List of Famous people named Ludvig

Here are some famous Ludvigs:

Ludvig Lorenz

First Name Ludvig
Born on January 18, 1829
Died on June 9, 1891 (aged 62)

Ludvig Valentin Lorenz was a Danish physicist and mathematician. He developed mathematical formulae to describe phenomena such as the relation between the refraction of light and the density of a pure transparent substance, and the relation between a metal's electrical and thermal conductivity and temperature.

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Ludvig Strigeus

First Name Ludvig
Born on January 15, 1981 (age 43)

Ludvig "Ludde" Strigeus is a Swedish programmer, best known for developing software such as the BitTorrent client μTorrent, OpenTTD, and Spotify.

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Ludvig Faddeev

First Name Ludvig
Born on March 23, 1934
Died on February 26, 2017 (aged 82)
Born in Russia

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.

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Ludvig Holberg

First Name Ludvig
Died on January 28, 1754
Born in Norway, Vestland

Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque. Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. He is best known for the comedies he wrote in 1722–1723 for the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen. Holberg's works about natural and common law were widely read by many Danish law students over two hundred years, from 1736 to 1936.

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Ludvig Nobel

First Name Ludvig
Born on July 27, 1831
Died on April 12, 1888 (aged 56)

Ludvig Immanuel Nobel was a Swedish-Russian engineer, a noted businessman and a humanitarian. One of the most prominent members of the Nobel family, he was the son of Immanuel Nobel and Andriette Nobel, and the older brother of Alfred Nobel. With his brother Robert, he operated Branobel, an oil company in Baku, Azerbaijan which at one point produced 50% of the world's oil. He is credited with creating the Russian oil industry. Ludvig Nobel built the largest fortune of any of the Nobel brothers and was one of the world's richest men. Following the Bolshevik revolution, the communists confiscated the Nobel family's vast fortune in Russia.

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Ludvig Munk

First Name Ludvig
Born on November 30, 1536
Died on April 8, 1602 (aged 65)

Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk was born in 1537 in Vejle, and died 8 April 1602 at Nørlund Slot in Funen. He was a Danish official and Count. He was the son of Ludvik Munk (1500-1537), and is also referred to as Ludvig Ludvigsen Munk von Schleswig-Holstein and Ludvig Munk til Nørlund.

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Ludvig Karsten

First Name Ludvig
Born on May 8, 1876
Died on October 19, 1926 (aged 50)
Born in Norway

Ludvig Karsten was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901, and had his first separate exhibition in 1904. He is represented at museums in many Scandinavian cities, including several paintings at the National Gallery of Norway. Karsten was known for his bohemian lifestyle and quick temper.

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Ludvig Fischer

First Name Ludvig
Born on January 31, 1828
Died on May 21, 1907 (aged 79)

Emanuel Friedrich Ludwig Fischer was a Swiss botanist. He conducted research on both phanerogams and cryptogams, native to the canton of Bern. He was the father of mycologist Eduard Fischer.

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Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

First Name Ludvig
Born on June 10, 1839
Died on March 1, 1912 (aged 72)

Johan Ludvig Carl Christian Tido Holstein, was a Danish politician who was Minister of State of Denmark. He was Council President of Denmark for two months, from 16 August to 28 October 1909. He also served as Defence Minister of Denmark from 18 October to 28 October 1909.

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Ludvig Puusepp

First Name Ludvig
Born on December 3, 1875
Died on October 19, 1942 (aged 66)
Born in Ukraine

Ludvig Puusepp, was an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery.

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