Felix

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Felix (Latin for "happy, prosperous") is the name of many different individuals, both real and fictional.

Contents 1 Church people 1.1 Popes 2 Fictional Felix 3 People 3.1 Roman Empire 4 Places 5 Other

Church people

• Felix of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium
• Saint Felix of Dunwich, Apostle of East Anglia
• Félix Caballero - Priest
• Félix Varela - Priest

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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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