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Luis Borroto
Luis Borroto (Luis Borroto Jiménez), Cuban right-handed pitcher born 1982 in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara; won 2004 Olympic baseball gold with Cuba and pitched 13 Serie Nacional seasons, 88-59, 3.56 ERA.
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), Spanish-Mexican surrealist filmmaker from Calanda, Aragon. Directed Un chien andalou with Dalí (1929), L'Âge d'or, Los olvidados, Viridiana, Belle de jour; career 1929–1977 marked by censorship.
Luis Caffarelli
Luis Caffarelli is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin who works on partial differential equations and won the 2023 Abel Prize.
Luis Campos (organic chemist)
Luis Campos, also known as Luis M. Campos, is an American organic chemist at Columbia University working on polymer synthesis and organic electronic materials, honored with a 2015 PECASE.
Luis Caputo
Luis Caputo is an Argentine politician serving as Minister of Economy, appointed by Javier Milei; he earlier served under Mauricio Macri as finance secretary, finance minister, and Central Bank president.
Luis Cardoza y Aragón
Luis Cardoza y Aragón (1901 or 1904–1992) was a Guatemalan poet, essayist, and art critic who lived in exile in Mexico, best known for Guatemala, las líneas de su mano (1955).
Luis Carlos Galán
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (1943-1989), Colombian Liberal politician and founder of Nuevo Liberalismo, former education minister and 1982 presidential candidate, assassinated in Soacha on 18 August 1989 while leading the 1990 presidential race.
Luis Carlos López
Luis Carlos López, or el Tuerto López, was a Colombian poet known for bringing the prosaic, everyday details of provincial life into Spanish American poetry.
Luís Carlos Prestes
Luís Carlos Prestes (1898–1990) was a Brazilian army officer and communist politician who led the Prestes Column and served decades as secretary-general of the Brazilian Communist Party.
Luis Carrero Blanco
Luis Carrero Blanco (1903-1973), Spanish admiral and Franco's closest collaborator from 1941, became prime minister in June 1973; ETA assassinated him with a 50 kg car bomb in Madrid on 20 December 1973.
Luís Castro (footballer, born 1961)
Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro (born 1961, Vila Real) is a Portuguese football manager, not the 1980-born Levante coach. Led Shakhtar Donetsk, Botafogo, Al-Nassr, and Grêmio; five titles including the 2019/20 Ukrainian Premier League; dismissed by Grêmio in September 2026.
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidón (1902–1963) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 whose complete poetry is gathered under the title La realidad y el deseo.
Luis Cobos
Luis Cobos is a Spanish conductor, arranger, and composer born in 1948, whose 1982 album Zarzuela, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, sold a million copies.
Luis Cordero Crespo
Luis Cordero Crespo, also known as Luis Dolores Cordero Crespo, was an Ecuadorian president, diplomat, and poet who published the first Quechua–Spanish dictionary in Ecuador.
Luís D. Carlos
Luís D. Carlos (born 1964) is a Portuguese physicist and Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, known for luminescence nanothermometry, reading temperature from light at the nanoscale.
Luis D. Ortiz
Luis D. Ortiz is a Puerto Rican real estate broker and television personality best known as a cast member of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York from 2013.
Luís da Cunha
Luís da Cunha (1662–1749) was a Portuguese diplomat and political writer who served at Utrecht and proposed moving the Portuguese court to Rio de Janeiro in his Instruções Políticas.
Luís de Albuquerque de Melo Pereira e Cáceres
Luís de Albuquerque de Melo Pereira e Cáceres (1739–1797) was a Portuguese colonial administrator, the fourth governor of the Captaincy of Mato Grosso from 1772 to 1789.
Luís de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Marquês do Lavradio
Luís de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Marquês do Lavradio, was a Portuguese nobleman who served as Viceroy of Brazil from 1769 to 1779, reorganizing colonial administration and promoting agriculture.
Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões (c. 1524/5–1580) was a Portuguese poet and soldier, regarded as Portugal's national poet and author of the 1572 epic Os Lusíadas, which celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) was a Spanish Baroque poet from Córdoba, the leading exponent of culteranismo, known for the Fábula de Polifemo and the unfinished Soledades.
Luis de la Fuente (footballer, born 1961)
Luis de la Fuente Castillo (born 1961, Haro, La Rioja), Spanish left-back for Athletic Club and Sevilla, now Spain head coach since December 2022, winner of the Nations League 2023, Euro 2024, and World Cup 2026.
Luis de León
Luis de León, or Fray Luis de León, was a Spanish Augustinian friar, poet, and professor at the University of Salamanca, imprisoned by the Inquisition from 1572 to 1576.
Luis de Lión
Luis de Lión, pen name of José Luis de León Díaz, was a Kaqchikel Maya Guatemalan writer and teacher, considered Guatemala's first indigenous writer in Spanish.
Luis de Morales
Luis de Morales, called El Divino, was a Spanish Renaissance painter who worked in Badajoz, Extremadura, becoming the leading Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century.
Luis de Valdivia
Luis de Valdivia (1561–1642) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in colonial Chile who promoted the "defensive war" policy and wrote the first known Mapuche grammar.
Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa
Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa (1742–1809), conde de Figueiró, was a Portuguese magistrate and colonial administrator who served as the twelfth viceroy of Brazil from 1779 to 1790.
Luis de Velasco
Luis de Velasco (1511 to 1564) was a Spanish noble who served as viceroy of Navarre and, from 1550, as the second viceroy of New Spain.
Luis de Velasco, Marquis of Salinas
Luis de Velasco, Marquis of Salinas was a Spanish colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain twice (1590–1595 and 1607–1611) and of Peru in between, dying in 1617.
Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1997)
Luis Díaz (Lucho), Colombian forward born 1997 in Barrancas; starred at Porto and Liverpool (Premier League 2024-25), joined Bayern Munich in 2025 for up to €75m; Copa América 2021 joint top scorer with Colombia.