Famous People with Name Louise

Louise Levêque De Vilmorin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louise Levêque De Vilmorin: was a French woman of letters: novelist, poet, journalist.Born in the family chateau at Verrières-le-Buisson, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was the scion of a great French seed company fortune and afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieus. Her most famous novel was "Madame de", published in 1951, which was made into the celebrated film Madame_de... (1953), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux and directed by Max Ophüls. Vilmorin's other works included "Juliette," "La lettre dans un taxi," "Les belles amours," "Saintes-Une fois," and "Intimités."

Louise Weber            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louise Weber: was a French can-can dancer who performed under the stage name of La Goulue ("the glutton").[1] She also was referred to as the Queen of Montmartre.

Louise Ayétotché            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louise Ayétotché: is a Côte d'Ivoire sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.

Louise Michel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louise Michel: was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She often used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre. She was brought up by her father's parents, and received a liberal education. After her grandfather's death in 1850 she was trained to teach, but her refusal to acknowledge Napoleon III prevented her from serving in a state school. She became violently anti-Bonapartist, and is said to have contemplated the assassination of Napoleon III. She found her way in 1866 to a school in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, where she threw herself ardently into works of charity and revolutionary politics.

Louise-Angélique Bertin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louise-Angélique Bertin: was a French composer and poet. Bertin was a member of a family that thrived on the arts. Her father, Louis-François Bertin, and also her brother later on, were the editors of Journal des débats, an influential newspaper. As encouraged by her family, Bertin pursued music. She received lessons from François-Joseph Fétis, who directed a private family performance of Guy Mannering, the first opera that Bertin ever composed, in 1825. This opera, while never formally produced, did keep with the trend of the time by borrowing its story line from the book of the same name, written by Sir Walter Scott

Anneliese Louise            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Anneliese Louise: is a Dutch -born American actress and singer

Tina Louise            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tina Louise: is an American model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role as "movie star" Ginger Grant on the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island.She was born in New York City, an only child, and attended the Miami University of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio. She began her career as a model and nightclub singer while she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her acting debut came in 1952 in the Bette Davis musical revue Two's Company, followed by roles in other Broadway productions, such as John Murray Anderson's Almanac, The Fifth Season, and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. She also appeared in such early live TV dramas as Studio One, Producers Showcase, and Appointment with Adventure.

Charlotte Louise            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charlotte Louise: was an African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator.Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mary Woods and Robert Bridges Forten, members of the prominent black Forten-Purvis families of Philadelphia. Robert Forten and his brother-i

Adelaide Louise            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Adelaide Louise: was a daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Princess Adelaide was born on 19 October 1889 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the fourth eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.