Today is International Louie Louie Day. Louie is a familiar form of the name Louis, which is an old French name meaning "Famous warrior". Here are 10 (or more) famous people who have the name:
- Louis Armstrong: American jazz musician also known as Satchmo.
- Louis Daguerre: French artist and photographer famous for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography, he is one of the fathers of photography. He was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theatre.
- Louis Theroux: British television broadcaster. He's the son of the American writer Paul Theroux, and is the host of BBC documentaries, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.
- Louis Tomlinson: English pop singer. He auditioned for X Factor and was eliminated as a solo act, but found fame when the producers decided to put him together with four other failed solo contestants as the boy band One Direction.
- Louis Vuitton: French fashion designer who, after being appointed trunk maker to the wife of Napoleon III, formed a leather goods company. Today he's best known for handbags and suitcases. He also designed the world's first pick-proof lock.
- Louis Walsh: Irish entertainment manager. He managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone and Westlife, three of Ireland's most successful pop acts in the 1990s and 2000s, and has been a judge on X Factor.
- Louis is a common name for royalty, especially in France. There were 19 kings there called Louis, arguably the most famous being Louis XVI, who was married to Marie Antoinette. The final one, Louis XIX, was King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 before he abdicated. The German form of the name is Ludwig, a common name for royalty there, too. Less so in the UK, but not unknown. Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, was last Viceroy of India and first Governor-General of independent India. He was assassinated by the IRA while on a fishing trip off the coast of Ireland in 1979. Today, we have Prince Louis of Cambridge, third child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. He was born in 2018 and is the great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Louis BlĂ©riot: French aviator and inventor, famous for being the first person to fly across the English Channel, netting himself the £1,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail.
- Louis Braille: Blinded at the age of three by an accident with a stitching awl in his father's shop, he developed the tactile reading and writing system of Braille.
- Louis Pasteur: French microbiologist and chemist, discoverer of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
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