title: Lodewijk
text: # Lodewijk
  
  Lodewijk (pronounced) 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
  