Luise
Luise , Louise , Luisa or Louisa is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
- the feminine form of the French name Louis , derived from the old German Ludwig ( hlut = famous, wig = war = "famous warrior"), so Ludowika
- from the old high German Aloisia , very wise
- from the Celtic, likewise the wise
variants
- Lisi (short form)
- Louiza (Arabic)
- Luisa (Spanish or Italian)
- Louise, Louisa (French)
- Luize, Loisa
- Luiza (Polish, Sorbian)
- Luise (German)
- Lovisa (Swedish)
- Heloise
- Luísa (Portuguese)
- Ludovica (Latin)
- Lu (short form)
- Lulu (short form)
- Lou (short form)
- Ise (short form)
- Lujza (Slovak)
- Lujza (Hungarian)
name day
March 15 , May 11 , July 24 , October 17 , November 10 , December 18
Name bearers
Luise
- Luise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1622–1709), Princess of the Palatinate, titular Countess Palatine near the Rhine, painter and engraver, abbess of the Maubuisson monastery
- Luise von Anhalt-Dessau (1631–1680), Duchess of Liegnitz, Brieg, Wohlau and Ohlau
- Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg (1799–1882), by marriage Princess of Prussia
- Luise von Anhalt-Dessau (1709–1732), daughter of Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau
- Luise Henriette Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt (1761–1829), wife of Ludwig I of Hessen-Darmstadt , after whom Luisenplatz in Darmstadt was named
- Luise Ulrike von Prussia (1720–1782), Prussian princess and queen of Sweden
- Luise von 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 Elisabeth Alexejewna
- Luise von Baden (1811–1854) , Princess of Baden
- Luise Egloff (1804–1835), Swiss poet
- Luise Gruber (* 1984), Austrian singer
- Luise Harkort , (1866–1966), German ceramicist
- Luise Kinseher (* 1969), German cabaret artist and actress
- Luise Kraushaar (1905–1989), German resistance fighter and historian
- Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776–1810), Queen Luise of Prussia
- Luise Henriette of Orange (1627–1667), Princess of Orange - married to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg
- Luise of Austria-Tuscany (1870–1947), Crown Princess of Saxony, wife of Friedrich August III.
- Luise Marie Elisabeth of Prussia (1838–1923), daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- Luise of Savoy (1476–1531), Duchess of Angoulême
- Luise of Savoy (Blessed) (1462–1503), French noblewoman and nun in the Order of the Poor Clares
- Luise F. Pusch (* 1944), German linguist
- Luise Rainer (1910–2014), German-American actress
- Luise Rinser (1911–2002), German writer
- Viktoria Luise of Prussia (1892–1980), daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Louise
- Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria
- Louise von Marillac (1591–1660), founder of the order and saint
- Louise of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1724–1751), Queen of Denmark
- Louise Sophie Arnold (* 2001), German actress
- Louise Beck (1822–1879), Bavarian mystic
- Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French-American sculptor
- Louise Brooks (1906–1985), American film actress, leading actress in GW Pabst films
- Louise of Hesse (1817–1898), Queen of Denmark
- Louise of Mecklenburg (1667–1721), Queen of Denmark
- Louise Mushikiwabo (* 1961), Rwandan politician
- Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), American sculptor
- Louise Redknapp (* 1974), English singer
- Louise of Sweden-Norway (1851–1926), Queen of Denmark
- Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (* 1958), American singer, actress, dancer and author
- Code name of the French agent Violette Szabo (1921–1945)
Luisa
→ For the namesake see the definition of terms Luisa
Fictional characters
- Luise from Kabale und Liebe (1784), civil tragedy by Friedrich Schiller
- Luise - a German Muslim woman, film (2007) by Beatrix Schwehm
- Luise (1798), epic by Johann Heinrich Voss
- Luise Koschinsky , comedy figure by Hans-Werner Olm
- Luise from The Silent Serenade (1954), opera / operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Luise von Briest from Effi Briest (1894), novel by Theodor Fontane
- Louise in "Liza and Louise" by NOFX
- Louise in " Thelma & Louise " (road movie)
- Louise , leading actress in " Louise (Take 2) " (French drama, 1998)
- Luise Palfy in “ Das doppelte Lottchen ” by Erich Kästner
- Luise Pogge in “ Pünktchen und Anton ” by Erich Kästner
animal
- Wild boar Luise (1984–1998), the world's first wild boar to be used by the police to detect drugs and explosives
Other spellings
- Louise , Lujza, Louisa, Luisa, Luiza, Loisa
additional
- Galerie Luise , shopping mall in Hanover
- Good Luise , pear variety
- Luisenwahl , Königsberg city park in the district of Hufen
- Luisendenkmal (Königsberg)
- Luise (Schiff, 1872) , a corvette of the Imperial Navy
- Luise (ship, 1906) , a freighter, museum ship in Göhren
- Luisenpark
- Luisenstrasse (Wuppertal)
- Luisenfriedhof , three cemeteries in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg
- DeLuise