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Louis-Antoine de Noailles
Louis-Antoine de Noailles (1651–1729) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Paris from 1695 to 1729, best known for leading the French bishops' appeal against the papal bull Unigenitus.
Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922) was a French physician and histologist who held the chair of general anatomy at the Collège de France from 1875 and gave his name to the node of Ranvier.
Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain
Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain (1796–1867) was a French philosopher, theologian, and priest who taught philosophy at Strasbourg, was censured for fideist teachings on faith and reason, and later held the Sorbonne chair of moral theology.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894–1961), French novelist and physician, author of Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) and Mort à crédit (1936), revolutionary stylist and author of antisemitic pamphlets 1937–1941.
Louis-François de Bausset
Louis-François de Bausset (1748–1824) was a French Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alès from 1784, who became a cardinal, peer of France, and member of the Académie française.
Louis-François Roubiliac
Louis-François Roubiliac was a French-born sculptor active in England, celebrated for his seated Handel statue at Vauxhall Gardens, dramatic Westminster Abbey tombs, and portrait busts of Pope and Newton.
Louis-Henri de Lestrange
Louis-Henri de Lestrange, in religion Dom Augustin de Lestrange, was a French Trappist abbot who rebuilt the Order of La Trappe in exile during the French Revolution.
Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald
Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald (1787–1870) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon, created cardinal in 1841, who built ten churches and helped originate the Fête des Lumières.
Louis-Jean Résal
Louis-Jean Résal (1854–1919) was a French bridge engineer of the corps des Ponts et Chaussées who designed the pont Mirabeau and pont Alexandre III in Paris.
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas Davout (d'Avout), Duke of Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmühl, French marshal (1770-1823); undefeated except alongside Suchet, victor of Auerstaedt 1806, governor of Hamburg, war minister in 1815.
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698) was a French Jansenist priest and ecclesiastical historian known for his Mémoires on the first six centuries of the Church.
Louis-Siffren-Joseph Salamon
Louis-Siffren-Joseph Salamon, also recorded as Louis-Siffrein-Joseph de Salamon, was a French Catholic prelate who survived the September massacres of 1792 and later served as Bishop of Saint-Flour.
Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765)
Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765), also styled Louis Ferdinand or Louis-Joseph-Xavier, was Louis XV's only son to reach adulthood and father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X; he died of tuberculosis on 30 December 1765.
Louis, Duke of Burgundy
Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), grandson of Louis XIV, eldest son of the Grand Dauphin, pupil of Fénelon, husband of Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, and father of Louis XV; died of measles months after becoming Dauphin.
Louis, Duke of Guyenne
Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397–1415), also Louis de France, dauphin, eldest surviving son of Charles VI; heir caught between Armagnacs and Burgundians, brokered the peaces of Chartres and Auxerre, married Marguerite of Burgundy.
Louis, Grand Dauphin
Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661-1711), eldest son of Louis XIV, called Monseigneur; heir who never reigned, father of Philip V of Spain and grandfather of Louis XV, died of smallpox at Meudon.
Louis, Prince Napoléon
Louis, Prince Napoléon (Louis Napoléon Bonaparte), twentieth-century Bonapartist pretender and head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte; Foreign Legion and Resistance veteran, husband of Alix de Foresta, grandfather and dynastic predecessor of Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.
Louisa Adams
Louisa Adams, born Louisa Catherine Johnson, was the London-born wife of President John Quincy Adams and first lady from 1825 to 1829, the first foreign-born first lady.
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt is an Australian psychologist and epidemiologist who studies the prevalence and health harms of illicit drug use, and is Research Director of NDARC at UNSW Sydney.
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie), Anglo-Irish matriarch born in British India, widowed 1928, moved her family from Bournemouth to Corfu in 1935; mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, later portrayed by Keeley Hawes in ITV's The Durrells.
Louisa Jacobson
Louisa Jacobson (Louisa Jacobson Gummer), American actress, youngest child of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer; plays Marian Brook in HBO's The Gilded Age, her 2019 TV debut, with 2025 film Materialists and off-Broadway Trophy Boys.
Louisa Johnson
Louisa Johnson (born 1998) is an English pop singer from Thurrock, Essex, youngest-ever winner of The X Factor UK (2015, twelfth series). Known for "Tears" with Clean Bandit (UK No. 5, platinum) and singles "Forever Young" and "So Good"; left Syco in 2018.
Louisa Krause
Louisa Krause (born 1986, Falls Church, Virginia) is an American actress known for The Girlfriend Experience season 2, Billions, Ray Donovan, King Kelly, Bluebird, and The Flick; distinct from German actress Luisa Krause.
Louisa Levy
Louisa Levy is an American TV writer and producer, creator and showrunner of Prime Video's Off Campus (2026), adapted from Elle Kennedy's novels; previously wrote for The Flight Attendant, Death and Other Details, Stumptown, and Doubt.
Louisa Lytton
Louisa Lytton (Louisa Claire Lytton), English actress born 1989 in Camden, London; played Ruby Allen in EastEnders (2005–2025) and PC Beth Green in The Bill; also Strictly Come Dancing fourth-place finisher and stage actress.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American author born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, raised in Concord, Massachusetts, best known for Little Women (1868-69) and also wrote sensation fiction under pseudonyms A. M. Barnard and Flora Fairfield; Civil War nurse whose Hospital Sketches (1863) made her famous.
Louisa Moritz
Louisa Moritz (Luisa Cira Castro Netto), Cuban-American actress and lawyer; played Rose in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Myra in Death Race 2000; birth and death dates disputed across sources.
Louisa Pesel
Louisa Frances Pesel (1870–1947) was an English embroiderer, teacher and collector; Director of the Royal Hellenic School in Athens, first President of the Embroiderers' Guild, and leader of the Winchester Cathedral embroideries.
Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour (born 1947) is a Canadian jurist, former Supreme Court of Canada justice, ICTY/ICTR chief prosecutor who indicted Slobodan Milosevic, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2004–2008, and Canada's 31st Governor General since June 2026.
Louise Attaque
Louise Attaque is a French folk-rock band formed in Paris in 1994 and named after anarchist Louise Michel, whose violin-driven 1997 debut is among the best-selling French rock albums.