La Touche

Latouche, La Touche, or de la Touche is a surname or place name of French origin, related to multiple places called Touche, and common in Ireland.

Places

• La Touche, Drôme, commune in Drôme, France
• Livré-la-Touche, commune in Mayenne, France
• Latouche Island, Gulf of Alaska, United States

People with the surname

• Christian Latouche (born 1939/1940), French billionaire businessman
• Claude Guimond de La Touche (1723–1760), French playwright and poet
• David La Touche (1729–1817), MP for Newcastle (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• David La Touche (1768–1816), MP for Newcastle (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• Gaston La Touche (1854–1913), French post-impressionist painter
• Henri de Latouche (1785–1851), French writer
• Jacques-Ignace de La Touche, French painter of miniatures and portraits
• James La Touche (1844–1921), Irish civil servant
• John La Touche (disambiguation)
• Maria La Touche (1824–1906), Irish writer
• Méhée de La Touche (1762–1826), French spy
• Peter La Touche (c. 1775–1830), Irish politician
• Robert La Touche (1773–1844), MP for Harristown
• Rose La Touche (1848–1875), inspiration of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies
• Serge Latouche (born 1940), French economist

Middle or double surname

• Anthony La Touche Kirwan (fl. 1839–1868), Irish Anglican priest
• Arthur William La Touche Bisset (1892-1956), British naval officer
• Edmund la Touche Armstrong (1864–1946), Australian historian and librarian
• Jeremiah La Touche Cuyler (1768–1839), United States federal judge
• David la Touche Colthurst (1828–1907), Irish politician
• William La Touche Congreve (1891–1916), English soldier
• Valentine la Touche McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee (1871–1953), Irish-born UK politician
• Martin La Touche Wemyss (1927–2022), British Royal Navy officer

Species

• Hylarana latouchii, frog species also known La Touche's frog
• La Touche's free-tailed bat
• La Touche's mole
• Latouchea, monotypic genus of flowering plants
• Latouchella, an extinct genus of marine invertebrate animal
• Latoucheornis or Slaty Bunting, a species of bird
• Opisthotropis latouchii, species of snake found in China

See also

• Latouche-Tréville (disambiguation)
• Touche (surname)