Louise

Variants

Aloisia: German, Italian, Spanish

Aloisie: Czech

Alojza: Polish

Alojzia: Hungarian, Slovak

Alojzija: Slovene

Heloísa: Portuguese

Labhaoise: Irish

Liisa: Finnish, Estonian

Liudvika: Lithuanian

Lluïsa: Catalan

Loes: Dutch

Lou: English, French

Louella: English

Louisa: English

Louise: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish

Louiza: Greek (Λουίζα), Kabyle

Louize: Danish, Dutch

Lova: Swedish

Loviisa: Finnish

Loviise: Estonian

Lovisa: Swedish

Lovise: Danish, Norwegian

Lu: English

Luana: English, Portuguese

Luann: English

Luanne: English

Ludovica: Italian, Latin

Ludwika: Polish

Luella: English

Luigia: Italian

Luigina: Italian

Luisa: Italian, Spanish, Estonian

Luísa: Portuguese

Luise: German, Estonian

Luisella: Italian

Luīz: Portuguese, English

Luiza: Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian (Луиза), Albanian

Luīze: Latvian

Lujza: Hungarian, Slovak

Lula: English

Lulu: English, German

Luyiza: Ukrainian (Луїза)

Ruiha: Māori

People with the name

Arts

Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), American architect

Louise Bennett (1919–2006), Jamaican poet and folklorist

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French sculptor

Louise Cotnoir (1948–2024), Canadian writer

Louise Murray (1854–1931), American local historian and museum director

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), American sculptor

Louise Robert (1941–2022), Canadian painter

Louise Schatz (1916–1997), Canadian-born Israeli artist and designer

Louise Théo (1854–1922), French singer

Louise Cooper Spindle (1885–1968), American composer

Entertainment

Louise Abuel (born 2003), Filipino teen actor

Louise Beavers (1902–1962), African-American film and television actress

Louise Bourgoin (born 1981), French actress

Louise Brealey (born 1979), English actress

Louise Brooks (1906–1985), American silent film actress

Louise Cardoso (born 1955), Brazilian actress, producer and theatre instructor

Louise delos Reyes (born 1992), Filipino actress

Louise Fletcher (1934–2022), American actress

Louise Gold (born 1956), British actress and puppeteer

Luise Gruber (born 1982), Austrian blues singer-songwriter professionally known as Saint Lu

Louise Harman (born 1985), British rapper better known as Lady Sovereign

Louise Harrison, British actress

Louise Jameson (born 1951), British actress

Louise Labèque (born 2003), French actress

Louise Lasser (born 1939), American actress

Louise Linden (1862–1934), American saxophonist

Louise Madison (1911–1970), American tap dancer

Literature

Louise Adler (born 1954), Australian publisher and academic

Luise Aston (1814–1871), German author

Louise Bogan (1897–1970), American poet

Louise Bombardier (born 1953), Canadian actress and writer

Louise Briggs (1870–1945), English teacher and Esperanto translator

Louise Compain (1869–1941), French feminist author

Louise Cooper (fantasy writer) (1952–2009), British writer

Louise Erdrich (born 1954), American novelist and poet

Louise Flodin (1828–1923), Swedish journalist and publisher

Louise E. Francis (1869–1932), American journalist, editor, publisher, and author

Louise Glück (1943–2023), American poet and essayist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

Luise Gottsched (1713–1762), German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator

Louise Granberg (1812–1907), Swedish playwright

Louise Hay (1926–2017), American motivational author and publisher

Luise Hensel (1798–1876), German religious author and poet

Louise Herschman Mannheimer (1845–1920), Czech-American writer, poet, school founder, and inventor

Politics

Louise Da-Cocodia (1934–2008), British anti-racism campaigner and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Manchester

Louise Ellman, British politician

Louise Feltham (1935–2020), Canadian politician

Louise Haigh, British politician

Louise Hardy (born 1959), Canadian politician

Bi-khim Louise Hsiao (born 1971), 13th Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), also known as Hsiao Bi-khim

Louise Louring (born 1992), Danish politician

Louise Marcos (born 1959), Filipina lawyer, first lady of the Philippines since 2022, wife of 17th Philippine President Bongbong Marcos

Louise Michel (1830-1905), French revolutionary, major figure of the Paris Commune.

Louise Moreau (1921–2001), French politician

Louise Mörk (born 1993), Swedish politician

Luise Neuhaus-Wartenberg (born 1980), German politician

Louise Thibault (born 1946), Canadian politician

Royalty and nobility

Princess Louise (disambiguation), various princesses

Lady Louise Windsor (born 2003), granddaughter of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and only daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh

Queen Louise (disambiguation), various queens

Louise de Brézé (1521–1577), French noble and spouse of Claude, Duke of Aumale

Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), countess and morganatic spouse of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine

Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722–1780), daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Louise d'Orléans (1869–1952), Princess Alfons of Bavaria

Louise of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1771–1856), countess and abbess of Drübeck Abbey

Louise de Mérode (1819–1868), Belgian noble and spouse of Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo della Cisterna

Archduchess Louise of Austria (1870–1947), daughter of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Sports

Louise Baxter (born 1983), Scottish field hockey defender

Louise Brough (1923–2014), American tennis player

Louise Carroll (born 1982), Scottish field hockey defender

Louise Christie (born 2000), Scottish rhythmic gymnast

Louise Cooper, former footballer

Luise Krüger (1915–2001), German athlete

Louise Lieberman (born 1977), American soccer coach and former player

Louise Miller (born 1960), English high jumper

Louise Petersen (1894–1983), Danish diver

Louise Sauvage (born 1973), Australian Paralympic athlete

Louise Vanhille (born 1998), French gymnast

Other people

Louise Arbour (born 1947), Canadian lawyer and jurist

Louise Archer (1893–1948), American teacher and activist

Louise Brown (born 1978), first human to be born after in vitro fertilisation, in the UK

Louise Charron (born 1951), Canadian lawyer

Louise L. Chase (1840–1906), American social reformer

Louise Cooper, British financial analyst

Louise Courteix Adanson (born 1950), French horticulturalist, businesswoman

Louise de Marillac (1591–1660), French co-founder of the Daughters of Charity and Roman Catholic saint

Louise Filion (born 1945), Canadian professor of biogeography

Luise Hartnack (1872–1942), German Holocaust victim

Luise Hercus (1926–2018), German-born Australian linguist

Louise Jensen (died 1994), Danish murder victim

Louise Jordan (1908–1966), American petroleum geologist

Louise Kessenich-Grafemus (1786–1852), Prussian officer

Louise M. Lawson (1855–1951), American temperance activist

Louise Macdonald, national director of the Institute of Directors in Scotland

Fictional characters

Lighthouse Louise, a female snail from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Lighthouse Louie". She used to be named Louie, but when she revealed that she has newborn baby snails, she became Louise.

Louise, a character in the manga and anime series Attack on Titan

Louise the Lady of Violets, wife of the sage Lord Pent and a character in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Louise Banks, Amy Adams's character in Arrival

Louise Belcher, one of the main characters in animated sitcom Bob's Burgers

Louise Brooks, one of the main characters in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Louise Darling, a friend of Ruby with brown fur in Max & Ruby

Louise Grimsley, long-running character in the crime/mystery serial The Edge of Night

Louise Halevy, supporting character from the Gundam 00 franchise

Louise "Weezie" Jefferson, neighbor of Archie Bunker in All in the Family and a main character in the spin-off The Jeffersons

Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, the female protagonist in the light novel, anime, and manga series Zero no Tsukaima

Louise Maigret (née Leonard), wife of Inspector Jules Maigret, a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon

Louise Mallard, main character from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin