Louise
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Louise or Luise may refer to:
In music:
- Louise (opera), opera by Gustave Charpentier
- Louise (singer), British singer
- Louise is a song by the band The Human League from their 1984 album Hysteria
In acting:
- Johanne Luise Heiberg, one of the greatest Danish actresses of the 19th century
- Louise Brooks, American silent film actress
- Louise Fletcher, Academy Award-winning American actress
- Louise Lasser, American actress
- Louise Donovan, oscar award winning actress
In royalty:
- Archduchess Luise, Princess of Tuscany, daughter of Ferdinand IV of Tuscany and his second wife Alicia of Parma
- Louise Mountbatten, queen of Sweden
- Marie Luise von Degenfeld, countess
- Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, the only daughter and the seventh child of Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Viktoria
In literature:
- Luise Aston, German author
- Louise Bogan, poet
- Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator
- Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet
- Luise von Ploennies, German poet born at Hanau on the 7th of November 1803
- Marie-Luise Gothein, Prussian scholar, gardener and author
In sports:
- Louise Brough, American tennis player
- Luise Krüger, German athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin
In other fields:
- Lake Louise, Alberta
- Louise Arner, American explorer
- Louise Blanchard Bethune, architect
- Louise Bourgeois, French sculptor
- Luise Brunner, one of only two women to have ever reached the rank of Chief Senior Overseer
- Viktoria-Luise-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn), Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U4
- The Louise, a luxury vineyard retreat in the Barossa Valley of South Australia