| Louis le Grange | |
| Order: | Cabinet Minister of South Africa |
| Term Start: | 1978 |
| Term End: | 1986 |
| President: | Marais Viljoen |
| Office2: | Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Africa |
| Term Start2: | 1987 |
| Term End2: | 1991 |
| President2: | F.W. de Klerk |
| Birth Date: | 1928 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ladybrand, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa |
| Death Place: | Potchefstroom, Orange Free State (province), South Africa |
| Citizenship: | South African citizenship |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Party: | National Party |
| Alma Mater: | Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education |
Louis le Grange (16 August 1928 - 25 October 1991) was a lawyer, a South African politician and a member of the National Party.
Le Grange was born to Elizabeth Raats and Johannes Jacobus Le Grange in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State of South Africa.[1] He attended primary school in Fochville and Potchefstroom and matriculated Potchefstroom Hoer Volkskool in 1946.[1] After matriculating, he joined the Department of Interior and Justice in 1947 as clerk while studying for a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Africa, obtaining it in 1953.[1] He left to become an attorney in partnership, obtaining his Attorneys' Admission Diploma in 1955 and an LL.B. in 1956.[1] He received a BA Honours in Political Science in 1964 from the University of Potchefstroom.[1]
He came from a politically active family, his mother a secretary of the National Party's Kimberley branch in 1915, while his father had stood as an independent in Losberg in 1938.[1] He was a member of the National Party, Member of Parliament for the constituency of Potchefstroom (1966-1991), Deputy Minister of Information (1975-1978), Interior (1975-1978), Immigration (1978), and Public Works (1978), in governments of John Vorster.[1]
He then served as Minister of Tourism and Public Works (1978-1979), Prisons (1979-1980), Police (1979-1982) and Law and Order (1982-1986) in the cabinets of P.W. Botha,[1] before he became the 13th Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Africa (1987-1991).
He married Jessie Ortlepp-Marais in May 1952, and had two sons and two daughters.[1]
He died of a heart attack in Potchefstroom, aged 63.