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Felix is a masculine given name that stems from Latin felix
[ˈfeːliːks] (genitive felicis
[feːˈliːkɪs] ) and means "happy" or "lucky". Its feminine form is
Felicia or
Felicity .
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In German, Dutch, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian and the Scandinavian languages, the form "Felix" is the same as English. In French, Hungarian, Slovak, Portuguese and Spanish, it is written with an
acute accent , "Félix”. The Italian form of the name is "
Felice ", and its Polish and Serbian form is "
Feliks ".
Next is a list of notable people with the given name "Felix" below.
Romans
Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
Saints
"Saint Felix" may refer to:
Felix of Heraclea , martyred with Januarius
Felix and Constantia (d. 68), martyrs
Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (d. c. 212), martyrs
Felix of Nola (d. c. 255)
Felix and Regula (d. 286), martyrs
Felix of Thibiuca (d. 303), bishop of Thibiuca, and patron of Venosa, martyred with Audactus, Fortunatus, Januarius, and Septimus
Felix and Adauctus (d. c. 303), martyrs
Felix and Nabor (d. c. 303), martyrs
Felix of Girona (d. 304), martyr
Felix of Como (d. c. 390)
Felix of Nîmes (4th century)
Felix (d. c. 310), martyred at Furci with
Justin of Siponto
Felix of Hadrumetum (d. c. 434) North African Catholic bishop
Felix of Cornwall (5th or 6th century)
Felix of Nantes (died 584), bishop of Nantes
Felix of Burgundy (7th century), who introduced Christianity to the East Anglians
Felix (d. 852), one of the Martyrs of Córdoba with
Aurelius and Natalia
Felix the Hermit (9th century)
Felix of Rhuys (d. 1038)
Felix of Valois (d. 1212)
Felix, martyred with
Anesius
Popes
Bishops and priests
Early modern period (1500–1799)
Modern times (1800–present)
Aliases
Given name
Felix Adler (screenwriter) (1884–1963), American screenwriter
Felix Adler (professor) (1851–1933), German-American lecturer and founder of the
Ethical movement
Felix Agnus (1839–1925), American military officer and newspaper editor
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966), Dutch geophysicist and geodesist
Felix Anudike-Uzomah (born 2002), American football player
Felix Arndt (1889–1918), American pianist and popular-music composer
Félix Auger-Aliassime , Canadian tennis player
Félix Bañobre (born 1970), Spanish-English basketball coach and former player
Felix Batista , Cuban-American anti-kidnapping expert
Felix Baumgartner , Austrian skydiver who set the world record for the highest skydive at 127,000 feet (39 km)
Felix Behrend (1911–1962), German and Australian mathematician
Felix Bloch (1905–1983), Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate
Felix Browder (1927–2016), American mathematician
Felix Brych , German football referee
Felix Bwalya (1970–1997), Zambian boxer
Félix Caballero , Dominican priest
Felix Calonder (1863–1952), Swiss politician
Felix Cavaliere , American musician and singer-songwriter
Félix Chopin (1813–1892), French bronze designer
Felix Chung (born 1963), Hong Kong politician
Felix Dexter (1961–2013), British comedian
Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1930-1985), Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike I (1861-1947), Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) judge and lawyer
Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike II (1891-1951), Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) judge and lawyer
Felix Maria Diogg (1762–1834), Swiss painter
Felix Dodds , British author, futurist and artist
Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and official
Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942), German chemist and biochemist
Felix Eypeltauer (born 1992), Austrian politician
Félix Faure (1841–1899), President of France from 1895 until 1899
Félix Fénéon (1861–1944), French anarchist and art critic
Félix Fermín , Dominican former professional baseball shortstop
Félix Omar Fernández , Puerto Rican track and field athlete
Felix Francis , British crime writer and son of Dick Francis
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Austrian-American jurist
Felix Gelt , Canadian association football player
Felix N. Gerson (1862–1945), American newspaper editor
Félix González-Torres (1957–1996), Cuban-American artist
Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter
Felix Hamrin (1875–1937), Swedish politician
Felix Hanemann , American singer and musician
Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), German mathematician
Félix Hernández , Venezuelan baseball pitcher
Félix José Hernández , Venezuelan football midfielder
Felix Hoffmann (1868–1946), German chemist and inventor of Aspirin
Felix Hoffmann (basketball) , German basketball player
Felix Holtmann , Canadian politician
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905–1993), first president of Ivory Coast
Felix Jaehn , German DJ and music producer
Felix Jones , American football player
Felix Jones (rugby union) , Irish rugby union player
Felix Kaspar (1915–2003), Austrian figure skater
Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician
Felix Kjellberg , Swedish YouTube personality and video gamer, better known as PewDiePie
Felix Kroos , German football player
Felix LaBauve (1809–1879), French-born American early settler and community leader in Mississippi
Felix Landau (1910–1983), Austrian
SS
Hauptscharführer , member of an
Einsatzkommando during
World War II
Felix Latzke , Austrian football former player and manager
Félix Leclerc (1914–1988), Québécois singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist
Félix Lengyel , Canadian Twitch streamer
Felix A. Levy , American rabbi
Felix von Luckner (1881–1966), German nobleman and navy officer
Felix Luk (born 1994), Hong Kong professional footballer
Felix Magath , German football manager and former player
Félix Malloum (1932–2009), Chadian military officer and politician
Felix Manalo (1886–1963), Filipino founder and first leader of religious movement Iglesia ni Cristo
Félix Mantilla (baseball) , Puerto Rican former professional baseball utility player
Félix Mantilla Botella , Spanish professional tennis player
Félix Mathé (1834–1911), French politician
Felix J. McCool (1912–1972), American Marine held as prisoner of war in both World War II and Korean War
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), German composer
Felix Michel Melki (born 1994), Swedish-Lebanese footballer
Félix Miélli Venerando (1927–2012), Brazilian football player
Felix Morley (1894–1982), American journalist and college administrator
Felix Neureuther , German alpine skier
Felix A. Obuah , Nigerian business magnate, politician and philanthropist
Félix W. Ortiz , American politician
Félix Oukiné (born 1999), Cameroonian footballer
Felix Övermann (born 1985), German rower
Felix Pappalardi (1939–1983), American musician and producer
Felix Perera , Sri Lankan politician
Felix Pipes (1887–1983), Austrian tennis player
Félix Podmaniczky (1914–1990), Hungarian film director
Félix Porteiro , Spanish racecar driver
Félix Potvin , Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Felix Reda , German researcher and politician
Felix Riebl , Australian singer-songwriter
Félix Rodríguez (baseball) , Dominican former Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Félix Rodríguez (soldier) , Cuban-American soldier and CIA intelligence operative
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente , (1928–1980) Spanish naturalist and broadcaster
Felix Rosenqvist , Swedish professional racing driver
Felix Salmon , British financial journalist
Felix Sater (born 1966), Russian-American mobster
Felix Schütz , German ice hockey player
Felix Siauw (born 1984), Chinese-Indonesian Islamic
ustad , preacher, author and
da'i
Felix Silla , Italian actor
Felix Standaert , Belgian diplomat
Felix Steiner , German Waffen-SS commander, most notable for the participation in the Battle of Berlin
Félix Stevens , Cuban sprinter
Félix Torres (baseball) , Puerto Rican baseball player
Félix Trinidad , Puerto Rican boxer
Felix Unger , Austrian heart surgeon
Félix Varela (1788–1853), Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader
Felix Wankel (1902–1988), German mechanical engineer and inventor of the Wankel engine
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
Felix D. Williamson (1921–1947), American pilot and United States Army Air Forces major
Felix Yusupov (1887–1967), Russian aristocrat, famous for participating in the assassination of Grigory Rasputin
Archduke Felix of Austria , Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
Count Felix of Monpezat , member of the Danish royal family
José Félix Uriburu , Argentinian Lieutenant
Felix Zenger (born 1986), Finnish beatboxer
León Félix Batista , Dominican poet
Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893–1970), son of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma
Prince Félix of Luxembourg , son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Prince of Nassau
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800–1852), Austrian statesman and part of Europe's highest nobility
Surname
Fictional characters
Felix the Cat , a cartoon character
Felix, in the 2009 American comedy film
The Hangover
Felix, in the video game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Felix Faust , a
DC Comics villain sorcerer
Felix, from the video game series
SSX
Felix, a member of the
Volturi Guard in the Twilight series
Felix, an Iberian lynx in the animated film
Missing Lynx
Felix, the protagonist of the novel
Armor by John Steakley
Felix, the title character from a series of Micro Power video games such as
Felix in the Factory
Felix, a 'lost boy' from the television show
Once Upon a Time (TV series)
Felix, a holo-programmer in
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Felix, also known as Experiment 010, an alien experiment from Disney's
Lilo & Stitch franchise
Felix, the main protagonist in
Golden Sun: The Lost Age and supporting antagonist in
Golden Sun , both of the
Golden Sun video game series
Felix Argyle, from the anime/light novel series
Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
Felix Bassenak, "Uncle Felix", character played by S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in the 1945 film
Christmas in Connecticut
Felix Boulevardez, in the television series
The Proud Family and
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Felix Dawkins, a primary character portrayed by Jordan Gavaris in the BBC America/Space TV series
Orphan Black
Felix DeZouza, from the movie
Formula 51
Felix Ferne, from the Australian television show
Nowhere Boys
Felix Fischoeder, in the television series
Bob's Burgers
Felix Hugo Fraldarius , a playable character in the video game
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Felix Gaeta , in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
Felix Gunn, a minor character in the book series
Children of the Red King
Felix Harrowgate, the protagonist of the
Doctrine of Labyrinths series of books
Felix Holt, the title character in George Eliot's novel
Felix Holt, the Radical
Felix Jaeger , in the Gotrek and Felix series of books
Felix Koffka, a character in Mark Millar's graphic novel Prodigy: The Icarus Society
Felix Krull, the protagonist of Thomas Mann's novel
Confessions of Felix Krull
Felix de Lacey, minor character in Mary Shelley's novel
Frankenstein
Felix Leiter , from the
James Bond books and movies
Felix Lodd, in
The Edge Chronicles
Felix Philips, a minor character in the
Kane Chronicles (book series)
Felix Phillips, primary character in
Margaret Atwood's novel
Hag-Seed
Felix Renton, in Disney's
Kim Possible
Felix Richter, from
Dead by Daylight
Felix Sanders, the protagonist of
The Divide trilogy book series
Felix Stewart, in the BBC soap opera
EastEnders
Felix Taggaro , recurring character in the television series
One Tree Hill '
Félix Tholomyes, minor character in
Les Misérables and father of Cosette
Felix Ungar , in the stage play, movie adaptation and television series
The Odd Couple
Félix Fathom,
Adrien Agreste 's cousin from the French animated television series
Miraculous Ladybug
Fix-It Felix Jr. , from Disney's
Wreck-It Ralph
Félix, from Disney’s
Encanto
See also
References