Felix (name)
| Felix |
| Pronunciation |
/ˈfiːlɪks/ |
| Gender |
Male |
| Origin |
| Word/Name |
Latin |
| Meaning |
"lucky" or "successful" |
Felix is a male given name and surname, stems from Latin (felix, felicis) and means "lucky", "favored by luck", "successful" or "the lucky one". Its female form is Felicitas or Felizitas (in German speaking regions). In Italian form of the name is Felice.
Felix may refer to:
Romans
Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
Saints
- Felix and Adauctus (d. c. 303), martyrs
- Felix and Costanza (d. 68), martyrs
- Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (d c. 212), martyrs
- Felix and Nabor (d. c. 303), martyrs
- Felix and Regula (d. 286), martyrs
- Felix of Burgundy (fl. 7th century, introduced Christianity to the East Anglians)
- Felix of Como (d. c. 390)
- Felix of Cornwall (fl. 5/6th century)
- Felix of Nantes (d. 584), bishop of Nantes
- Felix of Nola (d. c. 255)
- Felix of Rhuys (d. 1038)
- Felix of Thibiuca, former bishop and patron saint of Venosa
- Felix of Valois (d. 1212)
- Felix the Hermit (fl. 9th century)
- Felix, martyred with Anesius
- Felix, one of the Martyrs of Córdoba with Aurelius and Natalia (d. 852)
- Felix, martyred at Furci with Justin of Siponto (d. c. 310)
Popes
Bishops and priests
Early modern period (1500–1799)
Modern times (1800–present)
Aliases
First names
- Felix Adler (clown) (d. 1960), a long-time head clown of Ringling Brothers Circus
- Felix Adler (screenwriter) (d. 1963), a film writer, known for writing many Three Stooges s scripts
- Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture) (d. 1933), a popular lecturer and founder of Ethical Culture
- Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (d. 1966), a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist
- Felix Batista, an American security expert
- Felix Bloch (d. 1983), a physicist and Nobel laureate
- Felix Bwalya (d. 1997), a boxer from Zambia
- Félix Caballero, a Dominican priest
- Felix Calonder (d. 1952), a Swiss politician
- Felix Cavaliere, an American music producer and musician
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (d. 1926), a Polish Communist, founder of Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka
- Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942), a German chemist and biochemist
- Félix Faure (d. 1899), a President of France from 1895 until 1899
- Félix Fénéon (d. 1944), French anarchist and art critic
- Felix Frankfurter (d. 1965), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Félix Omar Fernández, Puerto Rican track and field athlete
- Félix González-Torres (d. 1996), Cuban-American artist
- Félix Guattari (d. 1992), French psychotherapist and philosopher
- Felix Hausdorff (d. 1942), German mathematician, founder of modern topology
- Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball pitcher
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny (d. 1993), first President of Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa
- Félix José Hernández, Venezuelan football midfielder
- Felix Hoffmann (d. 1946), German chemist and inventor of Aspirin
- Felix Kasper (d. 2003), Austrian figure skater
- Felix Klein (d. 1925), German mathematician
- Felix Kroos, German football player
- Félix Leclerc (d. 1988), Québécois singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist
- Felix von Luckner (d. 1966), German nobleman and navy officer
- Félix Mantilla (baseball), former Major League Baseball player
- Félix Mantilla Botella, former Spanish professional tennis player
- Felix Mendelssohn (d. 1847), German composer
- Felix Montez, President of the Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans
- Felix Ortiz, Representative of New York's 51st Assembly District
- Felix Pipes, Austrian tennis player
- Félix Porteiro, Spanish racecar driver
- Félix Potvin, former ice hockey goaltender
- Felix Riebl, one of the founding members of The Cat Empire
- Félix Rodríguez (baseball), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Félix Rodríguez (Central Intelligence Agency), former CIA intelligence operative
- Felix Rodriguez (guitarist), guitar player in the Swedish band, The Sounds
- Felix Salmon, American financial journalist
- Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
- Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
- Félix Stevens, Cuban sprinter
- Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
- Félix Varela (d. 1853), Cuban churchman
- Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
- Felix Wankel (d. 1988), German inventor of the Wankel engine
- Felix Weingartner (d. 1942), Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
- Felix Yusupov (d. 1967), Russian noble famous for his part in the murder of Grigory Rasputin
- Archduke Felix of Austria, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
- León Félix Batista, Dominican poet
- Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1970), son of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma
- Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish prince
- Prince Félix of Luxembourg, son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Prince of Nassau
- Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (d. 1852), Austrian statesman and part of Europe's highest nobility
Fictional characters
- Felix the Cat, a cartoon character
- Felix Boulevardez, a character in the television series, The Proud Family
- Felix DeZouza, a character from the movie Formula 51
- Felix Gaeta, a character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
- Felix Gunn, a minor character in the book series Children of the Red King
- Felix Holt, the title character in George Eliot's novel Felix Holt, the Radical
- Felix Jaeger, a character in the Gotrek and Felix series of books
- Felix Krull, the protagonist of Thomas Mann's novel Confessions of Felix Krull
- Felix Leiter, a character from the James Bond books and movies
- Felix Lodd, a character in The Edge Chronicles
- Felix Renton, a secondary character in Disney's Kim Possible
- Felix Sanders, the protagonist of The Divide trilogy book series
- Felix Stewart, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Felix Unger, character in television series The Odd Couple
- Felix, a character from the Nintendo video game series Golden Sun
- Felix, a character in the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours
- Felix, a character 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
See also