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Ludvig Edman

Ludvig Edman is a Swedish professor of physics at Umeå University, known for his research on light-emitting electrochemical cells and for co-founding the company LunaLEC.

Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev (Людвиг Фаддеев, 1934–2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for the Faddeev equations, the Faddeev–Popov method, and the quantum inverse scattering method.

Ludvig Hektoen

Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951) was an American pathologist and immunologist who pioneered immunology in the United States, heading pathology at the University of Chicago from 1901 to 1932.

Oct 22, 2026

Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), born in Bergen and professor at the University of Copenhagen, was a Danish-Norwegian dramatist and historian whose satirical comedies, including Jeppe på Bjerget and Erasmus Montanus, founded modern Danish-Norwegian literature.

Ludvig M. Sollid

Ludvig M. Sollid is a Norwegian immunologist and professor at the University of Oslo whose research established the genetic and immunological basis of celiac disease.

Oct 21, 2026

Ludvik Danek

Ludvík Daněk (1937–1998), Czechoslovak discus thrower, first to exceed 65 m; world records 64.55 and 65.22 m; Olympic gold Munich 1972 after silver 1964 and bronze 1968.

Ludvík Svoboda

Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979), Czechoslovak army general and Communist politician; WWI legionary, WWII commander of Czechoslovak corps in the USSR, defense minister 1945–1950, and president of Czechoslovakia 1968–1975.

Ludwig (2024 TV series)

Ludwig (2024 TV series), also Ludwig BBC comedy-drama: Mark Brotherhood's BBC One detective comedy starring David Mitchell as puzzle-setter John 'Ludwig' Taylor impersonating his missing DCI twin in Cambridge; series 2 drew 9.1 million viewers and a third series was commissioned.

Ludwig Adolf Petri

Ludwig Adolf Petri (1803–1873) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Hannover, a leading figure of the 19th-century Lutheran revival who founded the Hanoverian Pentecost Conference in 1842.

Ludwig Ahgren

Ludwig Ahgren, known as Ludwig, is an American livestreamer born 1995 whose 2021 Twitch subathon set the all-time subscriber record before his exclusive YouTube deal, 2024 return to Twitch, and event company Mogul Moves.

Oct 22, 2026

Ludwig Anzengruber

Ludwig Anzengruber, who wrote under the pseudonym Ludwig Gruber, was an Austrian dramatist and novelist known for peasant plays and the novels Der Schandfleck and Der Sternsteinhof.

Ludwig Aschoff

Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) was a German pathologist, regarded as the most important after Virchow, known for the Aschoff body, the Aschoff-Tawara node, and Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses.

Ludwig Beck

Ludwig August Theodor Beck (1880–1944), German colonel general and chief of the Army General Staff 1935–1938, resigned over Hitler's Czechoslovakia war plans, led the military resistance with Goerdeler, and died after the failed 20 July 1944 coup.

Ludwig Bieberbach

Ludwig Bieberbach (1886–1982) was a German mathematician, a student of Klein and Hilbert, whose 1916 conjecture shaped complex analysis and who became the leading ideologue of Nazi-era "German mathematics."

Ludwig Biermann

Ludwig Biermann (1907–1986) was a German theoretical astrophysicist who inferred the solar wind from comet tails in 1951 and originated the Biermann battery mechanism for cosmic magnetic fields.

Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist, born in Vienna in 1844, who founded statistical mechanics, derived the Boltzmann equation, and gave entropy a probabilistic interpretation.

Oct 22, 2026

Ludwig Börne

Ludwig Börne, born Juda Löb Baruch (1786–1837), was a German political writer and journalist who led German revolutionary liberalism from Paris exile with his Letters from Paris.

Ludwig Bruns

Ludwig Bruns (1858–1916) was a German neurologist in Hannover whose name survives in Bruns syndrome, Bruns nystagmus, and frontal ataxia, and who helped operate early spinal cord tumors.

Ludwig Diestel

Ludwig Diestel (1825–1879) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who held chairs of Old Testament exegesis at Greifswald, Jena, and Tübingen, known for his liberal, strictly historical method.

Ludwig Engel

Ludwig Engel, also known as Ludovicus Engel, was an Austrian Benedictine of Melk Abbey who taught canon law at Salzburg and served as its pro-chancellor from 1669.

Ludwig Erhard

Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German CDU politician and economist, West Germany's first Minister of Economics (1949–1963) and second Chancellor (1963–1966). Father of the social market economy and the 1948 currency and price reform behind the economic miracle; fell in the 1966/67 recession.

Ludwig Ernst von Borowski

Ludwig Ernst von Borowski (1740–1831) was a Prussian evangelical preacher and church administrator who became the only Protestant archbishop in Germany, preached to the royal couple, and wrote the first biography of Immanuel Kant.

Ludwig F. Lischer

Ludwig F. Lischer was an American electric power engineer who spent his career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, rising to vice president in charge of system planning.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), German philosopher, son of jurist Anselm von Feuerbach; author of The Essence of Christianity (1841), which argued that God is the projection of human essence and that theology is anthropology; major influence on Marx and Engels.