Felix 555535 223367016 2008-07-03T19:37:29Z 148.84.34.137 {{Infobox Given Name Revised | name = Felix | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Male | meaning = "lucky" or "successful" | region = | origin = [[Latin]] | related names = | footnotes = }} {{wiktionarypar|Felicia}} {{TOCright}} '''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'']] {{disambig}} [[Category:Given names]] [[Category:Disambiguation pages in need of being split]] [[bg:Феликс]] [[ca:Felix]] [[de:Felix]] [[el:Φήλιξ]] [[es:Felix (desambiguación)]] [[fr:Félix]] [[haw:Felix]] [[hi:Felix]] [[it:Felice]] [[he:פליקס]] [[la:Felix]] [[hu:Félix]] [[nl:Felix]] [[ja:フェリクス]] [[no:Felix]] [[pl:Feliks]] [[pt:Felix]] [[ru:Феликс]] [[sk:Félix]] [[fi:Felix]] [[sv:Felix]] [[tr:Felix]] [[zh:費利克斯]]