# Louisa

Louisa may refer to:

## Places
### Australia

* Louisa Island (Tasmania)

### Canada

* Louisa or Lac-Louisa, a community in Wentworth, Quebec

### Malaysia

* Louisa Reef, Sabah

### United States

* Louisa, Kentucky
* Louisa, Missouri
* Louisa, Virginia
* Louisa County, Iowa
* Louisa County, Virginia

### Belgium

* Louisa - Square in Brussels and metro station, next to Palace de Justice, see Avenue Louise

## Other

* HMS Louisa, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
* Louisa (ship), United States ship of the 1800s
* Louisa (film), 1950 film starring Ronald Reagan

## People with the given name

* Louisa of Great Britain (1749–1768)
* Louisa, Countess of Craven, originally Louisa Brunton (1785?–1860), English actress
* Louisa Adams (1775–1852), First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
* Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist, short story writer and poet
* Louisa Rose Allen, English singer and songwriter known as Foxes
* Louisa Beaufort (1781–1863), Irish antiquarian, author and artist
* Louisa Dow Benton (1831–1895), American linguist and letter writer
* Louisa Bertman, Jewish American illustrator, animator, visual narrative artist specializing in social and political advocacy
* Louisa Briggs (1818 or 1836- 1925), Aboriginal Australian rights activist, dormitory matron, midwife and nurse
* Louisa Burns (c.1869–1958), American osteopathic physician
* Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
* Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (1832–1918)
* Louisa Chafee (born 1991), American competitive sailor
* Louisa Clein (born 1979), English actress
* Lady Louisa Conolly (1743–1821), Irish noblewoman
* Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), Columnist and first editor of the Ladies Home Journal
* Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917), French writer
* Louisa Lane Drew (1820–1897), English-born American actress
* Louisa Durrell (1886–1964)
* Louisa Frederici (1844–1921)
* Louisa Morton Greene, American social reformer
* Louisa Gould, Jewish activist
* Louisa Jane Hall (1802–1892), American poet, essayist, literary critic
* Louisa Harland, Irish actress
* Louisa Horton (1920–2008), American film, television, and stage actress
* Louisa Jacobson (born 1991), American actress
* Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (died 2018), Danish female murder victim
* Louisa Johnson, English singer
* Louisa Krause (born 1986), American film, stage, and television actress
* Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist
* Louisa Lytton (born 1989), English actress
* Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (1810–1879), American writer
* Louisa Moritz (1936–2019), Cuban-American actress and lawyer
* Louisa Starr (1845–25 May 1909), British painter
* Louisa Maria Stuart (1692–1712), Princess Royal
* Louisa Swain (1801–1880)
* Louisa Thomas (born 1981), American writer and sports journalist
* Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (1799–1879), American children's book author
* Louisa Wisseling, former member of Australian folk-influenced pop quartet The Seekers
* Louisa Young, British writer

### Fictional characters

* Louisa Clarke, main character in Me Before You and its film adaptation
* Louisa Musgrove, character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion
* Louisa, the pen name of the eighteenth century English writer Elizabeth Boyd (1710–1745)
* Louisa, a character in the American-Canadian animated series Work It Out Wombats!
* Louisa Loops, a character in the American-Canadian animated series Lyla in the Loop
* Louisa von Trapp, third daughter in the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music