Loudon (name)
# Loudon (name)

Loudon is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

* Alex Loudon (born 1980), English cricketer
* Chris Loudon (born 1985), Scottish darts player
* Dave Loudon (born 1954), Scottish cricketer
* Dorothy Loudon (1933–2003), Broadway actress
* Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, often written as Loudon (1717–1790), Austrian general
* Harald von Loudon (1876–1959), Baltic-German ornithologist
* Irvine Loudon (1924–2015), British doctor, medical historian and artist
* James Loudon (1841–1916), Canadian professor of physics
* James Loudon (politician) (1824–1900), Dutch politician, governor of Dutch East Indies
* Jane Loudon (née Webb, 1807–1858), English novelist and horticulturist
* Johann Ludwig Alexius von Loudon (1767–1822), Austrian general
* John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), Scottish botanist
* John Loudon (minister) (1866–1955), Dutch politician and statesman
* John Hugo Loudon (1905–1996), Dutch CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, and president of the WWF
* John William Loudon (born 1967), Missouri state senator
* Peter Loudon (born 1966), Scottish curler
* Thomas Loudon (1883–1968), Canadian rower
* Trevor Loudon, New Zealand political activist
* William James Loudon (1860–1951), Canadian geologist and photographer

Given name:

* Loudon Wainwright, Jr. (1924–1988), American writer
* Loudon Wainwright III (born 1946), American musician
* William Loudon Mollison (1851–1929), Scottish mathematician and academic
