Luisa (
Italian and
Spanish), Luísa (
Portuguese), or
Louise (
French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name
Louis
Louis may refer to:
People
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
Other uses
* Louis (coin), a French coin
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
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(
Luis), the French form of the Frankish
Chlodowig (German
Ludwig), from the
Germanic elements ''hlod'' "fame" and ''wig'' "combat".
Variations include Luisinha,
Luisella, Luisana,
Luisetta,
Luigia,
Luiza and Luisel.
Its popularity derives from the cult of
Saint Louise de Marillac of
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
, and from
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...
's opera ''
Luisa Miller''.
People with the given name
Luisa
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Luisa Accati (born 1942), Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual
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Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (1799–1866), heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence
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Luisa Baldini, Anglo-Italian news reporter and presenter, presently working for BBC News
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Luisa Bradshaw-White (born 1975), English actress
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Luisa María Calderón (born 1965), Mexican politician
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Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), Corsican-Puerto Rican writer and anarchist
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Luisa Casati (1881–1957), Italian artists' model
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Luisa Castro (born 1966), Spanish poet and writer
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Luísa Diogo (born 1958), Mozambican politician, Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to December 2010
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Luisa DiPietro, faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
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Luisa Durán (born 1941), former First Lady of Chile, the wife of Chile Ricardo Lagos
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Luisa "Loi" Ejercito Estrada (born 1930), Filipino politician
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Luisa Ferida (1914–1945), Italian stage and motion picture actress
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Luisa Görlich (born 1998), German ski jumper
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Luisa Lambertini (born 1963), Italian economist specializing in monetary and fiscal policies
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Luisa Martín
María Luisa Martín López (born in Madrid on 23 February 1960) is a Spanish actress.
Professional career
Martín still preserves a photograph that her father José Luis took of her when she was four years old, in which he wrote: "Mi cómic ...
(born 1960), Spanish actress
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Luisa of Medina-Sidonia (1613–1666), Queen of Portugal
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Luisa Menárguez, Spanish harpist and educator
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Luisa Micheletti (born 1983), presenter on MTV Brazil
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Luisa Moreno (1907–1992), Guatemalan-American communist and writer
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Luisa Morgantini (born 1940), Italian politician, Member of the European Parliament
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Luisa Eugenia Navas, Chilean pharmacist and botanist
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Luisa Ottolini (born 1954), Italian physicist
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Luisa Ranieri (born 1973), Italian actress
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Luisa Rivelli (1931–2013), Italian film actress
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Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era
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Luisa Rossi (1925–1984), Italian actress
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Luisa Sala (1923–1986), Spanish actress
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Luisa Teresa Pacheco (died 2023), Venezuelan politician
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Luisa Tetrazzini (1871–1940), Italian coloratura soprano
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Luisa Torsi (born 1964), Italian chemist
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Luisa Värk (born 1987), Estonian singer
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Luisa Wilson (born 2005), Mexican-Canadian ice hockey player
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Luisa Zissman (born 1987), British television personality
*
Luisa Stefani (born 1997) Brazilian professional tennis player
Luisel
*
Luisel Ramos (1984-2006), Uruguayan model
Luisana
*
Luisana Lopilato (born 1987), Argentine actress and model
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Luisana Melo, Venezuelan politician
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Luisana Pérez (journalist), Venezuelan-American communications expert and political advisor
*
Luisana Pérez (table tennis), Venezuelan table tennis player
Fictional characters with the name
*
Luisa Alver, a fictional character played by
Yara Martinez in the series ''
Jane the Virgin''
*Luisa Anselmi, a fictional character played by
Anouk Aimée in the 1962 film ''
8½
''8½'' ( ) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde arthouse comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi ( Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer ...
''
*Luisa Contini, a fictional character played by
Marion Cotillard in the 2009 film ''
Nine
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit
Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bot ...
''
*Luisa "Adelita" Espina, a fictional character played by
Carla Baratta in the series ''
Mayans MC''
*Luisa Madrigal, a fictional character played by Jessica Darrow in the 2021 Disney film ''
Encanto''
Other uses
* ''
Luisa Miller'' is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi
*
Luisa World, a Greek fashion company
* Luisa was
Giovanni da Verrazzano's name for
Block Island
Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately south of mainland Rhode Island and east of Long Island's Montauk Point. The island is coterminous with the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Isl ...
*
Luisa Piccarreta also known as "Little Daughter of the Divine Will" is a proposed Roman Catholic saint
* "Luísa" is a song composed by Tom Jobim
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered as one of the great exponents of Brazilian ...
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