Louis Otten

{{short description|Dutch footballer}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's Football}}

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Louis "Lou" Otten (November 5, 1883 in Rijswijk – November 7, 1946 in The Hague) was a Dutch football (soccer) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26677 |title=Louis Otten |work=Olympedia |access-date=27 March 2021}}

He was also a doctor and scientist credited as the inventor of the bubonic vaccine during his tenure at Pasteur Institute in Bandung, Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia).{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Lou Otten |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26677 |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=www.olympedia.org}}{{Cite journal |date=2018-11-16 |title="Field rat - plague research in the district Malang." |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285200 |language=en}}

Otten was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1934.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002181 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419204853/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00002181 |title=Louis Otten (1883 - 1946) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=19 April 2019}}