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Felix (Latin for "happy, prosperous") is the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional.
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Church people
- Felix of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium
- Saint Felix of Dunwich, Apostle of East Anglia
- Félix Caballero - Priest
- Félix Varela - Priest
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Popes
- Pope Felix I (269–274)
- Pope Felix II (356-365)
- Pope Felix III (483–492)
- Pope Felix IV (526-530)
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Fictional Felix
- Felix the Cat - cartoon character
- Felix Unger - character in television series, The Odd Couple
- Felix Leiter - character from the James Bond books and movies
- Felix is a character from the GBA series Golden Sun.
- Felix Felicis - A Potion that makes people Lucky in Harry Potter.
- Felix Jaeger- a character in the Gotrek and Felix sereis of books.
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People
- Felix Arauz - Ecuadorian painter
- Felix Wells - Son of novelist Kate Saunders.
- Allyson Felix - African American athlete
- Sylviane Felix - French athlete
- Felix Mendelssohn - classical composer.
- Felix Bloch - physicist
- Felix Frankfurter - judge
- Felix Jankowski - idler
- Felix Klein - mathematician
- Felix Wankel - engineer
- Felix Meissner - physicist
- Felix Riebl - lead singer of The Cat Empire
Félix Poussineau- French couturier of the Belle Epoque era
- Felix Pollock - Guitarist and singer of Sikanna
- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, which gradually evolved into the KGB.
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Roman Empire
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix - Roman dictator
- Antonius Felix, procurator of Judaea
- Felix was part of many Roman emperors' titles as a cognomen since Commodus had chosen this name as part of his title.
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Places
- Felix is a municipality (pop. 566) in the Spanish province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia
- Croatia - honorary roman title of island Rab in Croatia.
- 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
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Other
- "Felix" cat food, sold in most European countries.
- The Felix Awards are a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc.
- Operation Felix, a German project to conquer Gibraltar.
- Felix is the weekly newspaper of Imperial College, London
- The Felix programming language.
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