Luis
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Luis, Luís (Portuguese and Galician), Lois (archaic Galician), Lluís (Catalan form), or Luiz (archaic use in Portugal, but common in Brazil) may refer to:

People

Royalty of Portugal
  • Luís I of Portugal
    Luís I of Portugal
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     (1838–1889), Portuguese king
  • Infante Luis (1340-1340), first son of King Pedro I of Portugal
  • Prince Luís, Duke of Beja (1506-1555)
  • Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal (1887-1908)

Sports
  • Luis Alberto González
    Luis Alberto González
    Luis Alberto González Gallego is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional from 1987 to 1996.-Career:1987198819891992...

    , Colombian cyclist
  • Luis Alberto Pérez
    Luis Alberto Pérez
    Luís Alberto Pérez is a lifelong resident of Managua, Nicaragua, where he was born. Luis is a southpaw professional boxer in the super bantamweight division. His record is 25-2 . He is a former IBF world super flyweight and bantamweight champion. His manager, also born & raised in Managua,...

    , Nicaraguan boxer
  • Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
    Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
    Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Sydney 2000. His personal best of 10.18 was set in 1997.-References:*...

    , Cuban runner
  • Luiz Antonio dos Santos
    Luíz Antônio dos Santos
    Luíz Antônio dos Santos is a retired long-distance runner from Brazil, who won the 1995 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:09:30 on December 3, 1995. Earlier that year he claimed the bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships...

    , Brazilian long-distance runner
  • Luis Aragonés
    Luis Aragonés
    José Luis Aragonés Suárez , usually referred to as Luis Aragonés and sometimes simply as Luis, is a former Spanish footballer and national coach....

    , Spanish soccer player and coach
  • Luiz Azeredo
    Luiz Azeredo
    Luiz Azeredo is a Brazilian Welterweight mixed martial artist, fighting out of the Chute Boxe Academy, Curitiba, Brazil. He has fought in the PRIDE and Cage Rage....

    , Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Caballero, Paraguayan football (soccer) player
  • Lluís Carreras, Spanish football player
  • Luis Antonio Castillo, Dominican baseball player
  • Luis Alberto Castillo, Dominican-American football player
  • Luis de Milán
    Luis de Milán
    Luis de Milán was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist , and writer on music...

    , Spanish composer
  • Luis Díaz
    Luis Diaz (volleyball)
    Luis Díaz is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...

    , Venezuelan volleyball player
  • Luis Dutra Jr.
    Luis Dutra Jr.
    Luis Dutra Jr. is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight and middleweight divisions. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Dutra has most notably fought in Shooto as well competing against Fabrício Camões and Paulo Thiago.-Shooto:Dutra turned...

    , Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Enrique Martínez García
    Luís Enrique Martínez García
    Luis Enrique Martínez García , known as Luis Enrique, is a retired Spanish footballer, and the current head coach of Serie A club A.S. Roma...

    , Spanish football (soccer) player
  • Luis Ernesto Guzmán, a Honduran footballer
  • Luis Ernesto José
    Luis Ernesto José
    Luis Ernesto José is a lightweight boxer from the Dominican Republic, who won a bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina...

    , Dominican boxer
  • Luis Ernesto Michel
    Luis Ernesto Michel
    Luis Ernesto Michel Vergara is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays in Guadalajara of Primera División de México as a goalkeeper. Michel stands at and weighs 75 kilos.-Club career:...

    , a football goalie
  • Luís Figo
    Luís Figo
    Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, OIH, is a Portuguese former international footballer. He played as a midfielder for Sporting CP, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Internazionale, during a career which spanned over a period of 20 years. He retired from football on 31 May 2009...

    , Portuguese football player
  • Luis Gonzalez, Cuban-American baseball player
  • Luis Rodríguez
    Luis Manuel Rodriguez
    Luis Manuel Rodríguez was a professional boxing champion. Known as "El Feo", Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.After the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez campaigned in the United States...

    , Cuban boxer
  • Luís Novo
    Luís Novo
    Luís Azevedo da Silva Novo is a male long-distance runner from Portugal, who won the 2001 edition of the Vienna Marathon, clocking 2:10.28. He ended up in fourth place in the men's marathon at the 1999 World Championships.He set het personal best time in 2002 at the Berlin Marathon, when he...

    , Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • Luis Onmura
    Luis Onmura
    Luis Onmura is a retired judoka from Brazil. He represented the Brazil at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Onmura claimed the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division , alongside Great Britain's Kerrith Brown.-External links:*...

    , Brazilian judoka
  • Luis Ortiz
    Luis Ortiz (boxer)
    Luis Ortiz Flores is a Puerto Rican former boxer who is a native of Humacao.-Amateur career:Ortiz had an award winning amateur career, which led him to represent Puerto Rico in the 1984 Los Angeles summer Olympics. Ortiz at first wasn't very well known in Puerto Rico...

    , Puerto Rican boxer
  • Luis Palomino
    Luis Palomino
    Luis Palomino is a Peruvian American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division, having formerly fought in the featherweight division...

    , Peruvian mixed martial arts fighter
  • Luis Pizarro
    Luis Pizarro
    Luis Pizarro is a retired boxer from Puerto Rico, who competed in the men's bantamweight and featherweight division during the late 1970s and early 1980s....

    , Puerto Rican boxer
  • Luis Orlando Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Luis Rodríguez
    Luis Rodríguez (volleyball)
    Luis Rodríguez is a volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan. In the same year the middle-blocker claimed the silver medal at the NORCECA Championship in Anaheim.-References:*...

    , Puerto Rican volleyball player Luis Rodríguez
  • Luis Salvadores Salvi
    Luis Salvadores Salvi
    Luis Salvadores was a Chilean basketball player who has competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. One of his brothers, Alvaro Salvadores, also played basketball.-Biography:...

    , Chilean basketball player
  • Luís Santos
    Luís Santos
    Luis Maurício Capelache dos Santos is a male water polo player from Brazil, who plays as a goalkeeper. He competed for his native country at the 2007 Pan American Games, where he claimed the silver medal with the Brazil men's national water polo team.-References:...

    , Brazilian water polo goalkeeper
  • Luis Soares
    Luis Soares
    Luis Soares is a former long-distance runner, who was born in Portugal. He represented France at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He set his personal best in the classic distance in 1992....

    , Portuguese-French long-distance runner
  • Luis Somoza Debayle
    Luis Somoza Debayle
    Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the President of Nicaragua from 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963, but was effectively dictator of the country from 1956 until his death. He was born in León.Luis was educated at LSU...

    , former president of Nicaragua
  • Luis Suárez
    Luis Suárez (Uruguayan footballer)
    Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz , commonly known as Luis Suárez and nicknamed "El Pistolero" , is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Liverpool and the Uruguayan national team...

    , Uruguayan footballer
  • Luis Terrero
    Luis Terrero
    Luis Enrique Terrero is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently playing for the Diablos Rojos del Mexico of the Mexican League. Terrero debuted with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003 and remained with the team until 2005. He has also played for the Baltimore Orioles in 2006 and the...

    , Dominican baseball player
  • Luis Tiant
    Luis Tiant
    Luis Clemente Tiant Vega , born November 23, 1940 in Marianao, Cuba, , is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians , Minnesota Twins , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates and California Angels...

    , Cuban-American baseball player
  • Luis Villar
    Luis Villar
    Luis Emilio Villar is a retired male basketball player from Argentina, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in ninth place in the overall-rankings. He was nicknamed "Mili" during his career.-References:*...

    , Argentine basketball player
  • Luis Villarroel
    Luis Villarroel
    Luis Alberto Villarroel Vera is a male diver from Venezuela, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native country. He claimed three medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.-References:...

    , Venezuelan diver
  • Luis Vizcaíno
    Luis Vizcaíno
    Luis Vizcaíno Arias is a Dominican Republic professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians in his career.-Career:Vizcaíno...

    , Dominican baseball player


Arts and entertainment
  • Luis Antonio Ramos
    Luis Antonio Ramos
    Luis Antonio Ramos is a Puerto Rican-born American actor who has been on and starred in various film and television shows such as Martin, Early Edition, New York Undercover, In The House, Friends, The Shield, CSI, and CSI: Miami.-See also:...

    , Puerto Rican actor
  • Luis Antonio Rivera
    Luis Antonio Rivera
    Luis Antonio Rivera a.k.a. "Yoyo Boing" is a comedian, actor and television show host, who was also one of the pioneers of Puerto Rican television.-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican television host
  • Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

    , Spanish film director
  • Lluís Claret
    Lluís Claret
    Lluís Claret is an Andorran cellist.He was born in Andorra in 1951 where he began his musical education at the age of 9. In 1964 he moved to Barcelona, won major distinctions at the Conservatory of the Liceu, and began working with Enric Casals. Claret continued his studies in France, Italy and in...

    , Andorran cellist
  • Luiz Ejlli
    Luiz Ejlli
    Luiz Ejlli is an Albanian singer.-Biography:Luiz Ejlli was born in Shkodra and between 1991 and 2002 he attended the "Prenk Jakova" secondary school in Shkodra. In 1995, he won the Best Voice Prize in "Child National Fesitival" in Shkodra. In 1998, he participated as a soloist in the "Gold...

    , Albanian singer
  • Luis Enrique
    Luis Enrique (singer)
    Luis Enrique Mejía López, is a Nicaraguan singer and composer. He started his career in the late 1980s and achieved success in the 1990s earning the title "El Principe de la Salsa . He was one of the leading pioneers that led to the salsa romantica movement in the 1980s...

    , Nicaraguan singer
  • Luis Fernando Vager
    Little Louie Vega
    Luis Fernando Vager , better known as "Little" Louie Vega, is an American musician and one half of the Masters At Work musical production team...

    , Puerto Rican musician and producer
  • Luis Fonsi
    Luis Fonsi
    Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...

    , Puerto Rican singer
  • Luis Gatica
    Luis Gatica
    -Biography:Luis Gatica was born in Veracruz. He grew in a show business family. He is the son of Chilean singer Lucho Gatica and Puerto Rican actress Mapita Cortés; he is the nephew of Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortés and second cousin of Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer Paquito Cordero...

    , Mexican-Chilean-Puerto Rican actor and singer
  • Luiz Gonzaga
    Luiz Gonzaga
    Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco , he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country...

    , Brazilian singer
  • Luis Guzmán
    Luis Guzmán
    Luis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....

    , a Puerto Rican actor
  • Luis Roberto Guzmán
    Luis Roberto Guzmán
    Luis Roberto Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor known for his performances in Mexican telenovelas like Alborada, and for his title role in Mexican series El Pantera...

    , a Puerto Rican actor
  • Lluís Llach
    Lluís Llach
    Lluís Llach i Grande is a Catalan composer and songwriter.Though partially dependent on arrangers, like Manel Camp or Carles Cases in his early works, Llach's songwriting has largely evolved from the more basic early compositions to a vastly more complex harmonic and melodic writing...

    , Catalan composer
  • Luis Miguel
    Luis Miguel
    Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...

    , Mexican singer
  • Luis Oquendo
    Luis Oquendo
    Luis Oquendo was a well-known Cuban actor.Mr. Oquendo was well known for his acting on radio before going into television and film...

    , Cuban actor
  • Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Puerto Rican musician
  • Luis Segura
    Luis Segura
    Luis Segura , is a Dominican singer known as 'The Father of Bachata'. He is considered one the best at his art with hits like "Pena por ti", "Dicen", and "No me celes tanto". He is also known for the use of double entendre in his songs, like "El Salon" .- References :...

    , Dominican singer
  • Luis Vargas
    Luis Vargas (musician)
    Luis Vargas is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. When he began in the early 1990s, Antony Santos, considered by some to be one of the most influential bachata musicians of all time, was his güira player....

    , Dominican singer
  • Luis Vigoreaux Lorenzana
    Luisito Vigoreaux
    Luis Vigoreaux Lorenzana is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He is the son of Luis Vigoreaux, a legendary Puerto Rican media personality and Rosaura Lorenzana Vilches...

    , Puerto Rican television host
  • Luis Vigoreaux Rivera
    Luis Vigoreaux
    Luis Vigoreaux Rivera was a Puerto Rican radio and television show host, announcer, comedian and producer. The son of a sugar worker, Vigoreaux became one of the most popular television entertainers in Puerto Rico's history....

    , Puerto Rican television host


Politicians
  • Luis Alberto de Herrera
    Luis Alberto de Herrera
    Luis Alberto de Herrera was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician.-Political and diplomatic roles:A National leader of great importance during the first half of the 20th century; he led the National Party through the most decisive instances along five decades...

    , Uruguayan politician
  • Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo
    Luis A. Ferré
    Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico...

    , former Governor of Puerto Rico (1969-1973)
  • Luis Alberto Lacalle
    Luis Alberto Lacalle
    Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who served as President of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995.-Background:His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, was the daughter of the Blanco political leader Luis Alberto de Herrera, after whom Lacalle was named. Luis...

    , former president of Uruguay
  • Luis Ángel González Macchi
    Luis Ángel González Macchi
    Luis Ángel González Macchi was the President of Paraguay from 1999 until 2003.As the president of Paraguay's legislature, González Macchi succeeded to the office of president on March 29, 1999 following the assassination six days earlier of the Vice President, Luis María Argaña, and the subsequent...

    , former president of Paraguay
  • Lluís Companys i Jover, Catalan politician
  • Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres
    Luis Batlle Berres
    Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres was a Uruguayan political figure.-Background:Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party...

    , former president of Uruguay
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...

    , President of Brazil
  • Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro
    Luis María Argaña
    Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro was a prominent politician in Paraguay and influential member of the Colorado Party until his assassination in 1999....

    , Paraguayan politician
  • Luis R. Esteves
    Luis R. Esteves
    Major General Luis R. Esteves was the first Hispanic to graduate from the United States Military Academy , on June 19, 1915, and the founder of the Puerto Rico National Guard.-Early years:...

    , Major General, Puerto Rican-American military leader
  • Luis Fortuño
    Luis Fortuño
    Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is the governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America. Fortuño is also the president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico , a member of the Republican National Committee, and will be president of the Council of State...

    , Governor of Puerto Rico (2009-present)
  • Luis Gutiérrez
    Luis Gutiérrez
    Luis Vicente Gutiérrez is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. Gutiérrez was the first Latino to be elected to Congress from the Midwest. From 1986 until his election to Congress he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward...

    , Puerto Rican-American political leader
  • Luis Muñoz Marín
    Luis Muñoz Marín
    Don José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician. Regarded as the "father of modern Puerto Rico," he was the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Muñoz Marín was the son of Luis Muñoz Rivera, a renowned autonomist leader...

    , first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico
  • Luis Muñoz Rivera
    Luis Muñoz Rivera
    Luis Muñoz Rivera was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician. He was a major figure in the struggle for political autonomy of Puerto Rico....

    , Puerto Rican politician and father of Luis Muñoz Marín

Writer
  • Luis Llorens Torres
    Luis Lloréns Torres
    Luis Llorens Torres , was a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and politician. He was an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico.-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican playwright and poet
  • Luis López Nieves
    Luis López Nieves
    Luis López Nieves is one of the most influential and best-selling Puerto Rican authors ever. He has won the National Literature Prize on two occasions: first, in 2000, with his book of historical short stories ; second, in 2005, with his novel . He published two other books including Seva, and ...

    , Puerto Rican writer
  • Luis Palés Matos
    Luis Palés Matos
    Luis Palés Matos was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano.-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican author


Other
  • Luis F. Alvarez
    Luis F. Alvarez
    Luis Fernández Álvarez was a Spanish American physician and researcher who practiced in both California and Hawaii.Fernández was actually his principal surname...

    , Spanish-American physician (grandfather of Luis W. Alvarez)
  • Luis W. Álvarez, Spanish-American physcist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     in Physics
  • Luis Aponte Martínez
    Luis Aponte Martínez
    Luis Aponte Martínez is the only Puerto Rican ever to be consecrated a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and for 34 years was the Archbishop of San Juan. Cardinal Aponte was a cardinal elector in the two conclaves of 1978....

    , Puerto Rican religious leader
  • Luis E. Arreaga
    Luis E. Arreaga
    Luis Arreaga is the United States Ambassador to Iceland. He was nominated by President Barack Obama, and assumed his duties at post in September 2010....

    , Guatemalan-American diplomat
  • Luis Carrillo
    Luis Carrillo
    Luis Carrillo was, from November 1567 to about July 1568, royal commissioner with Alonso Muñoz for the inspection of the viceregal government of New Spain for King Philip II.-The Conspiracy of 1565:...

    , Spanish colonial administrator
  • Luis de Moscoso Alvarado
    Luis de Moscoso Alvarado
    Luis de Moscoso Alvarado was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.- Expeditions with Pedro de Alvarado :Luis de Moscoso Alvarado was born in Badajoz, Spain in 1505...

    , Spanish explorer and conquistador
  • Lluís Domènech i Montaner
    Lluís Domènech i Montaner
    Lluís Domènech i Montaner was a Spanish Catalan architect who was highly influential on Modernisme català, the Catalan Art Nouveau / Jugendstil movement. He was also a Catalan politician....

    , Catalan architect
  • Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste, Spanish nobleman
  • Luis Jacob
    Luis Jacob
    -Life and work:Jacob was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Canada with his family when he was ten. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996....

    , Peruvian-Canadian visual artists and photographer
  • Luis Muñoz de Guzmán
    Luis Muñoz de Guzmán
    Luis Muñoz de Guzmán was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Quito and Royal Governor of Chile.-Sources:...

    , a Spanish colonial administrator
  • Luis González Vale
    Luis González Vale
    Dr. Luis González Vale is the latest in a long line of historians who have held the post of Official Historian of Puerto Rico, having succeeded Dr. Pilar Barbosa in the post....

    , Puerto Rican historian
  • Luis Guinot, Puerto Rican-American diplomat
  • Luiz Gushiken
    Luiz Gushiken
    Luiz Gushiken is a Brazilian activist and politician. He was formerly the head of the social communication office of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration, a position which carried a ministerial rank....

    , Brazilian communications minister
  • Luis Lliboutry, French-Chilean glaciologist
  • Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald
    Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald
    Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions, portrayed from 1999 to 2008 by original cast member Galen Gering. Debuting in the series' premiere episode, Luis is introduced as an honest, hard-working Irish-Mexican police officer who bitterly blames the...

    , fictional character on NBC's daytime drama Passions
  • Luis Marden
    Luis Marden
    Luis Marden was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic Magazine. He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the National Geographic foreign editorial staff...

    , American photographer
  • Luis Miranda Casañas
    Luis Miranda Casañas
    Luis Miranda Casañas, a native of Arecibo, Puerto Rico's Barrio Santana, is the Chairman of the Board of Universal, the largest insurance group in Puerto Rico, which also has a corporate presence on the United States mainland...

    , Puerto Rican businessman
  • Luis Née
    Luis Née
    Luis Née was a Franco-Spanish botanist, who accompanied the Malaspina expedition to the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America and Australia.He described many new plants, including the Coast Live Oak, which he discovered in California....

    , explorer, botanist, discovered Coast Live Oak in California
  • Luis Padial
    Luis Padial
    Brigadier General Luis Padial , was a soldier, politician and one of the most important figures who was responsible for the abolishment of slavery in Puerto Rico.-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican military leader
  • Luis Posada Carriles
    Luis Posada Carriles
    Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-communist and former Central Intelligence Agency agent....

    , Cuban militant
  • Luis Rafael Sánchez
    Luis Rafael Sanchez
    Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez a.k.a. "Wico" is a Puerto Rican playwright. Possibly his best known play is La Pasión según Antigona Pérez , a tragedy based on the life of Olga Viscal Garriga-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican playwright
  • Luis Sera, a character in Resident Evil 4

Things named Luis

  • Luis
    Luis (letter)
    Luis is the second letter of the Ogham alphabet, derived either from luise "flame" or from lus "herb". Its Proto-Indo-European root was either * 'to shine' or * 'to grow'. Its phonetic value is [l]....

    , the second letter of the Ogham alphabet
  • Luis
    Luis (TV series)
    Luis is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September to October 2003. Scheduled in the Friday night death slot, the series received low ratings and was canceled after five episodes. The series was the first show of the 2003-2004 season to be canceled.-Season One:...

    , short-lived television sitcom starring Luis Guzmán
  • Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, main airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Hurricane Luis
    Hurricane Luis
    Hurricane Luis was one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph . The storm was the twelfth tropical storm, sixth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season...

    , hurricane
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