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Louis or Louÿs may refer to the French name Louis, or the following:
[edit] Royalty
- Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Louis, Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465
- Louis I of Hungary, King of Hungary and Poland in the late 14th century
- Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of the emperor Lothair I
- Louis II, Prince of Monaco, the Sovereign Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 until 9 May 1949
- Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the most celebrated representative of the Condé branch of the Bourbon dynasty of France
- Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526
- Louis III of France, king of Western Francia
- Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis II
- Louis IV of France, king of France from 936 to 954
- Louis V of France, son of the Frankish king Lothair and his wife Emma
- Louis VI of France, King of France from 1108 to 1137
- Louis VI the Roman, the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland
- Louis VII of France, King of France from 1137 to 1180
- Louis VIII of France, King of France from 1223 to 1226
- Louis IX of France, King of France from 1226 until his death
- Louis X of France, King of France from 1314 to 1316
- Louis XI of France, King of France
- Louis XII of France, King of France
- Louis XIII of France, King of France from 1610 to 1643
- Louis XIV of France, King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death just prior to his seventy-seventh birthday
- Louis XV of France, King of France from 1715 until his death
- Louis XVI of France, King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791
- Louis XVII of France, the son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette
- Louis XVIII of France, King of France and Navarre from 1755 until his death in 1824
- Louis XIX of France, King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 before his abdication
- Louis of Spain, the eldest son of Philip V of Spain by his first Queen consort Maria Louisa of Savoy
- Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan, French bishop of Strasbourg, politician, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Louis the Child, the last true Carolingian ruler of East Francia
- Louis the German, the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife
- Louis the Pious, Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death
- Louis the Stammerer, the eldest son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans
- Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
- Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the last Emperor of the French from 1852 until 1870
[edit] Science
[edit] Economy
- Louis (coin), gold coin issued by the kings of France
- Louis Rukeyser, U.S. business columnist, economic commentator, and television personality
[edit] Business
[edit] Literature
- Louis dressing, salad dressing
- Louis Riel, Canadian politician, a founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis
- Louis Braille, inventor of braille
- Louis Jolliet, French explorer, one of the first Europeans to reach the northern part of the Mississippi River
- Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer
- Louis Michel, Commissioner responsible for Development and Humanitarian Aid.
- Jean Louis, Costume designer
- Louis Quinze, style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XV of France
- Louis the Yard Teacher, character in Sideways Stories From Wayside School
- Lou, the boss of the final guitar battle in Guitar Hero 3.
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