Gene Louw

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| name = Eugene Louw

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| office = Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Africa

| president = FW de Klerk

| term_start = 1991

| term_end = 1994

| predecessor = Louis le Grange

| successor = Frene Ginwala

| office2 = Minister of Defence

| term_start2 = May 1992

| term_end2 = 30 March 1993

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| successor2 = Kobie Coetsee

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| office3 = Minister of Public Works

| term_start3 = 1992

| term_end3 = 1993

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| predecessor3 = Leon Wessels

| successor3 = Louis Shill

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| office4 = Minister of Home Affairs

| term_start4 = 1989

| term_end4 = 1992

| predecessor4 = Stoffel Botha

| successor4 = Louis Pienaar

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| office5 = Minister of Education

| term_start5 = 1989

| term_end5 = 1990

| predecessor5 = Gerrit Viljoen

| successor5 = Louis Pienaar

| birth_name = Eugene Louw

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|07|15}}

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| nationality = South African

| party = National Party (South Africa)

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Eugene "Gene" Louw, (15 July 1931 – 12 October 2015),{{cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-sunday-edition/20151018/281883002184329|publisher=Weekend Argus|date=18 October 2015|title=Gene Louw served in FW de Klerk's Cabinet}} was a South African politician, member of the National Party, MP for Durbanville and Paarl, who was administrator for Cape Province (1979–1989), Minister of Home Affairs{{cite book|last=Goldstein|first=Robert Justin|title=Political censorship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0TmIfyCwDAC&pg=PA496|accessdate=26 June 2011|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57958-320-0|pages=496–}} (1989–1992), National Education (1989–1990), Public Works (1992–1993) and Defence (1992–1993) in the F.W. de Klerk government.

Louw retired from political life in 1994 to return to his work as a lawyer in Durbanville.