Minnie Dessau Louis (June 21, 1841 – March 12, 1922) was an American educator, writer, and community leader, one of the founders of the National Council of Jewish Women.

She was raised in Columbus, Georgia, but attended Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, as a young woman.

She served as a district inspector for New York public schools, as director of the Clare de Hirsch Home for Girls, and as field secretary for the Jewish Chautauqua Society.

[4] As a writer, Louis edited the Personal Services department of the American Hebrew from 1901 to 1903.

She published a book-length poem, Hannah and her Seven Sons: An Incident of the Persecution of the Jews by the Syrian monarch Antiochus Epiphanes, 167 B.C.