Felix
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Felix (Latin for "happy, gay*, prosperous") is a given name and the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional.
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[edit] People
[edit] Saints
- Felix and Adauctus
- Felix and Regula
- Felix of Burgundy
- Felix of Cantalica
- Felix of Cornwall
- Felix of Girona
- Felix of Nola
- Felix of Valois
[edit] Popes
- Pope Felix I (269–274)
- Pope Felix II (356-365)
- Pope Felix III (483–492)
- Pope Felix IV (526-530)
[edit] Bishops and Priests
- Felix of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium
- Félix Caballero - Priest
- Félix Varela - Priest
- Felix, bishop of Zaragoza (Spain) in ca. 256 AD.
- Felix, Bishop of Urgel
[edit] Romans
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix - Roman dictator
- Antonius Felix, procurator of Judaea
- Felix was part of many Roman emperors' titles as a cognomen since Commodus had chosen this name as part of his title.
[edit] Moderns
- Felix Arauz - Ecuadorian painter
- Felix Dexter - comedian
- Allyson Felix - African American athlete
- Sylviane Felix - French athlete
- Felix Bloch - physicist
- Charles Reis Felix - writer
- John Felix - comedian and musician
- Felix Frankfurter - judge
- Felix James - biologist
- Felix Jankowski - idler
- Felix Klein - mathematician
- Félix Leclerc - singer-songwriter
- Felix Meissner - physicist and mathematician
- Felix Mendelssohn - classical composer.
- Felix Pollock - Guitarist and singer of Sikanna
- Felix Potvin - NHL Goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Félix Poussineau- French couturier of the Belle Epoque era
- Felix Riebl - lead singer of The Cat Empire
- Félix Trinidad - Champion boxer
- Félix Miéli Venerando - Brazilian footballer
- Felix Wankel - engineer
- Felix de Weldon - American sculptor born in Austria
- Felix was the pseudonym of Nicholas Wanostrocht, 19th century English cricketer
- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, which gradually evolved into the KGB.
- Felix Griffith - The USA's first professional male cheerleader, cheered for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1973-75
[edit] Fictional Felix
- Felix the Cat - cartoon character
- Felix Unger - character in television series, The Odd Couple
- Felix Leiter - character from the James Bond books and movies
- Felix - character from the Nintendo video game series Golden Sun.
- Felix Felicis - a potion that makes people lucky in Harry Potter.
- Felix Jaeger- a character in the Gotrek and Felix series of books.
- Felix Gaeta- a secondary character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
[edit] Places
- St. Felix, Prince Edward Island.
- Felix, Spain is a municipality (pop. 566) in the Spanish province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia
- Felix Arba, Rab - honorary roman title of island Rab in Croatia.
- Saint-Félix is the name or part of the name of several places
- Băile Felix, a thermal spa resort in Western Transylvania, Romania.
- Felixstowe, city in England.
- Felixdorf, a town in Austria.
[edit] Other
- "Felix" cat food, sold in most European countries.
- The Felix Awards are a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc.
- Operation Felix, a German project to conquer Gibraltar.
- Felix (newspaper) is the weekly newspaper of Imperial College, London
- The Felix programming language.
- St. Felix's Flood in the Netherlands, in 1530.
- The Free Electron Laser (FEL) for Infrared eXperiments "FELIX", located at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics in Nieuwegein, Netherlands.
- Felix B. Maduro is one of the biggest department stores in Panama.
Gay is being used a happy and joyous, not homosexaul