Lodewijk

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Lodewijk () is the Dutch name for Louis. In specific it may refer to:

Given name

Literature

• Lodewijk Hartog van Banda (1916–2006), Dutch comic strip writer
• Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, (1912–1979) Flemish writer
• Lodewijk van Deyssel, (1864–1952) late 19th century Dutch literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers
• Lodewijk Elzevir (1540s–1617), 16th century printer and publisher of books and bibles
• Lodewijk de Koninck (1838–1924), Flemish writer

Music

• Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, (1955–2020) American guitarist
• Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (better known as Lou Bandy), Dutch singer and cabaret conferencier
• Lodewijk Fluttert (born 1991) Dutch DJ and producer
• Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952), Belgian classical composer
• Lodewijk Parisius (1911–1963), Dutch/Surinamese tenor saxophonist

Sports

• Jan-Lodewijk de Vries, (born 1972) Dutch water polo player
• Lodewijk De Clerck (1936–2018), Belgian sprinter
• Lodewijk de Kruif (born 1969), Dutch football coach and former professional player
• Lodewijk Jacobs (born 1951), Dutch sprint canoer
• Lodewijk Prins, (1913–1959) Dutch chess grandmaster
• Lodewijk Roembiak (born 1969), retired Dutch footballer

Other fields

• Lodewijk Asscher (born 1974), Dutch politician
• Lodewijk Bruckman (1903–1995), Dutch magic realist painter
• Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715–1785), 16th century Dutch classical scholar
• Lodewijk De Raet (1870–1914), Flemish politician
• Lodewijk de Vadder (1605–1655), Flemish Baroque landscape painter, draughtsman, engraver, and tapestry designer
• Lodewijk De Witte (born 1954), governor of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant
• Lodewijk Freidrich Paulus (born 1957), Indonesian politician
• Lodewijk Gerard Brocx (1819–1880), Dutch politician
• Lodewijk Heyligen (1304–1361), Flemish Benedictine monk and music theorist
• Lodewijk Makeblijde (1565–1630), Flemish Jesuit and a Renaissance poet and hymn writer
• Lodewijk Meyer (1629–1681), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, and playwright
• Lodewijk Napoleon, Dutch form of Louis I Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland
• Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf van Heyden (in Russian known as Login Geiden), Dutch admiral
• Lodewijk Thomson (1869–1914), Dutch military commander and politician
• Lodewijk Toeput (1550–1605), Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy
• Lodewijk van Bylandt (1718–1793), Dutch lieutenant-admiral
• Lodewijk van den Berg (1932–2022), Dutch-American chemical engineer
• Lodewijk van Gruuthuse (1427–1492), Flemish knight and nobleman
• Lodewijk van Schoor (1645–1702), Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries
• Lodewijk van Velthem, a Flemish poet and priest
• Lodewijk Woltjer (1930–2019), astronomer, and the son of the astronomer Jan Woltjer

Surname

• Martin Lodewijk (born 1939), Dutch comics writer and cartoonist

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