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Luisa
Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (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, Luisel.
Its popularity derives from the cult of Saint Louise de Marillac of Paris, and from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Luisa Miller.
People with the given name
Luisa
- Luisa Accati (born 1942), Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual
- Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (1799–1866), heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence
- Luisa Baldini, Anglo-Italian news reporter and presenter, presently working for BBC News
- Luisa Bradshaw-White (born 1975), English actress
- Luisa María Calderón (born 1965), Mexican politician
- Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), Corsican-Puerto Rican writer and anarchist
- Luisa Casati (1881–1957), Italian artists' model
- Luisa Castro (born 1966), Spanish poet and writer
- Luísa Diogo (born 1958), Mozambican politician, Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to December 2010
- Luisa DiPietro, faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
- Luisa Durán (born 1941), former First Lady of Chile, the wife of Chile Ricardo Lagos
- Luisa "Loi" Ejercito Estrada (born 1930), Filipino politician
- Luisa Ferida (1914–1945), Italian stage and motion picture actress
- Luisa Görlich (born 1998), German ski jumper
- Luisa Lambertini (born 1963), Italian economist specializing in monetary and fiscal policies
- Luisa Martín (born 1960), Spanish actress
- Luisa of Medina-Sidonia (1613–1666), Queen of Portugal
- Luisa Menárguez, Spanish harpist and educator
- Luisa Micheletti (born 1983), presenter on MTV Brazil
- Luisa Moreno (1907–1992), Guatemalan-American communist and writer
- Luisa Morgantini (born 1940), Italian politician, Member of the European Parliament
- Luisa Eugenia Navas, Chilean pharmacist and botanist
- Luisa Ottolini (born 1954), Italian physicist
- Luisa Ranieri (born 1973), Italian actress
- Luisa Rivelli (1931–2013), Italian film actress
- Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era
- Luisa Rossi (1925–1984), Italian actress
- Luisa Sala (1923–1986), Spanish actress
- Luisa Teresa Pacheco (died 2023), Venezuelan politician
- Luisa Tetrazzini (1871–1940), Italian coloratura soprano
- Luisa Torsi (born 1964), Italian chemist
- Luisa Värk (born 1987), Estonian singer
- Luisa Wilson (born 2005), Mexican-Canadian ice hockey player
- Luisa Zissman (born 1987), British television personality
- Luisa Stefani (born 1997) Brazilian professional tennis player
Luisel
Luisana
Fictional characters with the name
Other uses
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