Louise (given name)
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Louise and Luise are, respectively, French and German feminine forms of Louis. Louise has been regularly used as a female name in English speaking countries since the middle of the 19th century. A true and accurate meaning is: warrior.
Examples of famous women named Louise or Luise include:
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[edit] Acting
- Louise Brooks, an American silent film actress
- Louise Fletcher, an Academy Award-winning American actress
- Louise Harrison, a British actress
- Louise Lasser, an American actress
- Louise Plowright, a British actress
- Luise Rainer, a German actress
- Louise Sorel, an American actress
[edit] Fiction
- Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, main female character and tsundere in Zero no Tsukaima novels and anime adaptation
- Louise the Lady of Violets, wife of the sage Lord Pent and a character in the Fire Emblem franchise
[edit] Literature
- Luise Aston, a German author
- Louise Bogan, a poet
- Luise Gottsched, a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator
- Louise Hay, an author and founder of Hay House Publishing
- Luise Hensel, a German religious author and poet
- Luise von Ploennies, a German poet born at Hanau on the 7th of November 1803
[edit] Royalty
- Louise Mountbatten, the Queen of Sweden
- Marie Luise von Degenfeld, a countess
- Louise of Savoy, the Queen of France (1476–1531)
- Archduchess Luise, Princess of Tuscany, the daughter of Ferdinand IV of Tuscany and his second wife Alicia of Parma
- Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Queen of Prussia (1776–1810)
[edit] Sports
- Louise Brough, an American tennis player
- Luise Krüger, a German athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin
[edit] Other
- Louise Arner, an American explorer
- Louise Blanchard Bethune, an architect
- Louise Bourgeois, a French sculptor
- Luise Brunner, one of only two women to have ever reached the rank of Chief Senior Overseer
- Louise Faulkner, a missing/murdered Australian woman
- Louise Redknapp, a British singer