Louise (given name)

Louise, Louise, Luisa or Louisa is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

  • The feminine form of the French name Louis, derived from the Old German Ludwig ( hlut = famous, wig = war = " famous warrior " )
  • From Old High Aloisia, very wise
  • From the Celtic, also the way
  • Descended from Elisabeth

Variants

  • Louiza (Arabic )
  • Luisa (Spanish or Italian)
  • Louise, Louisa (French)
  • Luize, Loisa
  • Luiza ( Polish)
  • Luise ( German )
  • Lovisa ( Swedish)
  • Heloise
  • Luisa ( Italian)
  • Luísa ( Portuguese)
  • Ludovica (Latin )
  • Lulu (short form)
  • Lou (short form)
  • Ise (short form)
  • Lujza ( Slovak)

Name-day

March 15, May 11, July 24, October 17, November 10, December 18

Famous names winners

Luise

  • Luise of Anhalt- Dessau (1631-1680), Duchess of Legnica, Brieg, Wohlau and Ohlau
  • Luise of Anhalt- Bernburg (1799-1882), by marriage Princess of Prussia
  • Luise of Anhalt- Dessau (1709-1732), daughter of Leopold I of Anhalt -Dessau
  • Luise Ulrike of Prussia (1720-1782), Prussian Princess and Queen of Sweden
  • Luise of Brandenburg- Schwedt (1750-1811) Princess and Duchess of Anhalt- Dessau
  • Luise Marie Auguste Princess of Baden (1779-1826), Grand Duchess of Russia and Empress of Russia, see Louise of Baden
  • Louise of Baden (1811-1854), Princess of Baden
  • Louise Egloff (1804-1835), Swiss poet
  • Luise Kraushaar (1905-1989), German resistance fighter and historian
  • Louise of Mecklenburg -Strelitz (1776-1810), Queen Louise of Prussia
  • Louise Henriette of Orange (1627-1667), Princess of Orange - married to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg
  • Louise of Austria - Tuscany (1870-1947), Crown Princess of Saxony, wife of Frederick Augustus III.
  • Luise Marie Elisabeth of Prussia (1838-1923), daughter of Emperor Wilhelm I.
  • Louise of Savoy (1476-1531), Duchess of Angoulême
  • Louise of Savoy ( Blessed ) ( 1462-1503 ), French nobleman and a nun in the Order of Poor Clares
  • Luise F. Pusch (* 1944), German linguist
  • Luise Rainer (* 1910), German -American actress
  • Luise Rinser (1911-2002), German writer
  • Luise Händlmaier (1910-1981), Factory Antin
  • Boar Luise (1984-1998), world's first wild boar as a tracer for animal drugs and explosives at the police
  • Viktoria Luise of Prussia (1892-1980), daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Louise

  • Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939), daughter of Queen Victoria
  • Louise de Marillac (1591-1660), foundress and saint
  • Louise of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1724-1751), Queen of Denmark
  • Louise Beck (1822-1879), Bavarian mystic
  • Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French - American sculptor
  • Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American film actress, actress in GW Pabst films
  • Louise of Hesse- Kassel (1817-1898), Queen of Denmark
  • Louise of Mecklenburg (1667-1721), Queen of Denmark
  • Louise Mushikiwabo (* 1957), Rwandan politician
  • Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), American sculptor
  • Louise Redknapp ( born 1974 ), English singer
  • Louise of Sweden - Norway (1851-1926), Queen of Denmark
  • Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (born 1958 ), American singer, actress, dancer and author
  • Code name of the agent Violette Szabo French (1921-1945)

Fictional people

  • Luise from Kabale und Liebe (1784 ), domestic tragedy by Friedrich Schiller
  • Luise - a German Muslim, film ( 2007) by Beatrix Schwehm
  • Luise (1798 ), by Johann Heinrich Voss epic
  • Luise Koschinsky, comedy figure of Hans -Werner Olm
  • Louise from The Silent Serenade ( 1954), opera / operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Luise von Briest from Effi Briest (1894 ), novel by Theodor Fontane
  • Louise " Liza and Louise " by NOFX
  • Louise in " Thelma & Louise " ( road movie )
  • Luise Palfy in " Lottie and Lisa " by Erich Kästner
  • Luise Pogge in " dots and Anton" by Erich Kästner

Other spellings

Also note these other spellings:

  • Louise, Lujza, Louisa, Luisa, Luiza, Loisa

More

  • Galerie Luise, shopping mall in Hanover
  • Gute Luise, Pear
  • Luis choice Königsberg City Park in the hooves district
  • Luisendenkmal (Königsberg )
  • Luise (ship, 1872), a corvette of the Imperial Navy
  • Luise (ship, 1906), a freighter, a museum ship in Göhren
  • Luis Park Luis Park Mannheim
  • Luis Park ( Erfurt)
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