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Luis Gonzalez
Luis Gonzalez refers to several athletes: MLB outfielder Luis Emilio Gonzalez (1967, Tampa), 2001 World Series champion with Arizona; Argentine midfielder Lucho González (1981), 2004 Olympic football gold medalist; and Colombian swimmer Luis Eduardo González (1925–2019).
Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican American character actor born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side; former social worker turned actor known for Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, Traffic, and as Gomez Addams in Netflix's Wednesday.
Luis Herrera Campins
Luis Herrera Campins (1925-2007), Venezuelan lawyer and COPEI leader, president 1979-1984; won the 1978 election with 46.7%, governed through the 1983 Black Friday devaluation, promoted PDVSA internationalization and major public works.
Luis Herrera-Estrella
Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella is a Mexican plant molecular biologist who pioneered the first transgenic plants at Ghent University and now works at Texas Tech University and Cinvestav.
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters is a Peruvian archaeologist and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, known for excavating Moche priestess tombs at San José de Moro since 1991.
Luis José de Orbegoso
Luis José de Orbegoso (Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada, 1795-1847) was a Peruvian landowner, soldier, and politician, provisory president of Peru from 1833 to 1835.
Luis Kafie
Luis Kafie is a Honduran businessman who founded the electricity generator Lufussa with his brothers Schucry and Eduardo Kafie in 1994, and also leads Lacthosa and Panama's Generadora del Istmo.
Luís Kandjimbo
Luís Kandjimbo, pen name of Luís Domingos Francisco, is an Angolan essayist, literary critic, and writer born in 1960, and a former Vice-Minister of Culture of Angola.
Luís Korrodi
Luís Korrodi-Gregório is a biochemist and biotech executive who co-founded Flomics Biotech, a Barcelona company developing RNA-based blood tests for early cancer detection, in 2018, serving as chief business officer.
Luis Lara
Luis Alexander Lara, Brewers Venezuelan outfielder, born 2004 in San Felipe; signed for $1.1M in 2022, 2025 Minor League Gold Glove center fielder, MLB debut July 7, 2026, seven-year contract through 2032.
Luis Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine biochemist who discovered sugar nucleotides and their role in carbohydrate biosynthesis, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry while directing a research institute in Buenos Aires for forty years.
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe is an Argentine paleontologist who studies the origin and early evolution of birds and leads research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Luis M. Liz‐Marzán
Luis M. Liz-Marzán is a Spanish chemist and Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastián, known as a pioneer in nanoplasmonics and the colloidal synthesis of plasmonic metal nanoparticles.
Luis Manzano
Luis Manzano (Luis Philippe Santos Manzano, nicknamed Lucky) is a Filipino actor, comedian, and ABS-CBN TV host, son of Edu Manzano and Vilma Santos, known for hosting Kapamilya Deal or No Deal, Pilipinas Got Talent, Minute to Win It, and Pinoy Big Brother.
Luis María Drago
Luis María Drago (1859–1921) was an Argentine jurist, diplomat, and foreign minister whose 1902 note opposing armed collection of public debts became the Drago Doctrine.
Luis Martín-Santos
Luis Martín-Santos (1924–1964) was a Spanish psychiatrist, novelist, and anti-Franco militant, known for Tiempo de silencio (1962), the novel that opened the experimental phase of postwar Spanish fiction.
Luis Meléndez
Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) was a Spanish painter, the leading still-life painter of 18th-century Spain, known for about one hundred still lifes of foodstuffs and kitchen vessels.
Luis Mendes de Vasconcelos
Luis Mendes de Vasconcelos (Luís Mendes de Vasconcelos) was a Portuguese commander who served as Governor of Angola from 1617 to 1621, waging a slave-raiding war against Ndongo.
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel (Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, born 1970, San Juan, Puerto Rico), Mexican singer called El Sol de México; child star from 1982, bolero revivalist via Romance (1991), 100 million records, multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy wins.
Luís Montenegro
Luís Montenegro, born in Porto in 1973, is a Portuguese politician who has served as Prime Minister of Portugal since 2024 and leads the Social Democratic Party.
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Argentine lawyer, first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2003-2012) and deputy prosecutor in Argentina's 1985 Juntas Trial; later author of Guerra o Justicia.
Luis Muñoz (footballer, born 2011)
Luis Muñoz (born 2011) is an English attacking midfielder in Arsenal's academy, an England U15/U16 international, and the youngest ever UEFA Youth League player at 13 years 343 days. Not the Málaga footballer José Luis Muñoz León.
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, also called Isla Verde International Airport, is the main and busiest airport of Puerto Rico, located in Carolina near San Juan.
Luis Muñoz Rivera
Luis Muñoz Rivera (1859–1916) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and statesman who led the campaign for self-government and shaped the Jones Act of 1917.
Luis Muriel
Luis Fernando Muriel Fruto (born 1991, Santo Tomás, Colombia) is a Colombian forward for Junior FC; ex-Deportivo Cali, Udinese, Sampdoria, record Sevilla signing, Atalanta, Orlando City; 45 Colombia caps, 8 goals.
Luís Neves
Luís Neves (Luís António Trindade Nunes das Neves), Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration since 23 February 2026 and former national director of the Polícia Judiciária (2018–2026), known for the João Rendeiro capture and ETA cases.
Luis Nicolao
Luis Alberto Nicolao Yanuzzi, Argentine swimmer born 1944 in Buenos Aires; set 100 m butterfly world records of 58.4 and 57.0 in Rio de Janeiro in April 1962; competed at the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Olympics.
Luis Ortiz (Cuban boxer)
Luis "King Kong" Ortiz, Cuban southpaw heavyweight born 1979 in Camagüey; 343-19 amateur, defected 2009, WBA interim champion, lost twice to Deontay Wilder for the WBC title.
Luis Paz‐Ares
Luis Paz-Ares is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, who heads medical oncology at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid and the joint H12O-CNIO lung cancer research unit.
Luis Perez (American football)
Luis Perez, nicknamed the "King of Spring," is an American quarterback who won the 2023 XFL title with Arlington and led the UFL in passing yards in 2024 and 2025.