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Félix Kir
Félix Kir was a French Catholic priest, Resistance figure, and mayor of Dijon from 1945 until his death in 1968; the kir apéritif is named for him.
Felix Klein
Felix Klein, born Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), was a German mathematician, professor at Göttingen from 1886, whose 1872 Erlanger Programm unified geometries through group invariants and shaped modern mathematics.
Felix Kröcher
Felix Kröcher is a German hard techno DJ and radio host born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, playing some 100 shows a year and voted FAZEmag 'Best DJ' in 2025.
Felix Lang
Felix Lang is a German physicist who leads the ROSI group at the University of Potsdam; his perovskite tandem solar cells flew on the maiden Ariane 6 launch in 2024.
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is Ian Fleming's fictional Texan CIA agent and James Bond's American friend, debuting in Casino Royale (1953), maimed by a shark in Live and Let Die, played by eight actors in ten films, and killed on screen in No Time to Die (2021).
Felix Limo
Felix Limo, Kenyan marathon runner born 1980, won Rotterdam (2:06:14 CR, 2004), Berlin 2004, Chicago 2005, and London 2006; former 15 km road world record holder (41:29, Nijmegen 2001); retired January 2013.
Felix Loch
Felix Loch, German luger (Rennrodler) born 1989 in Sonneberg, three-time Olympic champion in men's singles (Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014) and team relay, youngest ever luge World Champion.
Félix Lucas
Félix Lucas, full name Félix Benjamin Lucas, was a French civil engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées corps, 1836 to 1914, known for the Gauss–Lucas theorem.
Felix Magath
Felix Magath (Wolfgang Felix Magath, born 1953) is a German football manager and former midfielder; European Cup winner with Hamburg 1983, coach of Bayern's 2005 and 2006 doubles and Wolfsburg's 2009 Bundesliga title.
Felix Mallard
Felix Mallard (born 1998, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and musician who plays Marcus Baker in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia; he debuted as Ben Kirk on Neighbours at 15, starred in Happy Together after being picked by Harry Styles, and appeared in Locke & Key and Turtles All the Way Down.
Felix Manalo
Felix Manalo, born Félix Ysagun Manalo, was a Filipino religious leader who founded the Iglesia ni Cristo in 1914 and led it for nearly five decades.
Félix María Calleja del Rey
Félix María Calleja del Rey was a Spanish soldier who commanded royalist forces in the Mexican War of Independence and served as viceroy of New Spain from 1813 to 1816.
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn (Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809–1847), German Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and conductor of the Gewandhaus Leipzig; revived Bach's St Matthew Passion in 1829, wrote the Violin Concerto and Elijah, and was banned by the Nazis.
Felix Milgrom
Felix Milgrom (1919–2007) was a Polish-born immunologist who chaired Microbiology and Immunology at the University at Buffalo from 1967 to 1985, known for anti-antibodies, rheumatoid factor, and transplant rejection research.
Felix Moscheles
Felix Moscheles, full name Felix Stone Moscheles (1833–1917), was an English painter and peace activist who chaired the International Arbitration and Peace Association from 1897.
Felix N. Castellano
Felix N. Castellano, also known as Felix Castellano, is an American photochemist who studies photochemical upconversion and solar fuels as a chemistry professor at North Carolina State University.
Felix Neff
Felix Neff was a Swiss Protestant evangelist, born in Geneva in 1797, remembered as the apostle of the Hautes-Alpes for his ministry in the Dauphiné valleys.
Felix Nmecha
Felix Kalu Nmecha, German midfielder at Borussia Dortmund (number 8) and Germany international; ex-Manchester City academy and VfL Wolfsburg, €30m 2023 signing, 2026 World Cup scorer.
Felix Okpara
Felix Eberechukwu Okpara (born 2004, Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian center for the Washington Wizards; drafted 46th in 2026 by Orlando, traded to Washington, two-time Tennessee shot-blocker and SEC All-Defensive pick.
Felix Pappalardi
Felix Pappalardi (1939–1983), American producer, bassist, and vocalist; produced Cream's Disraeli Gears and co-founded Mountain, whose "Mississippi Queen" hit number 21; killed by his wife Gail Collins in 1983.
Felix Paul Kapron
Felix Paul Kapron is a physicist at Corning Glass Works, first author of the 1970 paper reporting the first optical fiber with loss below 20 dB/km.
Felix Pirani
Felix Pirani was a British mathematical physicist who helped establish that gravitational waves are a real, observable prediction of general relativity while working at King's College London.
Félix Plasencia
Félix Plasencia is a Venezuelan diplomat and career foreign service officer serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade since July 2026, after serving as foreign minister from 2021 to 2022.
Felix Pollaczek
Félix Pollaczek (1892–1981) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, a pioneer of queueing and teletraffic theory best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula, derived in 1930.
Felix R. Fischer
Felix R. Fischer (born 1980) is a German-trained American-based organic chemist and professor at UC Berkeley known for building graphene nanoribbons atom by atom through organic synthesis.
Félix Ratjen
Felix Ratjen is a German-trained Canadian pediatric respirologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for clinical trials of CFTR modulator drugs in children with cystic fibrosis.
Félix Rodríguez (soldier)
Félix Rodríguez (Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutía), Cuban-born CIA paramilitary officer of the Bay of Pigs, present at Che Guevara's 1967 capture and execution in Bolivia; later Iran-Contra figure under alias Max Gomez.
Félix Sánchez (hurdler)
Félix Sánchez (Félix Sánchez Marcelo), Dominican 400m hurdler born 1977 in New York; double Olympic champion (Athens 2004, London 2012, both 47.63), world champion 2001 and 2003, 43-race win streak; not the football coach Félix Sánchez Bas.
Felix Savon
Félix Savón Fabré, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer born 1967 in Guantánamo; won Olympic gold in 1992, 1996, and 2000 and six straight world titles 1986-1997; never turned professional.
Felix Silla
Felix Anthony Silla, also credited Felix Cilla (1937–2021), Italian-born circus performer turned Hollywood actor and stuntman, 3'11" tall; played Cousin Itt on The Addams Family, Twiki on Buck Rogers, an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, and doubled Short Round in Indiana Jones.