Louise Gunning (April 1, 1878 – July 24, 1960) was an American soprano popular on Broadway in Edwardian musical comedy and comic opera from the late 1890s to the eve of the First World War.

Her mother, Mary Gunning, was a choir director who, besides her daughter, also trained the silent film actress Lucille Lee Stewart.

[2] Gunning made her first stage appearances as a chorus singer in a Frank Daniels show and later as a solo act singing Scottish ballads.

By the fall of 1903 Gunning was touring with Frank Daniel's company playing Euphemia in The Office Boy by Engländer and Smith,[9] and the following year she appeared at the Broadway Theatre as Laura Skeffington in the Stang and Edwards musical comedy, Love's Lottery.

Gunning was Pepi Gloeckner in The White Hen by Gustave Kerker and Roderic C. Penfield in February 1906 at the Casino Theatre, and later that year starred in vaudeville with the Shubert organization in the light opera Véronique.

She joined the stock company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in May 1914, to guest star as Mary in Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway.