This time in our series First Names First we have Felix! Below is a chronological list of some of the men born with that name. Pick one and then follow the Wikipedia link to read about these men, and to see what if anything they could contribute your life with. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived all have something to tell us – let them!

Felix Platter* Swiss physician/the first to describe a meningioma – Basel (1536)
Félix Castello* painter – Madrid, Spanish Empire (1595)

Felix Doran* Irish slave trader operating out of the Port of Liverpool – Ireland (1708)
Felix Benda* organist/composer – Skalsko, Bohemia (1708)
Félix Savart* physicist/mathematician – Paris, Kingdom of France (1791)

Felix Mendelssohn* composer/conductor – Hamburg, Germany (1809) pic
Felix Klein* German mathematician – Düsseldorf, Prussia (1849)

Felix Alexander McHugh* ranch owner – Ottawa, Canada West (1851)
Felix von Winiwarter* physician – Vienna, Austria (1852)
Felix Graf von Bothmer* WW1 general – Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation (1852)
Felix Hoffmann* chemist/pharmacist/probable inventor of aspirin – Ludwigsburg, Germany (1868)
Felix Salten* author/ literary critic – Pest, Austria-Hungary (1869)
Félix d’Hérelle* French-Canadian microbiologist – Paris, French Third Republic (1873)
Felix Pipes* Austrian tennis player (OSd)/physician – Prague, Austria-Hungary (1887)

Felix Bloch* physicist/N – Zürich, Switzerland (1905)

Felix Herngren* actor/ director/writer – Stockholm, Sweden (1967)
Felix Baumgartner* skydiver/ daredevil – Salzburg, Austria (1969)

Felix Brych* football referee/lawyer –  Munich, Germany (1975)
Felix van Groeningen* film director/ screenwriter – Ghent, Belgium (1977)

Felix Streng* German Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG/to Germany at age 6 – La Paz, Bolivia (1995)
Felix Kammerer* actor – Vienna, Austria (1995)
Felix Sandman* singer/songwriter/actor – Värmdö, Sweden (1998)

Prince Felix of Denmark* prince – Copenhagen, Denmark (2002)

Updated 10.6.2023