List of Famous people named Ludwig

Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, also Ludovicus van Beethoven, born Lodewijk van Beethoven was a professional singer and music director, best known as the grandfather of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at Armour Institute of Technology, in Chicago, Illinois.

Ludwig I or Louis I was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.

Ludwig Hartmann is a German politician and communication designer. He is, along with Katharina Schulze, one of the two leading candidates of his party in the 2018 Bavarian state election.

Ludwig August Theodor Beck was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. Ludwig Beck never became a member of the Nazi Party, though in the early 1930s he supported Adolf Hitler's forceful denunciation of the Versailles Treaty and his belief in the need for Germany to rearm. Beck had grave misgivings regarding the Nazi demand that all German officers swear an oath of fealty to the person of Hitler in 1934, though he believed that Germany needed strong government and that Hitler could successfully provide this so long as the Führer was influenced by traditional elements within the military rather than by the SA and SS.

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877 he provided the current definition of entropy, , interpreted as a measure of statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant k_B the Boltzmann constant.

Ludwig Thoma was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life.

Ludwig Roselius was a German coffee merchant and founder of the company Kaffee HAG. He was born in Bremen and is credited with the development of commercial decaffeination of coffee. As a patron, he supported artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker and Bernard Hoetger and turned the Böttcherstrasse street in Bremen into an artwork.

Ludwig Anders Ahgren is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and esports commentator and competitor. Ahgren is best known for his livestreams on Twitch, where he broadcasts video game-related content as well as non-video game-related content such as game shows, contests, and gambling. He is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments. Since beginning streaming full-time on February 16, 2019, Ahgren has become one of the largest streamers on Twitch.