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Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist who measured gravity at sea from submarines and discovered belts of negative gravity anomalies along the Indonesian deep-sea trenches.
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player (born 2000, Montreal), career-high ATP No. 4 in June 2026, 2022 Davis Cup champion with Canada, first player born in the 2000s to earn an ATP ranking.
Félix Awards
The Félix Awards (Prix Félix) are Quebec's main music awards, presented annually since 1979 by ADISQ and named for singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc; their televised gala is among Quebec's most-watched events.
Felix Badcock
Felix Badcock (John Charles Badcock, 1903–1976), British Olympic rower of Thames Rowing Club; silver in the eights at Amsterdam 1928 and gold at stroke in the coxless fours at Los Angeles 1932; husband of swimmer Joyce Cooper.
Félix Baloy
Félix Baloy is a Cuban sonero born in 1944 in Mayarí, known as a lead singer with Adalberto Álvarez y su son and the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Felix Balshaw
Felix Balshaw, French tennis player born 2006 in Leeds, right-handed, 191 cm. Won 2026 Rafa Nadal Open Challenger; career-high ATP singles No. 193 (September 2026).
Felix Balyu
Felix Balyu (Félix Charles Louis Balyu, 1891–1971), Belgian midfielder for Club Brugge and gold medalist in men's football at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; his only international cap was the 3:1 quarter-final win over Spain.
Felix Banaszak
Felix Banaszak, born 1989 in Duisburg, is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, a Bundestag member since 2021 and federal co-chair of the party since 2024.
Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner (1969 to 2025) was an Austrian skydiver who jumped from a helium balloon over New Mexico in 2012, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier in freefall.
Felix Behrend
Felix Adalbert Behrend was a German-born mathematician at the University of Melbourne known for his 1946 construction of large sets of integers with no three-term arithmetic progression.
Felix Bernstein (German mathematician)
Felix Bernstein (1878–1956) was a German mathematician and statistician who proved the Schröder–Bernstein theorem as a teenager and showed in 1924 that ABO blood groups inherit as three alleles.
Felix Biestek
Felix Biestek (1912–1994) was an American Jesuit priest and sociologist at Loyola University Chicago whose 1957 book The Casework Relationship codified seven principles of social work.
Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch (1905–1983) was a Swiss-born American physicist at Stanford University who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in bulk matter.
Felix Boehm
Felix Boehm (1924–2021) was a Swiss-born experimental nuclear and particle physicist who spent his career at Caltech and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
Felix Browder
Felix Earl Browder (1927–2016) was an American mathematician who pioneered nonlinear functional analysis and monotone operator theory, taught at Chicago and Rutgers, and received the 1999 National Medal of Science.
Felix Cameron
Felix Cameron (born 2009, Melbourne) is an Australian actor known as young Eli Bell in Netflix's Boy Swallows Universe, winning a Silver Logie, AACTA, and Asian Academy Creative Award; also in Penguin Bloom, The Run, and Last Seen.
Felix Capital
Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Frederic Court in 2015 that invests thematically in digital-lifestyle, consumer, and creative-economy companies across Europe and the United States.
Felix Capital Next
Felix Capital Next is a series of venture capital funds raised by London firm Felix Capital, including Next II, which raised about $298 million in 2022.
Felix Cartal
Felix Cartal is the stage name of Taelor Deitcher, a Canadian DJ and producer from Vancouver who moved from electro-house to vocal-driven dance pop, winning two JUNO Awards.
Felix Cavaliere
Felix Cavaliere (born 1942, Pelham, New York) is the singer, Hammond organist, and songwriter who co-founded the Rascals, co-writing and singing "Good Lovin'," "Groovin'," and "People Got to Be Free." A Rock & Roll (1997) and Songwriters (2009) Hall of Famer, he later recorded solo and with Steve Cropper.
Félix Couchoro
Félix Couchoro (1900–1968) was a novelist and journalist, born in Dahomey and later a Togolese citizen, one of the first African novelists writing in French.
Felix Creutzig
Felix Creutzig, born 1979 in Hannover, is a German climate mitigation scientist who heads groups at MCC Berlin and the Potsdam Institute, and holds a TU Berlin chair.
Félix d'Hérelle
Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist who discovered the bacteriophage, a virus that kills bacteria, reported it in 1917, and first used it to treat dysentery patients in 1919.
Felix da Housecat
Felix da Housecat, born Felix Stallings Jr., is an American house music DJ and producer from Chicago, known for his 2001 album Kittenz and Thee Glitz.
Felix de Andreis
Felix de Andreis (Felice De Andreis, 1778–1820) was an Italian Vincentian priest who became the first superior of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States.
Félix de Azara
Félix de Azara was a Spanish military engineer and amateur naturalist who spent 20 years, from 1781 to 1801, on boundary commissions in Paraguay and the Río de la Plata.
Felix Denayer
Felix Denayer (Félix Denayer), born 1990, Belgian field hockey midfielder and Red Lions captain; five Olympics 2008-2024, Tokyo 2020 gold, Rio 2016 silver, 402 caps, KHC Dragons club legend.
Felix Deschler
Felix Deschler (Félix Deschler) is a physical chemist studying ultrafast spectroscopy of hybrid perovskites, known for photon recycling in perovskite solar cells and Full Professor at Heidelberg University since 2022.
Félix Dévé
Félix Augustin Dévé (1872–1951) was a French physician and hospital doctor in Rouen, regarded as the great specialist of echinococcosis, a parasitic disease causing hydatid cysts.
Félix Díaz
Félix Díaz (1868–1945) was a Mexican general and politician, a nephew of President Porfirio Díaz, who led the 1912 Veracruz rebellion and co-led the February 1913 coup against Madero.