Louis

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Louis, Louÿs or Ludwig may refer to:

Contents 1 Royalty 2 Music 3 Science 4 Art 5 Economy 6 Business 7 Literature 8 Other 9 See also

[edit] Royalty

• Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• Louis, Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465
• Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary and Poland in the late 14th century
• Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of the emperor Lothair I
• Louis II, Prince of Monaco, the Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949
• Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the most celebrated representative of the Condé branch of the Bourbon dynasty of France
• Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526
• Louis III of France, king of Western Francia
• Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis II
• Louis IV of France, king of France from 936 to 954
• Louis V of France, son of the Frankish king Lothair and his wife Emma
• Louis VI of France, King of France from 1108 to 1137
• Louis VI the Roman, the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland
• Louis VII of France, King of France from 1137 to 1180
• Louis VIII of France, King of France from 1223 to 1226
• Louis IX of France, King of France from 1226 until his death
• Louis X of France, King of France from 1314 to 1316
• Louis XI of France, King of France
• Louis XII of France, King of France
• Louis XIII of France, King of France from 1610 to 1643
• Louis XIV of France, King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday
• Louis XV of France, King of France from 1715 until his death
• Louis XVI of France, King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791
• Louis XVII of France, the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette
• Louis XVIII of France, King of France and Navarre from 1814 until his death in 1824
• Louis of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy
• Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, French bishop of Strasbourg, politician, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Louis the Child, the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia
• Louis the German, the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
• Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death
• Louis the Stammerer, the eldest son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans
• Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the last Emperor of the French from 1852 until 1870

[edit] Music

• Louis (artist), a Korean pop singer
• Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
• Louis Jordan, pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter

[edit] Science

• Louis Palovits, engineer
• Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist and chemist
• Louis Wirth, American sociologist

[edit] Art

• Louis Wain, painter

[edit] Economy

• Louis (coin), gold coin issued by the kings of France
• Louis Rukeyser, U.S. business columnist, economic commentator, and television personality

[edit] Business

• Louis Chevrolet, racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
• Louis Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO of IBM corporation

[edit] Literature

• Louis de Pointe du Lac, fictional character in the Vampire novels of Anne Rice
• Louis Sachar, American author of children's books
• Pierre Louÿs, French novelist and poet

[edit] Other

• Louis (name), the French form of the German name Ludwig
• Louis dressing, salad dressing
• Louis Braille, inventor of braille
• Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer
• Jean Louis, Costume designer
• Morris Louis, painter
• Louis Quinze, style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XV of France

[edit] See also

• Luis
• List of names derived from Clovis
• Louisburg
• Louisiade
• Louisiana (disambiguation)
• Louisville (disambiguation)