Louis



Gender:
Origin: German
7071 famous people named Louis found on Wikipedia.
396320 male, 2820 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 263-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 18-th in year 1882
Used in: Dutch, English, French

Meanings

A male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “loud battle.”.


Louis (French pronunciation: ​[lwi]) is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig (Modern German: Ludwig) and one of two English forms, the other being Lewis. The Frankish name is composed of the words for "fame" (hlōd) and "warrior" (wīg) which may be translated to famous warrior or "famous in battle".


Masc. proper name, from French Louis, from Old French Loois, probably via Medieval Latin Ludovicus, a Latinization of Old High German Hluodowig, literally "famous in war" (cognate with Clovis; for etymology see Ludwig). As the name of a French gold coin 17c.-18c., short for Louis d'or, from the French kings of that name (originally Louis XIII) pictured on the coins. Louis-Quatorze (1855) refers to styles reminiscent of the time of King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715).


Latinized form of Ludwig: combine of hlud (famous) and wig (war, battle).

Famous People: 7071 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Louis XIV of France 1638 King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
2 Louis C.K. 1967 American comedian and actor
3 Louis Tomlinson 1991 English pop singer
4 Louis XVI of France 1754 King of France and Navarre
5 Louis Armstrong 1901 American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
6 Louis Zamperini 1917 Italian-American middle distance runner
7 Lord Mountbatten 1900 British statesman and naval officer
8 Louis Theroux 1970 English journalist and broadcaster
9 Louis Farrakhan 1933 Leader of the Nation of Islam
10 Louis Pasteur 1822 French chemist and microbiologist
11 Louis van Gaal 1951 Dutch footballer
12 Louis XV of France 1710 Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre 1715-1774
13 Joe Louis 1914 American boxer
14 Louis XIII of France 1601 King of France and Navarra 1610-1643
15 Louis Walsh 1952 Irish manager in the music industry
16 Louis Philippe I 1773 King of the French
17 Louis XVIII of France 1755 Bourbon King of France and of Navarre
18 Louis XVII of France 1785
19 Louis Prima 1910 Sicilian American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter
20 Louis IX of France 1214 King of France
21 Louis Riel 1844 Canadian politician
22 Louis the Pious 0778 King of Aquitaine
23 Louis XII of France 1462 King of France
24 Louis Saha 1978 French footballer
25 Louis Slotin 1910 Canadian physicist and chemist
26 Louis Braille 1809 Inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired
27 Louis Jourdan 1921 Actor from France
28 Louis Smith 1989 British gymnast
29 Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou 1974 Spanish noble
30 Louis Brandeis 1856 American Supreme Court Justice
31 Louis B. Mayer 1884 Film producer
32 Louis de Funès 1914 French actor and comedian
33 Louis Malle 1932 French film director, screenwriter, and producer
34 Louis XI of France 1423 King
35 Louis Kahn 1901 American architect (1901-1974)
36 Louis Koo 1970 Hong Kong actor
37 Louis Oosthuizen 1982 Professional golfer
38 Louis Cyr 1863 Canadian strength athlete
39 Louis Althusser 1918 French political philosopher
40 Louis de Broglie 1892 French physicist
41 Louis L'Amour 1908 Novelist, short story writer
42 Louis Garrel 1983 French actor
43 Louis VII of France 1120 King of France
44 Martin St. Louis 1975 Canadian ice hockey player
45 Louis Gossett 1936 American actor
46 Louis Sullivan 1856 American architect
47 Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France 1781 Prince of France
48 Louis VIII of France 1187 King of French
49 Louis Daguerre 1787 French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor
50 Louis Mandylor 1966 Australian soccer player
51 Louis Vuitton 1821 French fashion designer and businessman
52 Louis Smolka 1991 American martial artist
53 Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848 American stained glass and jewelry designer
54 Louis Aliot 1969 French politician
55 Louis Le Prince 1841 Cinema pioneer
56 Louis Freeh 1950 American judge
57 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia 1907 Prince of Prussia
58 Louis Chevrolet 1878 Motor company founder and racecar driver
59 Louis Sachar 1954 American writer of children's books
60 Louis Jordan 1908 American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader
61 Louis Riddick 1969 Player of American football
62 Louis Cole 1983 British film-maker and YouTube personality
63 Louis Leakey 1903 British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa
64 Louis Leterrier 1973 French film director
65 Louis Buchalter 1897 American mobster
66 Louis VI of France 1081 King of France
67 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans 1747 French duke
68 Louis Wain 1860 English artist
69 Louis de Pointe du Lac
70 Louis St. Laurent 1882 12th Prime Minister of Canada
71 Louis Conradt 1950 American lawyer
72 Louis Bonaparte 1778 King of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte
73 Louis Antoine de Saint-Just 1767 Military and political leader
74 Louis Ferreira 1966 Portuguese-Canadian actor
75 Louis Agassiz 1807 Swiss naturalist
76 Louis X of France 1289 King of France and of Navarre
77 Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp 1994 Son of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
78 Louis Fan 1973 Hong Kong actor
79 Louis Till 1922 American soldier, accused of raping and murdering Italian Women
80 Louis Ducruet 1992 Monegasque royal
81 Louis Johnson 1955 American musician
82 Louis the German 0806 Frankish king
83 Louis I of Hungary 1326 King of Hungary and Croatia
84 Louis IV of France 0920 King of Western Francia
85 Louis Calhern 1895 American stage and screen actor
86 Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême 1775 Dauphin of France
87 Louis Bacon 1956 American hedge fund manager
88 Louis Held 1996 German actor
89 Louis II, Prince of Monaco 1870 Prince of Monaco
90 Louis Earl Goodman 1892 United States federal judge
91 Louis Van Amstel 1972 Ballroom dance champion and choreographer.
92 Louis Herthum 1956 American actor and producer
93 Louis the Stammerer 0846 King of Burgundy
94 Louis Cheung 1979 Hong Kong singer and actor
95 Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse 1837 German noble
96 Louis Mustillo 1958 American actor
97 Louis Zorich 1924 American actor
98 Louis Ozawa Changchien 1975 American actor
99 Louis of Valois 1549 French prince
100 Louis Hayward 1909 British actor born in South Africa
101 Louis Botha 1862 South African politician
102 Louis Bodin 1957 French meteorologist
103 Louis Blériot 1872 French aviator, inventor and engineer
104 Marcus Louis 1991
105 Louis Nix III 1991 American football player
106 Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1282 Holy Roman Emperor
107 Louis Vasquez 1987 Player of American football
108 Harry Louis 1987
109 Louis Ferrante 1969 American mobster
110 Louis Emerick 1960 British actor
111 Louis Stokes 1925 American politician
112 Louis V of France 0967 King of France
113 Louis de Montfort 1673 French Roman Catholic priest and confessor
114 Louis I of Spain 1707 King of Spain
115 Louis Chiron 1899 Racecar driver
116 Louis Jolliet 1645 Canadian explorer
117 Louis de Bernières 1954 English novelist
118 Louis Aragon 1897 French poet, novelist and editor
119 Spyridon Louis 1873 Greek athlete
120 Louis Picamoles 1986 French rugby union player
121 Louis Dega 1890 Prisoner in French Guiana
122 Jean Louis 1907 French costume designer
123 Louis Nye 1913 American actor
124 Louis Fratto 1907 American mobster
125 Louis II of Hungary 1506 King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia
126 Louis Moult 1992 Footballer
127 Louis MacNeice 1907 Poet
128 Louis Hunter 1992 Australian actor
129 Louis II of Italy 0825 Holy Roman Emperor
130 Louis the Child 0893 King of East Francia and Lotharingia
131 Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1829 American musician
132 Louis V. Gerstner 1942 American businessman
133 Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien 1772 French aristocrat
134 Louis Spohr 1784 German composer, violinist and conductor
135 Louis Bachelier 1870 Mathematician
136 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1729 French admiral and explorer
137 Louis Blanc 1811 French politician and historian
138 Louis Delort 1993 French singer
139 Louis Lombardi 1968 American actor
140 Séraphine Louis 1865 French naive-style painter
141 Louis Roederer 1809 Wine merchant
142 Louis Leon Thurstone 1887 American psychologist & scholar
143 Louis Rukeyser 1933 American journalist
144 Louis de Buade de Frontenac 1622 Governor of New France
145 Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine 1670 French noble
146 Louis I, Duke of Orléans 1372 French noble
147 Louis Adlon 1874 German hotel manager
148 Louis Capone 1896 American mobster
149 Louis Sockalexis 1871 American baseball outfielder
150 Louis Bromfield 1896 American author and conservationist
151 Louis Réard 1897 French fashion designer
152 Louis Auguste Blanqui 1805 French socialist and political activist
153 Louis Hendrik Potgieter 1951 South African singer and ballet dancer
154 Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 1725 French duke
155 Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse 1777 Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
156 Louis Bertignac 1954 French guitarist, singer and songwriter
157 Louis Kuehnle 1857 American business entrepreneur and politician
158 Louis Ignarro 1941 American physiologist
159 Louis A. Johnson 1891 Politician
160 Louis Renault 1877 French industrialist
161 Louis Chauvin 1881 American ragtime pianist
162 Louis T. Leonowens 1856 Son of Anna Leonowens
163 Louis Nicollin 1943 French businessman and football chairman
164 Louis Meintjes 1992 South African cyclist
165 Louis Delmas 1987 American Football safety for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
166 Louis Klamroth 1989 German actor
167 Louis Washkansky 1913 Recipient of the first human heart transplant
168 Louis Andriessen 1939 Dutch composer and pianist
169 Louis Murphy 1987 American football player, wide receiver
170 Louis Gaudinot 1984 American martial artist
171 Louis Untermeyer 1885 American poet
172 Morris Louis 1912 American painter
173 Louis Laforge 1968 French journalist
174 Louis Vivet One of the first mental health patients to be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder
175 Louis Vierne 1870 French organist and composer
176 Louis Nirenberg 1925 Canadian mathematician
177 Louis Jouvet 1887 French actor
178 Louis Waldon 1934 American film actor
179 Édouard Louis 1992 French writer
180 Louis Thompson 1994 Footballer
181 Louis Edmonds 1923 American actor
182 Louis Facciolo 1941 American mbster
183 Louis Howe 1871 American journalist
184 Louis III of France 0863 King of France
185 Louis I, Duke of Bourbon 1279 Duke of Bourbon
186 Louis Dunbar 1953 American basketball player-coach
187 Louis Consalvo 1958 American mobster
188 Louis Price 1953 American musician
189 Louis Le Vau 1612 French architect
190 Louis Wolheim 1880 American character actor
191 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1675 French writer
192 Jefferson Louis 1979 Footballer
193 Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé 1736 French noble
194 Louis Desaix 1768 French general
195 Louis Cartier 1875 Jeweller
196 Louis Marino 1932 American mobster
197 Louis Hennepin 1626 French explorer and missionary
198 Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald 1754 French philosopher
199 Louis the Blind 0880 Frankish king; "Holy Roman Emperor"
200 Louis Morissette 1973 Canadian actor and screenwriter