milan (about 98 goals), 1920 Olympic football gold medalist, later 1932 Olympic bobsledder and Union vice-president.
Louis Vermeulen
Louis Vermeulen (born 1984) is a Dutch molecular oncologist who studies cancer stem cell dynamics in the intestinal lining and colorectal cancer subtypes, and leads Discovery Oncology at Genentech.
Louis VI of France
Louis VI the Fat (1081–1137), king of the Franks 1108–1137, son of Philip I; fought robber barons of the Île-de-France, repelled Emperor Henry V in 1124, unified the royal domain, advised late by Suger.
Louis VII of France
Louis VII the Younger (1120–1180), Capetian king of France 1137–1180, son of Louis VI; married Eleanor of Aquitaine (annulled 1152), led the failed Second Crusade, and was father of Philip II Augustus.
Louis VIII of France
Louis VIII the Lion (1187–1226), king of France 1223–1226, son of Philip Augustus, husband of Blanche of Castile; invaded England 1216–1217 and led the Albigensian Crusade, taking Avignon in 1226.
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton is a French luxury house founded in 1854 in Paris by trunk maker Louis Vuitton, known for its Monogram canvas and leather goods, and is the flagship brand of LVMH.
Louis Vuitton (designer)
Louis Vuitton (1821–1892) was a French trunk maker and packer who founded the eponymous luggage house in Paris in 1854, pioneered the flat-topped, stackable trunk, and served Empress Eugénie.
Louis Wain
Louis Wain (1860–1939), English illustrator famous for anthropomorphized cats; credited with popularizing cats as pets; later life in psychiatric hospitals; the famous schizophrenia cat sequence is a myth.
Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh (Michael Louis Vincent Walsh), Irish talent manager from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, creator of Boyzone and Westlife and X Factor judge 2004–2019; Celebrity Big Brother 2024.
Louis Weinstein
Louis Weinstein (1909-2000) was an American physician regarded as a founder of infectious diseases as a medical specialty, leading the field at Tufts from 1957 to 1975.
Louis Willems
Louis Willems (1822–1907) was a Belgian physician in Hasselt who showed in 1851 that inoculating cattle with diseased lung matter protects against bovine pleuropneumonia, a forerunner of Louis Pasteur.
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Ludwig Wilhelm, called Türkenlouis, "Turkish Louis"), ruled Baden-Baden from 1677 and won his greatest triumph over the Ottomans at Slankamen in 1691.
Louis Wilson (plant biochemist)
Louis Wilson (Louis F.L. Wilson) is a British plant biochemist and HHMI postdoctoral scientist at the University of Virginia who studied plant cell wall polysaccharides.
Louis Winslow Austin
Louis Winslow Austin (1867–1932) was an American physicist who researched long-range radio transmission and, with Louis Cohen, derived the Austin–Cohen formula, heading a Navy radio laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards from 1908.
Louis Wolff
Louis Wolff (1898–1972) was an American cardiologist in Boston who co-described Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome in 1930, led Beth Israel Hospital's electrocardiography laboratory from 1928 to 1964, and advanced spatial vectorcardiography.
Louis X of France
Louis X le Hutin (1289–1316), king of France 1314–1316 and Navarre from 1305, son of Philip IV; issued the 1315 serf- and Jewish-recall ordinances, failed in Flanders, died at Vincennes, leaving a succession crisis.
Louis XI
Louis XI (1423–1483), the 'universal spider,' king of France 1461–1483, son of Charles VII; defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy, annexed Burgundian and Anjou lands, doubled royal tax revenue, and left a black legend contested by modern historians.
Louis XII
Louis XII, sometimes called Louis of Orléans, was King of France from 1498 until his death in 1515, nicknamed Father of the People for his moderate government.
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (1601–1643), Bourbon king of France and Navarre 1610–1643, son of Henri IV; seized power from Marie de Médicis in 1617, ruled with Richelieu, defeated the Huguenots, and fought Habsburg Spain from 1635.
Louis XIII (cognac)
Louis XIII is Rémy Martin's ultra-premium cognac, created in 1874 by Paul-Émile Rémy Martin: a blend of up to 1,200 Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie aged 40–100 years, bottled at 40% ABV in a Baccarat decanter, retailing from just over £3,000.
Louis XIV
Louis XIV (1638–1715), the Sun King, third Bourbon king of France and Navarre; ruled personally from 1661, built Versailles, moved the court there in 1682, and embodied early modern absolutism.
Louis XV
Louis XV (1710–1774), great-grandson of Louis XIV, was king of France and Navarre 1715–1774. Known as the Bien-Aimé, he ruled under Fleury, lost the Seven Years' War and most colonies, faced parlementary revolt, and left a weakened kingdom to Louis XVI.
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France and Navarre, reigned from 1774, last monarch resident at Versailles. Convened the 1789 Estates-General over a debt crisis, fled to Varennes in 1791, and was guillotined 21 January 1793.
Louis XVII
Louis XVII (Louis-Charles de France, 1785–1795), second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, titular king of France who died in the Temple prison; over 100 pretenders, including Naundorff, were later disproved by DNA testing.
Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII (Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence), restored Bourbon King of France 1814–1824, interrupted by the Hundred Days; granted the 1814 Charter, dissolved the chambre introuvable, died 16 September 1824, succeeded by Charles X.
Louis Zamperini
Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), also known as Louie, was an American Olympic 5,000m runner (1936 Berlin), WWII B-24 bombardier, 47-day Pacific raft survivor, and tortured Japanese POW later famous through Hillenbrand's Unbroken.
Louis Zetzel
Louis Zetzel was an American gastroenterologist who led the Gastrointestinal Department at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and served as an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School.
Louis Zorich
Louis Zorich (1924-2018), American character actor and husband of Olympia Dukakis; played Burt Buchman on Mad About You (1993-1999), Tony-nominated for Hadrian VII, Broadway debut in Becket (1960).
Louis Zukofsky
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978) was an American avant-garde poet from New York City's Lower East Side, best known for the long poem "A" and for coining the term "objectivists" for 1930s modernist poets.
Louis Zutter
Louis Zutter (Jules Alexis Zutter, 1865-1946), Swiss gymnast from Neuchâtel and first Swiss Olympic champion, winning pommel horse gold plus vault and parallel bars silver at Athens 1896.