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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, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.


'''Felix''' may refer to:
==People==
===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]])


* [[Felix (name)]], people and fictional characters with the name
===Popes===
*[[Pope Felix I]] (269–274)
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*[[Antipope Felix II]] (356-365)
*[[Pope Felix III]] (483–492)
*[[Pope Felix IV]] (526-530)


== Places ==
*[[Antipope]] [[Felix V]], earlier Amadeus VIII of Savoy (1439-1449)
* [[Arabia Felix]] is the ancient Latin name of Yemen
* [[Felix, Spain]], a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain
* [[St. Felix, Prince Edward Island]], a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
* [[Felix, Ontario]], an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada
* [[St. Felix, South Tyrol]], a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
* [[Felix, California]], an unincorporated community in Calaveras County
* [[Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois]]
* [[Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa]]


===Bishops and Priests===
== Music ==
*[[Felix of Byzantium]], bishop of [[Byzantium]]
* [[Felix (band)]], a British band
* [[Felix (musician)]], British DJ
*[[Félix Caballero]], a [[Dominican]] Priest
* [[Felix (rapper)]] (born 2000), Australian rapper and member of the K-pop boy band Stray Kids
*[[Felix, Bishop of Urgell]]
* [[Félix Award]], a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc


===Romans===
== Business ==
* [[Felix (pet food)]], a brand of cat food sold in most European countries
*[[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]] '''Felix''', a Roman dictator
*[[Antonius Felix]], procurator of Judaea
* [[AB Felix]], a Swedish food company
*[[Flavius Felix]], a Roman consul
* [[Felix Bus Services]] of Derbyshire, England
* [[Felix Airways]], an airline based in Yemen
*A part of many Roman emperors' titles as a [[List of Roman cognomina#F|cognomen]] since Commodus had chosen "Felix" as part of his title


== Science and technology ==
===Other men with the name Felix===
*[[Felix Riebl]], one of the founding members of [[The Cat Empire]]
* [[Apache Felix]], an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation
* [[1664 Felix]], an asteroid
*[[Felix Adler]], founder of Ethical Culture Fieldston School
* [[Free-electron laser]] for infrared experiments (FELIX), a type of laser
*[[Felix Andries Vening Meinesz]]
* [[FELIX (experiment)]], a Roger Penrose proposal for evaluating whether macroscopic systems can be in superposition states
*[[Felix Batista]], American security expert
*[[Felix Bwalya]], Boxer
*[[Felix Calonder]]
*[[Felix Dzerzhinsky]], Soviet statesman
*[[Félix Fénéon]], a French anarchist and art critic
*[[Felix Guattari]], French psychotherapist and philosopher
*[[Felix Habsburg]]: Felix, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
*[[Félix Hernández]], Venezuelan Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
*[[Felix Hoffmann]], German chemist and inventor of Aspirin
*[[Felix Klein]], German mathematician
*[[Felix von Luckner]], German nobleman and navy officer
*[[Felix Guattari]], French psychotherapist and philosopher
*[[Felix Mendelssohn]], German composer
*[[Felix Montez]], President, Minnesota Log Cabin Republicans
*[[Felix Ortiz]], Representative of New York's 51st Assembly District
*[[Félix Potvin]], former ice hockey goaltender
*[[Felix Schütz]], German ice hockey player
*[[Felix Standaert]]
*[[Félix Trinidad]], Puerto Rican boxer
*[[Félix Varela]], Cuban churchman
*[[Felix Vasquez]]
*[[Felix Wankel]], German inventor of the Wankel engine
*[[Felix Yusupov]], Russian noble famous for his part in the murder of Grigory Rasputin
*[[León Félix Batista]], Dominican poet
*[[Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg]], Austrian statesman and part of Europe's highest nobility
*[[Prince Félix of Luxembourg]]
*[[Prince Felix of Denmark]], Danish prince
*The pseudonym of [[Nicholas Wanostrocht]], 19th century English cricketer
*[[Felix Da Housecat]], a House music DJ and record producer
*[[Alberto Felix]], Portuguese electronic expert


== Fictional Felix==
== Warfare ==
* [[Operation Felix]], a German World War II project to conquer Gibraltar
*[[Felix the Cat]], cartoon character
* [[VB-6 Felix]], an infrared-guided bomb
*Felix Boulevardez, a character in the television series, [[The Proud Family]]
* [[Dieter Gerhardt]] (born 1935), South African navy commander convicted of treason, code named Felix
*[[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 Krull]], protagonist of Thomas Mann's novel ''Confessions of Felix Krull''
*[[Felix Leiter]], character from the James Bond books and movies
*Felix Sanders, the protagonist of the book series [[The Divide trilogy|''The Divide'' trilogy]]
*[[Felix Unger]], character in television series The Odd Couple
*Felix, the protagonist of the novel [[Armor (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 [[List of characters in Golden Sun#Felix|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''
*Felix, a member of the [[Volturi]] Guard in the Twilight Series
*Felix Renton, a secondary character in [[Disney]]'s [[Kim Possible]]


==Places==
== Other uses ==
* [[Felix (newspaper)|''Felix'' (newspaper)]], the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London
*[[St. Felix, Prince Edward Island]]
* [[Felix (ship, 1993)]], a passenger ship operating on Lake Zurich in Switzerland
*[[Felix, Spain]] is a small municipality in the Spanish province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia
* [[Hurricane Felix (disambiguation)]], various storms
*[[Felix Arba, Rab]], honorary Roman title of island [[Rab]] in Croatia
*[[San Felix]], uninhabited island off the coast of Chile in the Pacific Ocean
* [[Venus Felix (sculpture)]], a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid
* [[Felix (Hewlett-Packard)]], a codename for the HP 200LX palmtop PC
*[[Saint-Félix]] is the name or part of the name of several places
* [[Felix (1921 film)|''Felix'' (1921 film)]], a Norwegian silent drama film
*[[Băile Felix]], a thermal spa resort in Western Transylvania, Romania
* [[Felix (1996 film)|''Felix'' (1996 film)]], a Slovene film
*[[Felixstowe]], city in England
* Felix Media, film company resident at [[Carriageworks#Felix_Media|Carriageworks]] arts centre in Sydney, Australia
*[[Felixdorf]], a town in Austria

==Software==
* [[Apache Felix]], an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation.
* [[Felix (programming language)]], an open source, community-based programming language

==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)|''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 [[List of named asteroids (F-K)|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
* [[VB-6 Felix guided bomb|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


== See also ==
== See also ==
{{canned search|felix}}
* [[Felicia]]
* [[Special:Allpages/Felix|Articles starting with ''Felix'']]
* [[Felix the Cat (disambiguation)]]
* [[St. Felix's flood]], a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530

* [[Saint-Félix (disambiguation)]], the name or part of the name of several communes in France
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* [[San Félix (disambiguation)]], the name of two places in South America
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* [[Church of St. Felix (disambiguation)]]
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* {{in title}}
* [[Felicia (disambiguation)]]
* [[Felicity (disambiguation)]]


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Latest revision as of 09:47, 21 November 2024

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Felix may refer to:

Places

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Music

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Science and technology

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Warfare

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  • Operation Felix, a German World War II project to conquer Gibraltar
  • VB-6 Felix, an infrared-guided bomb
  • Dieter Gerhardt (born 1935), South African navy commander convicted of treason, code named Felix

Other uses

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See also

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