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Luís Pinto (footballer, born 1989)
Luís Pinto (Luís Miguel Correia Pinto, born 1989, Porto) is a Portuguese football manager and former defender, now Gil Vicente FC head coach; Segunda Liga champion with Tondela 2024/25 and Taça da Liga winner with Vitória de Guimarães in 2026.
Luis Planas Puchades
Luis Planas Puchades is a Spanish politician and career civil servant who has served as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food since June 2018, and is a candidate for FAO Director-General.
Luis R. Conriquez
Luis R. Conriquez (Luis Roberto Conriquez Magdaleno, born 1996, Caborca, Sonora), also called El Rey de los Corridos Bélicos, is a Mexican regional Mexican singer whose Corridos Bélicos series and songs like JGL and Siempre Pendientes with Peso Pluma pioneered the corridos bélicos subgenre.
Luis Rafael Sánchez
Luis Rafael Sánchez, born in 1936 in Humacao, Puerto Rico, is a playwright and novelist regarded as the most internationally recognized Puerto Rican writer of his generation.
Luis Resto (boxer)
Luis Resto, Puerto Rican boxer, beat Billy Collins Jr. on June 16, 1983 at Madison Square Garden with tampered gloves and plaster-soaked wraps; result changed to no contest, lifetime ban, prison.
Luis Rosales
Luis Rosales, full name Luis Rosales Camacho, was a Spanish poet and critic of the Generation of '36 who won the 1982 Premio Cervantes, Spain's highest literary award.
Luis Rosero-Bixby
Luis Rosero-Bixby is a Costa Rican demographer and epidemiologist who led the CRELES longevity study and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Luis Rubiales
Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar (born 1977), Spanish lawyer and former RFEF president (2018-2023) and UEFA vice-president, banned three years by FIFA and Spain and convicted of sexual assault for kissing Jenni Hermoso at the 2023 Women's World Cup final.
Luis Sánchez Cerro
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was a Peruvian military officer who overthrew President Augusto B. Leguía in 1930, led a junta, and was elected president of Peru in 1931.
Luis Scola
Luis Scola, Argentine power forward born 1980, NBA 2007-2017 (Rockets, Suns, Pacers, Raptors, Nets), 2004 Olympic gold, 2010 World Cup top scorer, now CEO of Pallacanestro Varese.
Luis Sequeira
Luis Sequeira is a Costa Rican-born plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980 and known for research on bacterial wilt and induced resistance.
Luis Sera
Luis Sera (Luis Serra Navarro), a supporting character in Resident Evil 4 (2005) and its 2023 remake: a researcher for Saddler on Las Plagas who aids Leon, and a playable Mercenaries character unlocked at Rank A.
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano (Luís Serrano Pubul, born 1959) is a Spanish systems and synthetic biologist who led the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and created the FoldX protein-design software.
Luis Severino
Luis Severino (Pena), born 1994 in Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic, is an Athletics right-handed starting pitcher, two-time All-Star (2017, 2018) with the Yankees, later Mets, holding a 75-61, 3.93 ERA career record.
Luis Sinisterra
Luis Sinisterra (Luis Fernando Sinisterra Lucumí), Colombian winger born 1999; Feyenoord, Leeds United, Bournemouth, now Cruzeiro; 18 Colombia caps, 5 goals; recurring muscle injuries.
Luis Sojo
Luis Sojo (Luis Beltran Sojo), Venezuelan infielder born 1965 in Caracas; 13 MLB seasons, utility man on four Yankees World Series titles (1996-2000) plus 1993 Toronto; hit the clinching single in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series; later Yankees coach, international manager, and Leones del Caracas sports manager.
Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez, full name Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz, is a Uruguayan striker born in 1987 who plays for Inter Miami CF and is Uruguay's all-time leading scorer with 69 goals.
Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)
Luis Suárez Miramontes (1935–2023), Spanish midfielder nicknamed The Architect; Barcelona and Inter star, 1960 Ballon d'Or winner, the only Spanish-born male recipient until Rodri, and Euro 1964 champion with Spain.
Luis Taruc
Luis Taruc (1913–2005), "El Supremo," Filipino peasant leader who commanded the Hukbalahap guerrillas against Japan from 1942, led the postwar Huk rebellion, and surrendered to President Magsaysay on 17 May 1954.
Luis Tiant
Luis Tiant (El Tiante), Cuban-born MLB right-handed pitcher (1940-2024) for Cleveland, Boston, and others; 229-172, 3.30 ERA, 1968 ERA title, 1975 World Series hero, never elected to the Hall of Fame.
Luis Towers
Luis Towers, also known as Louis Towers or El Rasta, is a Colombian champeta singer-songwriter from San Basilio de Palenque, known for 'El Liso en Olaya'.
Luis Ulacia
Luis Ulacia, also known as Luis Ulacia Álvarez, is a Cuban former outfielder and shortstop who won Olympic gold in 1992 and 1996 and silver in 2000.
Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez (born 1940, Delano, California) is the American playwright and director called the godfather of Chicano theater, founder of El Teatro Campesino in 1965 during the Delano Grape Strike and creator of Zoot Suit, the first Latino play on Broadway.
Luis Vidales
Luis Vidales, full name Luis Nelson Vidales Jaramillo, was a Colombian avant-garde poet and communist militant whose 1926 book Suenan timbres made him a central figure of the Colombian vanguard.
Luis Villegas
Luis Antonio Villegas is a Venezuelan politician and military officer, Minister of Popular Power for Industries and National Commerce since 2026, after leading the commerce ministry from 2024.
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn, born in Guatemala in 1978, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-invented CAPTCHA, created reCAPTCHA, and co-founded Duolingo, where he is chief executive.
Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez (Luis Alvarez) was an American experimental physicist at Berkeley who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for the hydrogen bubble chamber.
Luis Yu Jr.
Luis Yu Jr. is a Filipino real estate developer who founded and chairs 8990 Holdings, a low-cost housing developer whose DECA Homes brand has delivered more than 100,000 units since 2007.
Luis Zayas (social worker)
Luis H. Zayas is an American social work scholar and Provost of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2023, known for research on children of deported immigrants.
Luisa De Cola
Luisa De Cola is an Italian supramolecular chemist known for luminescent host–guest systems and zeolite-based optical materials, and since 2020 a professor at the University of Milan.