Felix
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| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | "lucky" or "successful" |
| Origin | Latin |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Felix |
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Felix (Latin for "happy" or "lucky") is a male given name and the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional. The surname Felix is observed among the English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
[edit] People
[edit] Saints
- Felix and Adauctus
- Felix and Nabor
- Felix and Regula
- Felix of Burgundy
- Felix of Cantalica
- Felix of Como
- Felix of Cornwall
- Felix of Nicosia
- Felix of Nola
- Felix of Rhuys
- Felix of Thibiuca (247-303), bishop and martyr, former patron saint of Venosa
- Felix of Valois
- Felix, martyred with Anesius
- Felix, one of the Martyrs of Córdoba with Aurelius and Natalia
- Felix, martyred at Furci (see Justin of Siponto)
[edit] Popes
- Pope Felix I (269–274)
- Antipope Felix II (356-365)
- Pope Felix III (483–492)
- Pope Felix IV (526-530)
- Antipope Felix V, earlier Amadeus VIII of Savoy (1439-1449)
[edit] Bishops and Priests
- Felix of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium
- Félix Caballero, a Priest
- Felix, Bishop of Urgell
[edit] Romans
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, a Roman dictator
- Antonius Felix, procurator of Judaea
- Flavius Felix, a Roman consul
- A part of many Roman emperors' titles as a cognomen since Commodus had chosen "Felix" as part of his title
[edit] Other men with the name Felix
- Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
- Felix Bwalya, Boxer
- Felix Standaert
- Felix Calonder
- Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
- Felix Adler, founder of Ethical Culture Fieldston School
- Felix Vasquez
- Felix Dzerzhinsky, Soviet statesman
- Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Austrian statesman and part of Europe's highest nobility
- Prince Félix of Luxembourg
- Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish prince
- Felix Yusupov, Russian noble famous for his part in the murder of Grigory Rasputin
- The pseudonym of Nicholas Wanostrocht, 19th century English cricketer
- Felix Mendelssohn, German composer
- Felix Klein, German mathematician
- Félix Hernández, Venezuelan Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
- Felix von Luckner, German nobleman and navy officer
- Felix Hoffmann, German chemist and inventor of Aspirin
- Felix Wankel, German inventor of the Wankel engine
- Felix Guattari, French psychotherapist and philosopher
- Felix Magath, German soccer manager
- Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
- Felix Potvin, former ice hockey goaltender
- Felix Da Housecat, a House music DJ and record producer
- Felix Ortiz, Representative of New York's 51st Assembly District
- Félix Fénéon, a French anarchist and art critic
- Felix Habsburg: Felix, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
[edit] Fictional Felix
- Felix the Cat, cartoon character
- Felix Boulevardez, a character in the television series, The Proud Family
- Felix Gaeta, a secondary character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
- Felix Holt, title character in George Eliot's eponymous novel Felix Holt, the Radical.
- Felix Gunn, a minor character in the book series, Children of the Red King
- Felix Jaeger, a character in the Gotrek and Felix series of books
- Felix Leiter, character from the James Bond books and movies
- Felix Sanders, the protagonist of the book series The Divide trilogy
- Felix Unger, character in television series The Odd Couple
- Felix, the protagonist of the novel Armor
- Felix, the title character from a series of Micro Power video games of the early 1980s such as Felix in the Factory
- 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 Lodd, A character in the Edge Chronicles
- Felix, an ex-Roman slave who was Santa's very first helper in Jeff Guinn's The Autobiography of Santa Claus.
[edit] Places
- St. Felix, Prince Edward Island
- Felix, Spain is a small municipality in the Spanish province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia
- Felix Arba, Rab, honorary Roman title of island Rab in Croatia
- San Felix, uninhabited island off the coast of Chile in the Pacific Ocean
- 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] Software
- Apache Felix, an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation.
- Felix (programming language), an open source, community-based programming language
[edit] Other
- Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries
- the Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc
- Operation Felix, a German project to conquer Gibraltar
- Felix (newspaper) is the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London
- St. Felix's Flood, a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530
- Felix B. Maduro, one of the biggest department stores in Panama
- A bar-restaurant located in The Peninsula Hong Kong.
- the Felix meteorite of 1900, which fell in Alabama, United States (see meteorite falls)
- 1664 Felix, an asteroid
- The Free Electron Laser (FEL) for Infrared eXperiments "FELIX", located at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics in Nieuwegein, Netherlands
- Felix Felicis, a potion that makes people lucky in the Harry Potter series
- Felix (guided bomb), an infrared-guided bomb
- Felix (musician), aka Francis Wright, dance/techno act from the early 90's with hits including Don't You Want Me & It Will Make Me Crazy
- Felix Bus Services of Stanley, Derbyshire, England
- Hurricane Felix (2007)
- AB Felix and Felix Austria, food companies

