Louis (given name)
Louis is the French form of the masculine name Ludwig. For the female form see Louise, Louise, Luisa or Louisa.
In French, the name [ lui ] is pronounced. In other languages that have adopted it, for example, in German or in English, which is most audible s: [ luis ]. The Spanish spelling, which is also found in German, is Luis, the Portuguese Luís, the Catalan Lluís.
Origin and Meaning
Louis is the French form of Old High German Ludwig. Ludwig was from the Old High German words hlut for " loud, famous ', and wig for" wrestle "or" fight "is formed.
Dissemination
Before the eighties the name Louis ( Luis ) was rarely awarded in Germany. However, in the nineties, he became increasingly popular. Since the mid- 2000s, he finds himself among the ten most- awarded boy name.
Well-known bearers of the name
Ruler
- See List of rulers named Ludwig
First name
- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss- American zoologist, paleontologist and geologist
- Louis Althusser (1918-1990), French philosopher
- Louis Joseph André (1838-1913), French general and politician
- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), American jazz trumpeter and singer
- Louis -Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815), Prince and Duke of Neuchâtel and Valengin, Prince of Wagram, Marshal of France
- Louis Blériot (1872-1936), French aviation pioneer
- Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), American race car driver and entrepreneur
- Louis Delluc (1890-1924), French film director and writer
- Louis E. Denfeld (1891-1972), American admiral
- Louis Fauche - Borel (1762-1829), Swiss typographer and bookseller
- Louis de Funès (1914-1983), French actor, director, film producer and comedian
- Louis van Gaal ( born 1951 ), Dutch football coach and players
- Louis Hayward (1909-1985), British actor
- Louis Jacobi (1836-1910), German architect and archaeologist
- Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974), American architect and town planner
- Fred Louis Lerch (1902-1985), an Austrian film actor
- Louis Malle (1932-1995), French film director
- Louis Montoyer (1749-1811), Belgian - Austrian architect
- Louis Navire (1936-2001), Italian writer, see Luigi Naviglio
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist
- Louis Prima (1910-1978), Italian- American entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter
- Louis René Édouard de Rohan Guéméné (1735-1803), Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg
- Louis Roth (1843-1929), Austrian operetta composer and conductor
- Louis Rougier (1889-1982), French philosopher
- Louis Schönherr German designer and entrepreneur, inventor of the power loom
- Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff (1825-1892), German entrepreneur
- Louis Joseph Seutin (1793-1862), a Belgian physician and surgeon
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish writer
- Louis Tsatoumas (* 1982 ), Greek long jumper
- Louis Tomlinson (* 1991), member of the boy band One Direction
- Louis Vuitton (entrepreneur) ( 1821-1892 ), French entrepreneur
- Louis Wright ( born 1953 ), U.S. American football player
Family name
- Alfred Louis ( * 1949 ), German mathematician
- Antoine Louis (1723-1792), French physician and physiologist
- Daniel Louis ( born 1953 ), Canadian film producer
- Frank Louis ( * 1966), German sculptor and university teacher
- Gérard Louis -Dreyfus ( born 1932 ), French - American entrepreneur
- Gilbert Louis ( born 1940 ), French priest, Bishop of Châlons
- Herbert Louis ( geographer ) ( 1900-1985 ), German geographer
- Herbert Louis ( painter) ( 1923-2006 ), German painter
- Jean Louis (actually Jean Louis Berthault; 1907-1997 ), French - American costume designer and fashion designer
- Jerome Louis ( 1987), Namibian football player
- Jimmy Jean- Louis ( born 1968 ), Haitian actor and model
- Joe Louis (1914-1981), American boxer
- Joe Hill Louis ( be-bop Boy; 1921-1957 ), American blues musician
- Joseph Nemours Pierre -Louis (1900-1966), Haitian Politician, President of Haiti
- Julia Louis -Dreyfus ( born 1961 ), American actress
- Louis Louis (1814-1894), German jurist and member of the German Reichstag
- Michèle Pierre- Louis ( born 1947 ), Haitian politician
- Morris Louis (1912-1962), American painter
- Pierre Louis -Dreyfus (1908-2011), French race car driver
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872), founder of the clinical statistics
- Richard Louis ( b. 1964 ), Barbadian track and field athlete
- Robert Louis (1902-1965), French heraldist
- Robert Louis -Dreyfus (1946-2009), a French-Swiss entrepreneurs
- Roy Louis (born 1954 ), Dutch jazz musicians
- Rudolf Louis (1870-1914), German musician, writer and music critic
- Séraphine Louis (1864-1942), French painter
- Spyridon Louis (1873-1940), Greek long-distance runner
- Stephen Louis (1954-2011), German entrepreneur
- Suzanne Louis- Lane (born 1965 ), English badminton player
- Tristan Louis (born 1971 ), French publicist
- Victor Louis (1731-1800), French architect
- Xerces Louis (1926-1978), French football player and coach
Fictional characters
- Louis Wu, the main character from the Ringworld universe
- Louis, the trumpet -playing alligator from The Princess and the Frog ( engl. The Princess and the Frog) Walt Disney animated film from 2009