Louis Hennepin
（重定向自Hennepin, Louis）
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![Painting by Douglas Volk, of Father Louis Hennepin discovering Saint Anthony Falls.](/Images/godic/202501/17/Father_Hennepin_at_the_Falls_of_St._Anthony0002.jpg")
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![1698 – Antoine Hennepin's colorized map of North America.](/Images/godic/202501/17/1698_Louis_Hennepin_Map_of_North_America_-_Geographicus_-_NorthAmerica-hennepin-16980003.jpg")
Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (12 May 1626 – c. 1705) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of the interior of North America.