List of Famous people named Ludwig

Ludwig Güttler is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. His name is sometimes written in English as Ludwig Guttler.

Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim, better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together with Clemens Brentano and Joseph von Eichendorff, a leading figure of German Romanticism.

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician and sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action.

Ludwig Blochberger is a German actor. He is best known for the gay movie Summer Storm and appearing on Germany TV drama programmes including, The Old Fox, Tatort, and Kommissar Dupin. He also was Helmut Schmidt, in the TV documentary drama Helmut Schmidt - Lebensfragen.

Ludwig Preis was a German football coach who once managed SpVgg Greuther Fürth on an interim basis after Mike Büskens was sacked. From 11 March 2013 till end of season he was assistant of manager Frank Kramer. 2013/14 he managed SpVgg U23 team but left after the end of season.

Ludwig Quidde was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck ; the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888–1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and, finally, Nazi Germany. In 1927, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, known as Ludwig Leichhardt, was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.

Ludwig Pfyffer was a Swiss military leader, spokesman for Roman Catholic interests in the cantons, chief magistrate of Lucerne, and probably the most important Swiss political figure in the latter half of the 16th century.

Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German Heldentenor and the creator of the role of Tristan in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde. His career was curtailed by a serious illness which killed him at the age of 29, after only four performances in the role of Tristan.