Felix
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Felix (Latin for "lucky") is a given name and the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional. The surname Felix can be English, Spanish, French or German.
[edit] People
[edit] Saints
- Felix and Adauctus
- Felix and Nabor
- Felix and Regula
- Felix of Burgundy
- Felix of Cantalica
- Felix of Cornwall
- Felix of Girona
- Felix of Nicosia
- Felix of Nola
- Felix of Valois
[edit] Popes
- Pope Felix I (269–274)
- Pope 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 Urgel
[edit] Romans
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, a Roman dictator
- Antonius Felix, procurator of Judaea
- A part of many Roman emperors' titles as a cognomen since Commodus had chosen "Felix" as part of his title
[edit] Moderns
- The pseudonym of Nicholas Wanostrocht, 19th century English cricketer
[edit] Fictional Felix
- Felix, a character from the Nintendo video game series Golden Sun
- Felix Boulevardez, a character in the television series, The Proud Family
- Felix the Cat, cartoon character
- Felix Gaeta, a secondary character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
- 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
- Felix Unger, character in television series The Odd Couple
- Felix Müller, defender of the DHB
- Felix, a character from the video game series SSX
- Felix, the protagonist of the novel Armor
[edit] Places
- St. Felix, Prince Edward Island
- Felix, Spain is a municipality (pop. 566) 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 Atlantic island
- 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] Other
- Felix (brand), 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
- Felix (programming language), an open source, community-based programming language
- St. Felix's Flood, a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530
- Felix B. Maduro, one of the biggest department stores in Panama
- 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 (music group), a dance/techno music group from the beginning of the 90's. Two of their most familiar tracks: "It will make me crazy" & "Don't you want my love".
- Felix Bus Services of Stanley, Derbyshire, England