Admiral of the Fleet, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

He was the last Viceroy of the British Indian Empire (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (1947 - 48), from which the modern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenburg, some forty years earlier. He died in 1979.