Felix

Felix
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Latin
Meaning	"lucky" or "successful"

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.

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)

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)

Bishops and Priests

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

Other men with the name Felix

Felix Riebl, one of the founding members of The Cat Empire
Felix Adler, founder of Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
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

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 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
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
Felix, a member of the Volturi Guard in the Twilight Series
Felix Renton, a secondary character in Disney's Kim Possible

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

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) 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