Louis (given name)

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Louis

Louis XIV was king of France (1643-1715)
Gender Male
Language(s) Germanic
Origin
Word/Name French
Meaning Famous warrior (Ludwig)
Other names
Alternative spelling Louys
Derived Louise
Related names Louie, Clovis, Lewis, Ludovico, Luigi, Luis, Ludvig, Ludwig, Lodewijk, Lodewyk
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Louis (UK /ˈluːiː/ or US /ˈluːɪs/; French pronunciation: ​[lwi]) is the French form of the Germanic given name Chlodowech (modern German Ludwig) and one of two English forms,[1] the other being Lewis (/ˈluːɪs/). The Germanic name is composed of the words for "fame" (hlūd) and "warrior" (wīg) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".[2]

Variant forms

Arts and entertainment

Politics

  • Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), American Supreme Court justice and Zionist leader
  • Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (1734–1803), French religious leader and politician
  • Louis Farrakhan (born 1933), Afro-American social leader
  • Louis Lingg (1864–1887), German anarchist arrested after Haymarket Square bombing
  • Louis Michel (born 1947), Belgian politician
  • Louis Riel (1844–1885), Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis

Royalty

Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany

  • Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death
  • Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of the emperor Lothair I
  • Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal grandson of the emperor Louis II
  • Louis the German (Louis II), the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
  • Louis the Child (Louis III), the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia
  • Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Kings of France

Other French royalty

Kings of Hungary

  • Louis the Great, (Louis I of Hungary) Apostolic King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342, King of Poland from 1370
  • Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526

King of Portugal

  • Louis I of Portugal (1838–1889), succeeded to his older brother Peter V in 1861

King of Spain

  • Louis I of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy

Princes of Monaco

Dukes and Kings of Bavaria

Grand-Dukes of Hesse

Duke of Savoy

Science and innovation

Sports

  • Louis Babrow (1915–2004), South African rugby union player
  • Louis Baise (born 1927), South African Olympic wrestler
  • Lou Boudreau (1917–2001), American, Hall of Fame baseball player and manager
  • Lou Brock (born 1939), American baseball player
  • Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
  • Louis Clarke (1901–77), American Olympic track champion
  • Louis van Gaal (born 1951), Dutch footballer and manager
  • Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player
  • Louis Jani (born 1957), Canadian judoka
  • Louis Kaplan (1901–1970), nicknamed "Kid Kaplan", Russian-born American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer
  • Louis Klotz (born 1921), nicknamed "Red", American NBA basketball player and owner of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals
  • Louis Pilot (born 1940), Luxembourgian footballer and manager
  • Louis Rubenstein (1861–1931), Canadian world champion Hall of Fame figure skater
  • Louis Saha (born 1978), French footballer

Others

Fictional characters

See also

  • Louis (disambiguation)
  • Louise
  • Louie
  • Llewellyn (name)
  • Sigurd Hlodvirsson

References

  1. ↑ "Louis at www.behindthename.com". 
  2. ↑ "Ludwig at www.behindthename.com". 
  3. ↑ M. Petrossian (ed.). New Dictionary Armenian-English. Librairie de Beyrouth. 
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