Felix may refer to: *

Felix (name) Felix is a given name that stems from Latin (genitive ) and means "happy" or "lucky". Its other form is Felicity. In German, Dutch, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian and Scandinavian languages the form "Felix" is the same as English. In French, Hun ...

, people and fictional characters with the name

Places

Arabia Felix Arabia Felix (literally: Fertile/Happy Arabia; also Ancient Greek: Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία, ''Eudaemon Arabia'') was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe South Arabia, or what is now Yemen. Etymology The term Arabi ...

is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain * St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. * Felix, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada * St. Felix, South Tyrol, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy. * Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County

Music

* Felix (band), a British band *

Felix (musician) Felix (born Francis Reuben Wright) is a British producer and DJ. He is known for his hit track "Don't You Want Me" and his underground house project "The Party Crashers". Life and career Felix was born in Chelmsford, Essex. His passion for mu ...

, British DJ *

Félix Award The Félix Award (french: Trophée Félix or Prix Félix) is an award, given by the ''Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois'' ( ADISQ) on an annual basis to artists working in the music and humor industry in the Canadian ...

, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc

Business

* Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries *

AB Felix AB Felix was a Swedish food company with seat in Eslöv. Felix was a part of Orkla since 1995. Its main products were produced from potatoes and pickles. The company was founded by Herbert Felix (1908-1973) who arrived in Sweden 1938 as a refu ...

, a Swedish food company * Felix Bus Services of Derbyshire, England * Felix Airways, an airline based in Yemen

Science and technology

Apache Felix Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Core Release 6 framework specification. The initial codebase was donated from the Oscar project at ObjectWeb. The developers worked on Felix for a full year and have made various improvem ...

, an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation * 1664 Felix, an asteroid *

Free-electron laser A free-electron laser (FEL) is a (fourth generation) light source producing extremely brilliant and short pulses of radiation. An FEL functions and behaves in many ways like a laser, but instead of using stimulated emission from atomic or molecula ...

for infrared experiments (FELIX), a type of laser * FELIX (experiment), a Roger Penrose proposal for evaluating whether macroscopic systems can be in superposition states

Warfare

Operation Felix Operation Felix (german: Unternehmen Felix) was the codename for a proposed Nazi German invasion of Spain and seizure of Gibraltar during the Second World War. Subject to the co-operation of the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, the operation ...

, a German World War II project to conquer Gibraltar *

VB-6 Felix The VB-6 Felix was a precision-guided munition developed by the United States during World War II. It used an infrared seeker to attack targets like blast furnaces or the metal roofs of large factories. The war ended before it could be used opera ...

, an infrared-guided bomb *

Dieter Gerhardt Dieter Felix Gerhardt (born 1 November 1935) is a former commodore in the South African Navy and commander of the strategic Simon's Town naval dockyard. He was arrested by the FBI in New York City in 1983 following information obtained from a ...

(born 1935), South African navy commander convicted of treason, code named Felix

Other uses

* ''Felix'' (newspaper), the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London *

Felix (ship, 1993) Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, ...

, a passenger ship operating on Lake Zurich in Switzerland *

Hurricane Felix (disambiguation) The name Felix was used for five tropical cyclones, five in the Atlantic Ocean one in the Australian region, as well as for one extratropical European windstorm. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Felix (1989) – Category 1 hurricane that did no ...

, various storms *

Venus Felix (sculpture) The Venus Felix is a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid which dates back to the 2nd-century AD. It was dedicated by Sallustia and Helpidus to Venus Felix. Its head resembles Faustina the Younger. It is now held at the Pius-Clementine museum ...

, a sculpture of Venus and her son Cupid *

Felix (Hewlett-Packard) The HP 200LX Palmtop PC (F1060A, F1061A, F1216A), also known as project ''Felix'', is a personal digital assistant introduced by Hewlett-Packard in August 1994. It was often called a Palmtop PC, and it was notable that it was, with some mi ...

, a codename for the HP 200LX palmtop PC * ''Felix'' (1921 film), a Norwegian silent drama film * ''Felix'' (1996 film), a Slovene film * Felix Media, film company resident at

Carriageworks Carriageworks is a multi-arts urban cultural precinct located at the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops in Redfern, Sydney, Australia. Carriageworks showcases contemporary art and performing arts, as well as being used for filming, festivals, ...