Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt in modern history.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous Scottish poet, novelist and travel writer.
Red Cloud was a war chief who led the Oglala Sioux tribe in what was known as Red Cloud’s War against the United States Army.
Maya Angelou was a famous writer, activist, singer, and actor, known best for her autobiography, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’.
Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts.
Louise Minchin is a famous British journalist and news reporter.
Louise Brooks was an American actress and dancer who popularized the bobbed haircut.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, widely appreciated for her timeless classic novel ‘Little Women’.
Louis Walsh is an Irish music manager, who grew to fame as a judge on UK’s popular show ‘X Factor’.
Louis The Pious was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor of Holy Roman Empire with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
Louis Sullivan was a pioneering architect who is known as the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was a renowned American composer.
Louis Leakey was a Kenyan-British anthropologist who findings greatly altered conceptions about the origins and course of the evolution of human life.
Louis Kahn was one of the most reputed architects of the 20th century.
Louis Farrakhan is an active leader of the African-American religious movement, Nation of Islam.
Louis Chevrolet was a Swiss-American car racer who designed the first Chevrolet automobile and also founded the ‘Frontenac Motor Corporation’.
Louis C.K. is an American comedian and an eminent filmmaker and television star.
Louis Brandeis was an American lawyer and Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court.
Louis Bonaparte was the brother of Napoleon I and the king of Holland.
Louis Armstrong was a renowned Jazz singer and trumpeter.
Louis Anquetin was a contemporary of Vincent von Gough and a celebrated painter in his own right.
Lou Reed was the lead singer and songwriter of the ‘Velvet Underground’.
Lou Gehrig was a charismatic American baseball player after whom the ‘Gehrig’s disease’, which took his life, was named.
Lou Ferrigno is an American actor and a retired champion bodybuilder.
Joe Louis was a famous American boxing champion.
Jacques-Louis David was an eminent French painter belonging to the Neo-classical school.
Emmylou Harris is a multiple award winning American singer and songwriter.
David McCullough was known as the ‘master of the art of narrative history’, is an American author, narrator, historian and lecturer.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a renowned French mathematician. He proved the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner.
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