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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.
==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===
*[[Felix of Byzantium]], bishop of [[Byzantium]]
*[[Félix Caballero]], a Priest
*[[Felix, Bishop of Urgell]]
===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 [[List of Roman cognomina#F|cognomen]] since Commodus had chosen "Felix" as part of his title
===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
== 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|''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''.
==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)|''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 ==
* [[Felicia]]
* [[Special:Allpages/Felix|Articles starting with ''Felix'']]
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