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Felix Solis
Felix Solis, born 1971 in New York City, is an American Nuyorican actor, director, and producer known for cartel boss Omar Navarro in Ozark, FBI Agent Matthew Garza in The Rookie, and LAByrinth theatre work.
Felix Steiner
Felix Steiner (1896–1966), German Waffen-SS general born in Stallupönen, East Prussia; trained the SS-Verfügungstruppe on storm-battalion tactics, commanded Division Wiking and III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps, defied Hitler's 1945 Berlin relief order, and later wrote apologist works rehabilitating the Waffen-SS.
Felix the Cat
Felix the Cat, also called Master Tom in his 1919 debut Feline Follies, is an American silent-era cartoon character from the Pat Sullivan studio, credited to Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan, star of about 180 shorts and the 1958-1962 TV series.
Felix Timmermans
Felix Timmermans (1886–1947) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and painter from Lier, Belgium, whose debut novel Pallieter (1916) sold about 1 million copies internationally.
Félix Tisserand
Félix Tisserand (1845–1896) was a French astronomer and celestial mechanician, director of the Paris Observatory, author of the Traité de mécanique céleste, and origin of the Tisserand parameter.
Félix Trinidad
Félix "Tito" Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer born 1973 in Fajardo, three-division world champion (IBF welterweight, WBA junior middleweight and middleweight), 42-3 with 35 KOs, famous for the 1999 De La Hoya win and 2001 Hopkins loss, IBHOF 2014.
Félix Trombe
Félix Trombe (1906–1985) was a French engineer-chemist and CNRS research director who built the world's first solar furnace at Mont-Louis in 1949 and invented the Trombe wall.
Félix Tshisekedi
Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Congolese president since 24 January 2019 and re-elected December 2023 with 73% of the vote; son of Étienne Tshisekedi, UDPS leader, broke from Kabila via the Sacred Union, and faces the Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion in eastern DRC.
Felix Uff
Felix Uff (born 1994) is a British actor and writer from Suffolk, trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, known as Ryder Hawkins in EastEnders and for Outlander, FBI: International, and 100 Nights of Hero.
Félix Ulloa
Félix Ulloa is a Salvadoran lawyer and politician of the Nuevas Ideas party who has served as Vice President of El Salvador since 2019, elected alongside President Nayib Bukele.
Fèlix Urpí
Fèlix Urpí (Fèlix Urpí Tubella) is a Spanish organic chemist, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Universitat de Barcelona, known for titanium enolate methods and stereoselective synthesis.
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-born painter and printmaker who worked in Paris, best known for bold black-and-white woodcuts of the 1890s and tense paintings of interiors, nudes, and landscapes.
Félix Varela
Félix Varela y Morales was a Cuban Catholic priest and philosopher, deputy to the Spanish Cortes, regarded as the founder of constitutional science in Cuba.
Félix Verdejo
Félix Verdejo (El Diamante), Puerto Rican lightweight boxer, 2012 Olympian, 27-2 (17 KOs) pro, WBO Latino champion 2015-17, Top Rank prospect; convicted 2023 of kidnapping and killing Keishla Rodríguez, sentenced to life in prison.
Felix Villars
Felix Villars (1921–2002) was a Swiss-born American theoretical physicist, on the MIT faculty for 41 years, best known for Pauli–Villars regularization with Wolfgang Pauli and for founding biological physics at MIT.
Felix von Oppen
Felix von Oppen (born 1966 in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin, known for Majorana bound states in quantum wires and helical Shiba chains.
Felix Wankel
Felix Heinrich Wankel (1902–1988) was a largely self-taught German inventor who conceived the Wankel rotary piston engine, a triangular-rotor engine developed at NSU and mass-produced by NSU and Mazda.
Félix Wazekwa
Félix Wazekwa, born Nlandu Wazekwa Félix in Kinshasa in 1962, is a Congolese rumba singer-songwriter who wrote for Koffi Olomidé and Papa Wemba before a solo career.
Felix Weinberg
Felix Jiri Weinberg (1928–2012) was a British combustion physicist who spent his career at Imperial College London, pioneering optical flame diagnostics, electric-field combustion control, and the heat-recirculating burner.
Felix Wieland
Felix T. Wieland, born 1948, is a German biochemist and founding director of Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for work on COPI-coated vesicles and bulk-flow transport.
Felix Y. Feng
Felix Y. Feng (1975–2024) was an American radiation oncologist and prostate cancer researcher who was a professor at UCSF and developed the first clinical-grade biomarker panels predicting hormone- and radiation-therapy response.
Felix Yusupov
Felix Yusupov, Russian prince and husband of Irina Alexandrovna, organized Rasputin's 1916 murder at his Moika Palace and later shaped its legend through memoirs written in French exile.
Félix Zamora
Félix Zamora is a Spanish materials chemist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid who studies covalent organic frameworks, 2D materials, and coordination polymers, and won the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Excellence Award in 2015.
Felix Zijlstra
Felix Zijlstra is a Dutch interventional cardiologist, head of cardiology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the Zwolle trials and for chairing the TAPAS thrombus-aspiration trial.
Felix zu Schwarzenberg
Felix zu Schwarzenberg was an Austrian statesman and diplomat who served as Minister-President and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 until his death in 1852.
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1802–1878) was a French Catholic bishop of Orléans, educator, and orator, known for the 1850 Falloux Law and for leading minority bishops at the First Vatican Council.
Félix-Roland Moumié
Félix-Roland Moumié (1925–1960) was a Cameroonian physician and anticolonial politician who, as president of the UPC, led Cameroon's independence campaign from exile until poisoned in Geneva.
Feliz Ano Novo
Feliz Ano Novo is a 1975 collection of fifteen short stories by the Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca, an immediate bestseller that the military dictatorship banned nationwide in 1976.
Feliz Navidad (song)
Feliz Navidad is a bilingual Spanish-English Christmas song written and recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano for his RCA Victor holiday album, with 19 words of lyrics, a 2010 Grammy Hall of Fame induction, and a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 in 2020.
Felkin–Anh model
The Felkin–Anh model predicts which face of a carbonyl a nucleophile attacks when the adjacent carbon is a stereocenter, refining Cram's rule in 1968; it places the α-carbon's largest substituent perpendicular to the carbonyl bond.