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Louise B. Russell
Louise B. Russell is an American health economist at the University of Pennsylvania and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for cost-effectiveness analysis in health and medicine.
Louise Bager Nørgaard
Louise Bager Nørgaard, later Louise Bager Due, Danish handball goalkeeper born 1982; Olympic gold 2004 with Denmark, EHF Champions League winner 2006 and 2009 with Viborg HK.
Louise Beavers
Louise Beavers (1902–1962), American film and television actress, appeared in over 150 films as maids and cooks; best known as Delilah in Imitation of Life (1934) and as Beulah on TV, replacing Hattie McDaniel.
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise Bennett-Coverley, known as Miss Lou (1919–2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, and performer who established Jamaican Creole as a literary medium over a fifty-year career.
Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan (1897–1970) was an American poet and literary critic who reviewed poetry for The New Yorker for 38 years and became the first woman Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French-American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, creator of Personnages, room-sized Cells, and the giant spider Maman; MoMA's 1982 retrospective, its first for a female artist, marked her late-career recognition.
Louise Boyce
Louise Boyce, aka Mama Still Got It, British model, content creator and Sunday Times bestselling author; mother of three, Push It Out campaigner, creator of the plastic-hands character Bernie.
Louise Brealey
Louise Brealey (Loo Brealey), English actress, writer and journalist born 1979 in Bozeat, Northamptonshire; known as Molly Hooper in BBC's Sherlock, Deb in Such Brave Girls, and Madame Hooch in HBO's Harry Potter series.
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks (Mary Louise Brooks, 1906-1985), American silent film actress, dancer, and writer from Cherryvale, Kansas; star of Pabst's Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), blacklisted after refusing sound dubbing, rediscovered in Rochester, author of Lulu in Hollywood.
Louise Brown
Louise Joy Brown, born 1978 at Oldham General Hospital, England, is the world's first IVF or "test-tube" baby, conceived by Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe, and Jean Purdy; Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Prize, and about 6 million IVF babies followed.
Louise de La Vallière
Louise de La Vallière (Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, 1644–1710), first official mistress of Louis XIV, mother of Mlle de Blois and Comte de Vermandois, later Carmelite nun Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde and author of Reflections on the Mercy of God.
Louise Dobson
Louise Dobson (Louise Karen Dobson, born 1972, Shepparton, Victoria), Australian field hockey defender and penalty striker; Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medallist, Athens 2004 dual Olympian, three-time Champions Trophy winner, and co-chair of the Australian Olympians Association.
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich, born 1954) is an Ojibwe American novelist of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, author of Love Medicine, The Round House (National Book Award), and The Night Watchman (Pulitzer), and owner of Birchbark Books.
Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher (Estelle Louise Fletcher, 1934-2022), American actress from Birmingham, Alabama; Oscar-winning Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); also Kai Winn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Louise Glück
Louise Glück (1943–2023), American poet of austere, plainspoken lyricism; author of Firstborn (1968), The Wild Iris (1992, Pulitzer), Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014, National Book Award); 2020 Nobel laureate, US poet laureate 2003–2004, Yale professor.
Louise Goffin
Louise Goffin (Louise Lynn Goffin), American singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist born 1960 in Brooklyn, daughter of Carole King and Gerry Goffin; debut Kid Blue (1979), Gilmore Girls duet, Grammy-nominated A Holiday Carole.
Louise Haigh
Louise Haigh, British Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley since 2015, former transport secretary (2024, resigned over a phone fraud conviction), and First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Andy Burnham since July 2026.
Louise Hansson
Louise Hansson (Louise Maria Hansson), Swedish swimmer born 1996 in Helsingborg; three Olympian (2016, 2020, 2024), 2021 short course world champion in 100m backstroke and record-setting medley relays; sister of Sophie Hansson.
Louise Hay
Louise Hay (1926-2017), American self-help author of You Can Heal Your Life (50+ million copies) and founder of Hay House; led the Hayride AIDS support group; taught affirmations heal illness, a claim lacking scientific evidence.
Louise Island
Louise Island (Antarctica), also Île Louise or Isla Luisa, is a 1 km ice-covered island 2 km east of Cape Anna at the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, discovered and named by Adrien de Gerlache's 1897-99 Belgian expedition for his sister.
Louise Jameson
Louise Jameson, British RADA-trained actress; played Leela, companion to Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who (1977-78), and starred in Tenko, The Omega Factor, Bergerac, EastEnders, and Emmerdale.
Louise Johncke
Louise Jöhncke (Louise Tjärnqvist), Swedish freestyle swimmer born 1976 in Stockholm; Olympic bronze in 4×100 m freestyle relay at Sydney 2000, two short-course world titles, and a 1999 short-course 4×200 m freestyle world record.
Louise Johnson
Dame Louise Napier Johnson (1940–2012) was a British biophysicist who pioneered X-ray protein crystallography of enzymes, studying lysozyme, glycogen phosphorylase, and cell-cycle protein kinases at Oxford.
Louise Karlsson
Louise Viktoria Karlsson, Swedish swimmer born 1974 in Uddevalla, short-course 100 m medley world record holder (1:01.03, 1992), 1997 world 200 m medley champion, and 1992/1996 Olympian.
Louise Kennedy (writer)
Louise Kennedy, Irish writer from Holywood near Belfast, author of Trespasses (2022) and The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac; former chef, Women's Prize shortlist, BAFTA-winning Channel 4 adaptation, lives in Sligo.
Louise Lasser
Louise Lasser (1939–2026), American actress, star of Norman Lear's satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (325 episodes, 1976–77) and Woody Allen's early films including Bananas; Emmy-nominated 1976, NBR ensemble award for Happiness.
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler, born 1947, is an American artist and photographer who photographs other artists' artworks in museums, storage, and homes to examine how context shapes meaning.
Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey is a Kenyan-based paleoanthropologist, granddaughter of Louis and Mary Leakey, who leads the Koobi Fora Research Project in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya.
Louise Lear
Louise Lear is a British broadcast weather presenter who has presented BBC forecasts since 1998, appearing on BBC Breakfast, BBC News at Six, Radio 5 Live, and Countryfile.
Louise Linton
Louise Linton (born 1980, Edinburgh) is a Scottish actress, producer, director, and writer known for Intruder, Cabin Fever (2016), and Me You Madness, and as Steven Mnuchin's wife; memoir In Congo's Shadow and 2017 Instagram controversy.