Louis (given name)

Louis is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig and one of two English forms,[1] the other being Lewis (/ˈluːɪs/). 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".[2]

Louis
Louis XIV, King of France (1643–1715)
PronunciationUK: /ˈluːi/
US: /ˈluːɪs/
French: [lwi]
GenderMale
Language(s)French and English
Origin
Word/nameFrench
MeaningFamous warrior (Ludwig)
Other names
Alternative spellingLouys
DerivedLouise
Related namesLouie, Clovis, Lewis, Ludovico, Luigi, Luis, Ludvig, Ludwig, Lodewijk, Lodewyk, Alois
See alsoLothar
Robert, name with a similar meaning

Variant forms

Feminine variants
  • Arabic: لويز
  • Belarusian: Луіза (Luiza)
  • Chinese Simplified: 路易丝 (Lùyìsī)
  • Chinese Traditional: 路易絲 (Lùyìsī)
  • Croatian: Alojzija
  • Danish: Lovise
  • Dutch: Louisa, Louise, Ludovica
  • English: Louisa, Lou, Louella, Lula, Luella
  • Estonian: Loviise
  • Finnish: Loviisa
  • French: Lou, Louise, Louisette
  • German: Aloisia, Louisa, Luise, Lulu, Luisa
  • Greek: Λουίζα (Louíza)
  • Gujarati: લુઇસ (Lu'isa)
  • Hebrew: לואיז
  • Hindi: लुइस (Lu'isa)
  • Hungarian: Lujza
  • Italian: Lodovica, Ludovica, Luigia, Luisa, Gigia, Gina, Ginetta, Luigina, Luisella
  • Japanese: ルイーザ (Ruīza), ルイ (Rui)
  • Kannada: ಲೂಯಿಸ್ (Lūyis)
  • Korean: 루이사 (Luisa)
  • Lithuanian: Liudvika
  • Maori: Ruiha
  • Macedonian: Лујза (Lujza), Лојза (Lojza)
  • Mongolian: Луиза (Luiza)
  • Nepali: लुइस (Lu'isa)
  • Norwegian: Lovise
  • Persian: لوئیس
  • Polish: Ludwika, Luiza
  • Portuguese: Luísa, Luiza
  • Romanian: Luiza
  • Serbian: Луиз (Luiz)
  • Slovak: Alojzia
  • Slovene: Alojzija
  • Spanish: Luisa, Luisina, Luisita
  • Swedish: Lovisa, Lova
  • Tamil: லூயிஸ் (Lūyis)
  • Telugu: లూయిస్ ( Lūyis)
  • Thai: หลุยส์ (H̄luys̄̒)
  • Ukrainian: Луїза (Luyiza)
  • Urdu: لوئیس

Arts and entertainment

Politics

Royalty
See also: King Louis (disambiguation)

Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany

Kings of France

Other French royalty

Kings of Etruria

Kings of Holland
  • Louis I Bonaparte, King of Holland from 1806 to 1810
  • Louis II Bonaparte, King of Holland in 1810, also Grand Duke of Berg

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

Princes of the United Kingdom

Dukes and Kings of Bavaria

Grand-Duke of Berg
  • Louis, Grand Duke of Berg from 1809 to 1813, also King of Holland as Louis II

Grand-Dukes of Hesse

Duke of Savoy

Duke of Württemberg

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Science and innovation

Sports

Others
  • Louis Botha (1862–1919), South African politician, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, one of the principal commanders of the Second Boer War
  • Louis Congo (c. 1725), emancipated slave, appointed public executioner of Louisiana
  • Louis Le Duff, French billionaire businessman
  • Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during World War I
  • Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (born 1942), chairman and CEO of IBM
  • Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
  • Louis-Frédéric Lescure (1904–1993), French industrialist
  • Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979), last Viceroy of India and first Governor-General of independent India, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Louis Palander (1842-1920], Swedish naval officer
  • Louis (parrot), parrot from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, well-provided for by owner's will after her death in 1949
  • Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Louis Pope (b.1947), American businessman
  • Louis B. Schwartz (1913–2003), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp (born 1994), heir apparent to earldom.
  • Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), American World War II veteran, Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner, best known for being a Japanese POW survivor.

Fictional characters
  • Louis de Pointe du Lac, character in the Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice
  • Louis the Alligator, from film The Princess and the Frog
  • Louis Litt, character played by Rick Hoffman in Suits
  • Louis Tully, character played by Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
  • Louis Wu, character in the Ringworld books by Larry Niven
  • Louie Duck, Disney character
  • Louis, one of the protagonists of Left 4 Dead
  • Louis, a protagonist of the Japanese manga series Beastars

See also

References
  1. Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Louis". Behind the Name.
  2. Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Ludwig". Behind the Name.
  3. M. Petrossian (ed.). New Dictionary Armenian-English. Librairie de Beyrouth.
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