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Felbamate

Felbamate (Felbatol), a second-generation antiepileptic drug approved by the FDA in 1993 for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and partial seizures, acts on NMDA and GABA receptors but is restricted by boxed warnings for aplastic anemia and hepatic failure.

Felbinac

Felbinac (フェルビナク), 4-biphenylacetic acid, is a topical NSAID (ATC M02AA08) sold as gels, tapes, and paps, chiefly in Japan since 1986, with NNT 3.0 for acute musculoskeletal pain.

Feldbahn

A Feldbahn, also called a Lorenbahn or field railway, is a simple narrow-gauge railway, usually not open to the public, used to move agricultural, forestry, and industrial materials.

Feldberg

Feldberg (Kastell Kleiner Feldberg), a Roman fort on the Kleiner Feldberg in the Taunus north of Frankfurt, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes; highest fort on the frontier, garrisoned by the exploratio Halic(anensium) Alexandriana, occupied ca. 150-260 CE, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Feldioara

Feldioara (Földvár, Marienburg), Brașov County, Romania: village with a medieval fortress long regarded as the Teutonic Knights' Transylvanian headquarters (1211–1225); mortar radiocarbon dating confirmed its early 13th-century stone walls.

Feldspar

Feldspar is a group of rock-forming aluminosilicate minerals containing potassium, sodium, or calcium; it makes up about 60 percent of the Earth's crust and is used mainly in glassmaking and ceramics.

Feleipe Franks

Feleipe Franks, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, #81) and former quarterback at Florida and Arkansas; undrafted 2021 by Atlanta, converted to tight end, 57 career games.

Felesta Fossae

Felesta Fossae is a 570-km-long fossa, a linear tectonic depression, on Venus at 34.5°N, 46.5°E, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for an Amazon queen of Scythian epic tales.

Félibrige

The Félibrige is a literary association founded in Provence in 1854 by seven poets led by Frédéric Mistral to revive the Occitan language of southern France.

Felice Albers

Felice Albers, Dutch field hockey attacker (born 1999, Amstelveen), AH&BC and Oranje number 10; Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, 2022 World Cup gold, and FIH World Player of the Year 2022.

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, husband-and-wife Nashville songwriters, wrote over 6,000 songs including the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" and Tennessee state song "Rocky Top." They were Nashville's first full-time professional songwriters.

Felice Beato

Felice Beato, also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian-born British photographer active from the 1850s to the early 1900s and a pioneer of war photography.

Felice Herrig

Felice Herrig, "Lil Bulldog" (born 1984), American strawweight MMA fighter, Team Curran muay Thai stylist, 14-10 pro record, TUF 20 cast member, UFC 5-5, retired June 2022 after loss to Karolina Kowalkiewicz.

Félicette

Félicette was a black-and-white cat who became the first cat launched into space, flying a French suborbital mission from Algeria on 18 October 1963 and returning alive.

Felicia (Darkstalkers)

Felicia (フェリシア, Ferishia) is Capcom's catwoman fighter from Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994), a musical-star-aspiring character voiced by Kae Araki, second only to Morrigan in crossover appearances, known for Rolling Buckler and Please Help Me! moves.

Felicia Ballanger

Félicia Ballanger, born 1971, is a French track cyclist who dominated women's sprint and 500 m time trial racing in the late 1990s, winning three Olympic gold medals.

Felicia D. Goodrum

Felicia D. Goodrum is an American virologist known for defining the viral genes controlling human cytomegalovirus latency, including UL138, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Felicia Day

Felicia Day (born 1979, Huntsville, Alabama), also called the "queen of the geeks" by media, is an American actor, writer, and producer, creator of the web series The Guild and cofounder of Geek & Sundry, known for Buffy, Supernatural, Dr. Horrible, and her 2015 memoir.

Felicia Eriksson

Felicia Eriksson (Felicia Agneta Eriksson, born 2001), stage name FELICIA, Swedish singer; original voice of masked epadunk persona Fröken Snusk, Masked Singer Sverige winner, and Melodifestivalen 2026 champion with "My System" for Eurovision 2026.

Felicia Farr

Felicia Farr (Olive Felicia Dines, born October 4, 1932) is a retired American actress, western leading lady of Jubal, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Last Wagon, and widow of Jack Lemmon, married 1962.

Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was a British Romantic poet, among the best-selling poets of her day, known for Records of Woman, "Casabianca," and "The Homes of England."

Felícia Marie Knaul

Felicia Marie Knaul is a Canadian-Mexican health economist and UCLA distinguished professor who helped design Mexico's Seguro Popular and led the 2017 Lancet Commission on palliative care.

Felicia Montealegre Bernstein

Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (née Cohn, 1922–1978), Costa Rican-born Chilean-American actress and activist, wife of Leonard Bernstein; television drama star, concert narrator, ACLU Women's Division chair, and Amnesty International worker.

Felicia Pearson

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson (born 1980, Baltimore) is an American actress, rapper, and author who played the assassin Snoop on The Wire, wrote the memoir Grace After Midnight, and in 2011 pleaded guilty in a Baltimore drug case.

Felicia Robinson

Felicia Robinson is an American Democratic politician representing Florida's 104th House district since 2020, serving as House Democratic Deputy Whip and chairing the Florida Legislative Black Caucus for 2026–28.

Felicia Schröder

Felicia Schröder (Sara Linnea Felicia Schröder, born 2007) is a Swedish forward who moved from BK Häcken to Real Madrid in 2026 for a reported women's world-record fee, after the 2025 Damallsvenskan title and inaugural UEFA Women's Europa Cup.

Felicia Spencer

Felicia Spencer 'FeeNom', Canadian women's featherweight MMA fighter born 1990, Invicta FC champion and UFC 250 title challenger against Amanda Nunes; retired 2021 with a 9-3 record.

Feliciano Giustino

Feliciano Giustino is a computational condensed matter physicist, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, known for electron–phonon theory and the open-source EPW code.

Feliciano López

Feliciano López (Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra), Spanish left-handed tennis player born in Toledo, record 79 consecutive Grand Slam main draws, 2016 French Open doubles champion, Madrid Open tournament director since 2019, co-director with Muguruza from 2026.

Felicien Courbet

Félicien Courbet (1888–1967), Belgian breaststroke swimmer and water polo player; held 100 m (1:22.6, 1909) and 200 m (3:00.8, 1910) world records, won 1912 Olympic water polo bronze, coached Spain in 1924.