Famous People with Name Luise

Luise Neumann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Neumann: German actress, the daughter of actress Amalie Haizinger. Her younger sister, Adolfine Neumann, was also an esteemed actress of the period.

Luise Rainer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Rainer: in Duesseldorf / Germany, is a two-time Academy Award-winning German film actress. Of living people who have won Academy Awards, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars. She is also the oldest of Academy Award winners at 98.

Luise Kähler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Kähler: was a German socialist, trade union leader and politician. Kähler joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands--SPD), Germany's oldest socialist party (founded in 1875), in 1902 and increasingly became more political active and astute. In November 1906 she became the cofounder and first chairwoman of an embryonic union for women working in domestic trades in Hamburg representing her members against exploitation by private employers.

Luise Meyer-Schützmeister            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Meyer-Schützmeister: was a senior physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory and she aided in the measurement of gamma rays produced in nuclear reactions and also conducted studies on the behavior of nuclei. She received her Ph.D at the Technical University of Berlin during WW2 and in the 1950s she and her husband Peter Meyer, also a physicist, emigrated to the United States where she became a research associate for the Institute for Nuclear studies at the University of Chicago, in 1956 she became an associate scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory and in 1973 became a senior scientist there until her death in 1981.

Luise Adolpha Le Beau            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Luise Adolpha Le Beau: was a German composer of classical music.

Maurice Luiset            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Maurice Luiset: was a French financier and entrepreneur who created several mainstream consumer-good products such as MIR, the world's oldest existing, and continental Europe's first detergent, the perfume Porte-Bonheur and a hygiene and beauty product La Mondiale. Maurice Luiset also owned one of the largest candle manufacturing businesses in France, a bee-keeping products business that sold under the brand name La Colombe and merchant ships that he used for import and export activities. He based his business operations out of Vienne, near Lyon, France.