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Félix Dolci
Félix Dolci, Canadian artistic gymnast born 2002 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec. First Canadian junior world champion (rings, 2019), 2023 Pan Am all-around gold, four golds at Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Felix Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский)
Felix Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский), "Iron Felix" (1877–1926), Polish-born Bolshevik who founded and led the Cheka, directed the Red Terror, later headed transport and industry, and is being rehabilitated in Russia.
Félix Éboué
Félix Éboué (1884–1944), Guyana-born French colonial administrator, first Black governor (Guadeloupe 1936) and governor-general of French Equatorial Africa; rallied Chad to Free France in 1940, shaped the 1944 Brazzaville Conference, buried in the Panthéon.
Felix Ehrenhaft
Felix Ehrenhaft (1879–1952) was an Austrian experimental physicist at the University of Vienna known for discovering photophoresis in 1918 and for his long dispute with Robert Millikan over indivisible electric charge.
Felix Ehrlich
Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942) was a German biochemist at the Institut für Zuckerindustrie in Berlin who identified the Ehrlich pathway of fusel alcohol formation in yeast.
Felix Endrich
Felix Endrich (1921–1953), Swiss bobsledder; Olympic two-man gold with Fritz Waller at St. Moritz 1948, world two-man champion 1949 and 1953; killed in a four-man trial run at Garmisch-Partenkirchen days after his 1953 title.
Felix Eugen Fritsch
Felix Eugen Fritsch (1879–1954) was a British botanist, the leading British authority on freshwater algae and author of The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae.
Felix F. Wu
Felix F. Wu, also known as Felix Fulih Wu, is an electrical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for power system stability methods.
Félix Faure
Félix Faure (François Félix Faure), 1841-1899, French President of the Republic 1895-1899; Le Havre leather merchant and moderate republican deputy; promoted the Franco-Russian alliance and Fashoda evacuation; died suddenly at the Élysée.
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Vienna-born American jurist and Harvard professor, was an FDR-appointed Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–1962, known for judicial restraint, founding the ACLU, and clashing with the Warren Court.
Félix Freire
Félix Freire, born in Marín in 1977, is a Spanish organic chemist known for work on stimuli-responsive helical polymers, a Full Professor at the University of Vigo since 2024.
Felix G. Fleischner
Felix G. Fleischner (1893–1969) was an Austrian-American radiologist known for the Fleischner lines and sign, who fled Nazi Austria in 1938 and led radiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (1957–1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist whose participatory works of candy spills, paper stacks, and paired clocks address love, loss, and the AIDS crisis, inviting viewers to take pieces away.
Felix Gottwald
Felix Gottwald, Austrian Nordic combined skier born 1976 in Zell am See, SC Saalfelden; seven Olympic medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze), 11 World Championship medals, 23 World Cup wins; shares the record as most decorated Nordic combined Olympian with Eric Frenzel.
Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychoanalyst and La Borde clinic therapist trained by Lacan, co-wrote Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus with Gilles Deleuze and created schizoanalysis, transversality, and ecosophy's three ecologies.
Felix Hagan
Felix Hagan, British composer and performer, Co-Artistic Director of SpitLip and co-writer of the Olivier-winning, Tony-nominated musical Operation Mincemeat; also fronts Felix Hagan & The Family and released the solo album Happy Songs.
Felix Haurowitz
Felix Haurowitz was a Czech-born biochemist and immunochemist, born in Prague in 1896, known for the template theory of antibody formation and pioneering work on hemoglobin.
Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff, who also wrote philosophy and literature as Paul Mongré, was a German mathematician who founded set-theoretic topology with his 1914 Grundzüge der Mengenlehre.
Felix Hemerli
Felix Hemerli, also known as Felix Hemmerlin or Felix Malleolus, was a Swiss Catholic canonist and church-reform advocate from Zurich, born in 1388 or 1389.
Felix Hemmerlin
Felix Hemmerlin, also called Felix Malleolus, was a Swiss canonist and provost of Solothurn who wrote more than thirty polemical treatises on church reform, witchcraft, and the Swiss Confederacy.
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández, "King Félix," Venezuelan pitcher who spent his entire 15-year career (2005-2019) with the Seattle Mariners; 2010 AL Cy Young winner, 2012 perfect game, Mariners' all-time strikeout leader, 46.1% on 2026 Hall of Fame ballot.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, born Dia Houphouët, was an Ivorian physician and politician who served as the first president of Côte d'Ivoire, from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993.
Felix III
Felix III, born Caelius Felix, was pope from 483 to 492 who excommunicated Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople in 484, opening the Acacian schism that lasted until 519.
Felix Ike
Felix Ike is a Nigerian software engineer who co-founded the payments company Moniepoint with Tosin Eniolorunda in 2015 as TeamApt and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Felix IV
Felix IV, sometimes numbered Felix III, was the 54th pope from 526 to 530, appointed by King Theodoric the Great and venerated as a saint.
Felix Jacob Marchand
Felix Jacob Marchand (1846–1928) was a German pathologist and professor of pathological anatomy in Leipzig, remembered for coining "atherosclerosis" in 1904 and showing that choriocarcinoma arises from fetal tissue.
Felix Jaehn
Felix Jaehn (Fee), German DJ and producer born 1994 in Hamburg, broke through with the OMI "Cheerleader" remix, #1 in 55 countries; albums I, BREATHE, NAGTTB+; non-binary since 2024.
Felix Kammerer
Felix Kammerer, born 1995 in Vienna, is an Austrian Burgtheater actor and son of opera singer Angelika Kirchschlager; his film debut as Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix, 2022) won four 2023 Oscars.
Felix Kanitz
Felix Philipp Kanitz (1829–1904) was an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist, ethnographer, and travel writer, known as the Columbus of the Balkans. His maps and studies of Serbia and Bulgaria remain key sources on nineteenth-century Southeast Europe.
Felix Kersten
Felix Kersten (1898–1960) was a Finnish masseur of Baltic origin who became Heinrich Himmler's personal therapist; his fame as a rescuer of Nazi victims rests largely on unreliable memoirs.