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Louise Lombard
Louise Lombard (Louise Maria Perkins, born 1970, London) is an English actress known for Evangeline Eliott in The House of Eliott, Sofia Curtis on CSI, Lara Macy in NCIS: Los Angeles, and roles in Hidalgo, the After films, and Oppenheimer (2023).
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard, also known as Louise Howard, is a British perinatal psychiatrist and Professor Emerita of Women's Mental Health at King's College London, appointed OBE in 2023.
Louise Mandrell
Louise Mandrell (Thelma Louise Mandrell, born 1954, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American country singer, multi-instrumentalist, and younger sister of Barbara Mandrell; RCA hitmaker of the 1980s and Pigeon Forge theater headliner.
Louise Mensch
Louise Mensch (Louise Bagshawe), born 1971, British Conservative MP for Corby 2010-2012, chick-lit novelist with 2 million sales, Murdoch committee questioner, later Heat Street journalist in New York covering Trump-Russia.
Louise Michel
Louise Michel (1830–1905), the Red Virgin, French anarchist, feminist, and schoolteacher; Paris Commune militant, deported to New Caledonia, supported the 1878 Kanak uprising, and ran a libertarian school in London.
Louise Minchin
Louise Minchin, British journalist and broadcaster, presented BBC Breakfast for 20 years until 2021, anchors Rip Off Britain, chairs the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction judges, writes thrillers, and competes as a GB age-group triathlete.
Louise Mitchell
Louise Mitchell is a fictional character in the British soap opera EastEnders, a member of the Mitchell family played by four actresses, including Tilly Keeper, from 2001 to 2020.
Louise Mountbatten
Louise Mountbatten (1889–1965), born Princess Louise of Battenberg, was Queen of Sweden 1950–1965 as wife of Gustaf VI Adolf, a WWI Red Cross nurse in France, sister of Lord Louis Mountbatten, and stepmother to five stepchildren, distinct from Lady Louise Windsor.
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (Leah Berliawsky, 1899–1988), Ukrainian-born American sculptor of monochromatic wood assemblages such as Sky Cathedral, Dawn's Wedding Feast, and Mrs. N's Palace.
Louise O. Fresco
Louise O. Fresco (born 1952) is a Dutch agronomist and food-system scholar who led the FAO's agriculture department and was president of Wageningen University & Research from 2014 to 2022.
Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Louise of Hesse-Kassel (Louise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie; 1817–1898) was Queen of Denmark as wife of Christian IX from 1863. Her succession claim brought the Glücksburg dynasty to Denmark, and her children's marriages made the couple "Europe's parents-in-law".
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Luise, 1776-1810), queen consort of Prussia as wife of Frederick William III, dominant at court from 1797, failed plea at Tilsit 1807, died 1810, later 'mother of the nation' cult figure.
Louise Penny
Louise Penny, born Toronto 1958, Canadian crime author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series set in fictional Three Pines, Québec; 18 million copies, 32 languages, eight Agatha Awards, Clinton collaboration State of Terror.
Louise Pentland
Louise Pentland, also known as Sprinkle of Glitter, is an English vlogger, author, and podcaster born 1985, a pioneering British YouTube motherhood creator with five Sunday Times bestselling books and an NSPCC ambassadorship.
Louise Pilote
Louise Pilote is a Canadian general internist and clinical epidemiologist, a McGill professor and Deputy Director of the RI-MUHC, known for research on sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease.
Louise Post
Louise Post (born 1967, St. Louis) is an American singer-guitarist, co-founder and sole constant member of alternative rock band Veruca Salt ('Seether', American Thighs, Ghost Notes), and solo artist whose 2023 debut solo album is Sleepwalker.
Louise Prakash
Louise Prakash is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for discovering DNA polymerase eta's role in bypassing UV damage.
Louise Redknapp
Louise Redknapp (Louise Nurding), English pop singer: Eternal member from 1992, solo from 1995 with platinum album Naked (1996); 12 Top 20 singles; Strictly 2016 finalist; albums Heavy Love (2020) and Confessions (2025).
Louise Ritter
Louise Ritter (Dorothy Louise Ritter), American high jumper born 1958 in Dallas, Texas; 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medalist at 2.03 m, beating Stefka Kostadinova in a jump-off; 10-time US record holder and 1983 World bronze medalist.
Louise Ryan
Louise Ryan is an Australian biostatistician, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney and adjunct professor at Harvard, known for statistical methods for cancer and environmental health research.
Louise Sandher-Jones
Louise Sandher-Jones, Labour MP for North East Derbyshire since 2024 and a former Intelligence Corps officer who served in Afghanistan, is the UK Minister for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence from June 2026.
Louise Sorel
Louise Sorel (born August 6, 1940) is an American actress known for soap villainesses Augusta Lockridge on Santa Barbara and Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives since 1992, with five Soap Opera Digest Awards.
Louise T. Chow
Louise T. Chow (周芷) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for codiscovering RNA splicing in adenoviruses in 1977 and for her research on human papillomaviruses.
Louise Tracy
Louise Tracy (1896–1983), wife of actor Spencer Tracy, founded the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles in 1942, a parent-centered oral school for preschool deaf children; not the Australian researcher or other namesakes.
Louise Trotter
Louise Trotter (born 1969, Sunderland) is a British fashion designer and creative director of Bottega Veneta since January 2025, succeeding Matthieu Blazy; previously led Carven, Lacoste (first female creative director), and Joseph.
Louise W. Flanagan
Louise W. Flanagan is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina since 2003, appointed by George W. Bush.
Louise Weard
Louise Weard (born 1994, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian trans filmmaker behind Computer Hearts, CyberCraft Video, and the Hi8-shot Castration Movie epic, a landmark of transgender underground cinema distributed by Muscle Distribution and Matchbox Cine.
Louise Woodward case
The Louise Woodward case was a 1997 Massachusetts trial involving a British au pair. The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the reduction of the murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter in 1998.
Louise, Princess Royal
Louise, Princess Royal (Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, 1867–1931), Duchess of Fife, British princess; distinct from Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939) and Louise of Great Britain (1724–1751), Queen of Denmark.
Louisiade Archipelago
Louisiade Archipelago, island chain in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, southeast of New Guinea; over 80 islands named by Bougainville in 1768 after Louis XV, with Tagula the largest, extensive barrier reefs, high coral diversity, and sea cucumber and shark fin fisheries.