Felix
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Felix (Latin for "happy" or "lucky") is a male given name and surname. Felix may also refer to:
- Felix (newspaper), the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London
- Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries
- Felix (programming language), an open source, community-based programming language
- Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc
- Felix Felicis, a potion that grants unusually good luck in the Harry Potter series
- Felix Holt, the Radical, a social novel written by George Eliot
- Felix in the Factory, a platform game for home computers published by Micro Power in 1982
- Felix, Net i Nika ("Felix, Net and Nika"), a series of Polish language science fiction books for teenagers
- "FELIX", the Free electron laser for Infrared experiments
- Felix, a meteorite which fell in Alabama in 1900
- Felix the Cat, notable cartoon character
- Felix (musician), a British DJ
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Organizations and establishments
- Felix Austria, an Austrian food company
- Felix B. Maduro, one of the biggest department stores in Panama
- Felix Bus Services of Derbyshire, England
- Felix, a bar-restaurant located in The Peninsula Hong Kong
- Félix Faure, a station of the Paris Métro named after President Félix Faure
- Felix U. Gómez Station, a station on the Line 1 of the Monterrey Metro
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Places
- Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County
- Felix, Spain, a municipality of Almería province, in Andalusia, Spain
- Félix Aguilar Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Argentina
- Felix Varela High School, a secondary school in Miami, Florida
- Felixdorf, a municipality in Lower Austria
- Felixstowe, a town in Suffolk, England
- Arabia Felix, ancient Latin name for Yemen
- Băile Felix, a thermal spa resort in Western Transylvania, Romania
- Dacia Felix, the roman name give to Dacia (modern day in Romania) after Trajanus' conquest
- Isla San Felix, an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile
- Port Felix, Nova Scotia, a small community in Guysborough County
- Saint-Félix, the name or part of the name of several communes in France
- St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a Canadian rural community in Prince County
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See also
- Articles starting with Felix
- 1664 Felix, an asteroid
- AB Felix, a Swedish food company
- Apache Felix, an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation
- Hurricane Felix, a Category 5 hurricane that struck Central America in 2007
- Operation Felix, a German project to conquer Gibraltar
- St. Felix's Flood, a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530
- VB-6 Felix, an infrared-guided bomb
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