Alois (
Latinized ''Aloysius'') is an
Old Occitan
Old Occitan ( oc, occitan ancian, label=Occitan language, Modern Occitan, ca, occità antic), also called Old Provençal, was the earliest form of the Occitano-Romance languages, as attested in writings dating from the eighth through the fourteen ...
form of the name
Louis. Modern variants include ''Aloïs'' (
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
), ''Aloys'' (
German), ''Alois'' (
Czech), ''
Alojz'' (
Slovak,
Slovenian), ''
Alojzy'' (
Polish), ''
Aloísio Aloisio or Aloísio is a Romance masculine given name, arising via an Old Occitan form '' Aloys'' from Louis.
* Aloisio da Milano, also known as Aloisio da Carezano, Aleviz Milanets and Aleviz Fryazin, 15th/16th century Italian architect
* Aloisio ...
'' (
Portuguese,
Spanish,
Italian), and ''
Alajos'' (
Hungarian).
People called Alois/Aloys
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Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
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Alois Arnegger (1879–1963), Austrian painter
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Alois Biach (1849–1918), Austrian physician and medical writer
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Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal
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Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), Swiss illustrator
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Alois Dryák (1872–1932), Czech architect
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Alois Eliáš (1890–1942), Czech general and politician
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Alois Estermann, senior officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment
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Alois Hába, Czech composer
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Alois Hitler (1837–1903), born Aloys Schicklgruber; Adolf Hitler's father
* Alois Hitler, Jr. (1882–1956), Adolf Hitler's half-brother
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Alois Hudal (1885–1963), Rome-based, pro-Nazi bishop of Austrian descent
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Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein
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Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein
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Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek () (23 August 1851, Hronov, Kingdom of Bohemia – 12 March 1930, Prague) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in ...
(1851–1930), Czech writer
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Alois Kayser
Alois Kayser (March 29, 1877 in Lupstein, Alsace – October 21, 1944 in Chuuk State, Chuuk) was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan language dictionar ...
(1877–1944), German Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar
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Alois Kříž (1911–1947), Czechoslovak journalist and Nazi collaborator who was executed
*
Alois Leiter (1965-), American former left-handed
starting pitcher
In baseball (hardball or softball), a starting pitcher or starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they throw the first pitch to the opponent's first batter of a game. Starting pit ...
in
Major League Baseball
*
Aloïs Michielsen
Aloïs Michielsen (born Turnhout, Belgium, 6 January 1942) is a Belgian businessman. He obtained a master's degree as a civil engineer (chemistry) and a degree in applied economic sciences at the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He obt ...
(born 1942), Belgian businessman
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Alois Mock (1934–2017), Austrian politician
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Alois Musil (1868–1944), Czech explorer, orientalist and writer
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Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland
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Aloys Pennarini (1870–1927), tenor opera singer, opera director and film actor
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Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), mayor of Saint Louis
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Alois P. Swoboda (1873–1938), pioneer of American physical culture
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Alois Rašín
Alois Rašín (18 October 1867 in Nechanice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary – 18 February 1923 in Prague, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech and Czechoslovakian politician, economist, one of the founders of Czechoslovakia and first Ministry for Fin ...
(1867–1923), Czech economist and politician
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Alois Riehl
Alois Adolf Riehl (; 27 April 1844 – 21 November 1924) was an Austrian neo-Kantian philosopher. He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). He was the brother of .
Biography
Riehl studied at Vienna, Munich, Innsbruck ...
(1844–1924), Austrian philosopher
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Alois Senefelder (1771–1834), Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography
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Alois Vašátko
Alois Vašátko DFC (25 August 1908 – 23 June 1942) was a Czechoslovak artillery officer who became an air force pilot. In the Second World War he was a fighter ace, first in the French Air Force in the Battle of France and then in the Ro ...
(1908–1942), Czech fighter pilot
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Alois von Reding (1765–1818), Swiss patriot
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Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1968)
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Alois Švehlík
Alois Švehlík (born 30 July 1939) is a Czech actor and theatre pedagogue.
Life and career
Švehlík was born in Pardubice, then part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, in 1939. Together with his older brother Jaroslav, he became invo ...
(born 1939), Czech actor
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Alois Trancy, fictional character in the Japanese anime Black Butler
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Aloïs Catteau (1877–1939), Belgian cyclist
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Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893), Austrian historian
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Aloys Wach (1892–1940), Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' ...
, Austrian actor and American politician
* Brother Alois (born 1954), Prior of the Taizé community
* Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
Other uses
*Aloys (film), ''Aloys'' (film), a 2016 Swiss film
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Masculine given names
German masculine given names
Czech masculine given names