Felice

Felice is a name that can be used as both a given name, masculine or feminine, and a surname. It is a common name in Italian, where it is equivalent to Felix. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Arts and literature

Film and theatre

*Felice Andreasi (1928–2005), an Italian actor
*Felice Farina (born 1954), an Italian film director
*Felice Jankell, a Swedish actress
* Felice Minotti (1887–1963), an Italian actor
* Felice Orlandi (1925–2003), an Italian-American actor
*Felice Schachter (born 1963), an American actress

Music

*Felice Alessandri (1747–1798), an Italian musician
* Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614), an Italian composer
* Felice Blangini (1781–1841), an Italian composer
* Felice Bryant (1925–2003), an American musician
*Felice Chiusano (1922–1990), an Italian singer
*Felice DeMatteo (1866–1929), an Italian-American composer
*Felice Giardini (1716–1796), an Italian musician
* Felice Lattuada (1882–1962), an Italian composer
* Felice Romani (1788–1865), an Italian librettist, poet, and scholar
*Felice Rosser, an American actor and musician
* Felice Taylor (born 1948), an American singer
*Felice Varesi (1813–1889), a French-Italian singer

Visual art

* Felice Abrami (1872–1919), an Italian painter
*Felice Beato (1932–1909), an Italian-British photographer
*Felice Boscaratti (1721–1807), an Italian painter
*Felice Boselli (1650–1732), an Italian painter
*Felice Cappelletti (1656–1738), an Italian painter
*Felice Carena (1879–1966), an Italian painter
*Felice Casorati (1883–1963), an Italian painter
*Felice Cerruti Bauduc (1818–1896), an Italian painter
*Felice Cervetti (1718–1779), an Italian painter
*Felice Cignani (1660–1724), an Italian painter
*Felice Damiani (1530–1608), an Italian painter
*Felice Feliciano (1433–1479), an Italian calligrapher
* Felice Ficherelli (1605–1660), an Italian painter
*Felice Giani (1758–1823), an Italian painter
* Felice Ludovisi (1917–2012), an Italian painter
*Felice Pazner Malkin (born 1929), an Israeli artist
*Felice Polanzani (c. 1700–after 1771), an Italian engraver
*Felice Quinto (1929–2010), an Italian photographer
*Felice Riccio (1542–1605), an Italian painter
*Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967), an Austrian textile artist
*Felice Schiavoni (1803–1881), an Italian painter
* Felice Scotto (active early 15th century), an Italian painter
* Felice Torelli (1667–1748), an Italian painter
*Felice Varini (born 1952), a Swiss artist
*Felice Giuseppe Vertua (1820–1862), an Italian painter
* Felice Vinelli (c. 1774–1825), an Italian painter

Other

*Felice Arena, an Australian children's author and illustrator
*Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998), an American author and motivational speaker, born Felice Buscaglia
*Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), an Italian politician and author
*Dré Steemans (1954–2009), a Belgian radio and TV host, who used the stage name Felice Damiano
* Felice delle Piane (born 1940), an Italian art historian
* Felice Noordhoff (born 2000), Dutch fashion model

Military and politics

* Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762–1841), a Corsican nobleman and military officer
*Felice Napoleone Canevaro (1838–1926), an Italian admiral and politician
*Felice Casson (born 1953), an Italian politician
*Felice Cavallotti (1842–1898), an Italian politician and author
* Felice Chilanti (1914–1982), an Italian journalist and resistance member
*Felice Cornicola, an 8th-century Venetian statesman
*Felice D. Gaer (born 1946), an American human rights activist
*Felice Guarneri (1882–1955), Italian economist and politician
* Felice Orsini (1819–1858), an Italian revolutionary
*Felice Platone (1896–1962), an Italian lawyer, politician, and resistance member
*Felice Schragenheim (1922–1944), a German Jewish resistance fighter

Religion

* Felice Cavagnis (1841–1906), an Italian canon lawyer and cardinal
*Felice Figliucci (c. 1525–c. 1590), an Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian
*Felice Leonardo (1915–2015), an Italian bishop
*Felice Antonio Monaco (1521–1590), born Felice Peretti di Montalto

Science and technology

*Felice Bisleri (1851–1921), an Italian pharmacist
* Felice Casorati (mathematician) (1835–1890), an Italian mathematician
* Felice Fontana (1730–1805), an Italian physicist
* Felice Frankel, an American science photographer
* Felice Giordano (1825–1892), an Italian engineer and geologist
*Felice Ippolito (1915–1997), an Italian engineer and geologist
* Felice Lieh-Mak (born 1941), a Hong Kong psychiatrist
* Felice Matteucci (1808–1887), an Italian hydraulic engineer

Sports

Association football

*Felice Berardo (1888–1956), an Italian footballer
*Felice Borel (1914–1993), an Italian footballer
*Felice Cavaliere (born 1981), an Italian footballer
*Felice Centofanti (born 1969), an Italian footballer
* Félix Demaría (1912–date of death unknown), an Argentine footballer, also known as Felice
*Felice Evacuo (born 1982), an Italian footballer
*Felice Gasperi (1903–1982), an Italian footballer
* Virgilio Levratto (1904–1968), an Italian footballer, sometimes referred to by his middle name, Felice
*Felice Mancini (born 1965), an Italian footballer and coach
*Felice Mariani (footballer) (born 1918), an Italian footballer
*Felice Mazzu (born 1966), a Belgian football manager
* Felice Natalino (born 1992), an Italian footballer
*Felice Piccolo (born 1983), an Italian footballer
*Felice Prevete (born 1987), an Italian footballer
*Félix Romano (1894–1970), an Argentine footballer, also known as Felice, who played for the French and Italian national teams
* Felice Soldini (1915–1971), Swiss footballer
* Felice Vecchione (born 1991), an Italian-German footballer

Racing

* Felice Benasedo (born 1922), an Italian motorcycle racer
* Felice Bonetto (1903–1953), an Italian racing driver
* Felice Nazzaro (1881–1940), an Italian racing driver
*Felice Tedeschi (born 1962), an Italian racing driver

Other

*Felice Chow (born 1977), a Trinidad and Tobago rower
* Felice Darioli (born 1947), an Italian cross-country skier
* Felice De Nicolo (born 1942), an Italian skier
* Felice Fanetti (1914–1974), an Italian rower
*Felice Gimondi (born 1942), an Italian cyclist
* Felice Herrig (born 1984), an American martial artist
* Felice Mariani (judoka) (born 1954), an Italian judoka
* Felice Mueller (born 1989), an American rower
* Felice Puttini (born 1967), a Swiss cyclist
*Felice Rama, an Italian rugby union coach
* Felice Soldini (born 1915), a Swiss footballer
*Felice Torza (1920–1983), an American golfer

Writers

* Felice Chilanti (1914–1982), an Italian journalist and resistance member
* Felice Newman, an American author and sex educator
* Felice Picano (born 1944), an American writer
*Felice Schwartz (1925–1996), an American feminist writer

Other

* Felice Bauer (1887–1960), a Silesian woman who was engaged to Franz Kafka
* Felice Mario Boano, an Italian automobile coachbuilder
*Felice Colombo (born 1937), an Italian businessman
*Felice Duffy, an American attorney and public speaker
*Felice Lifshitz, an American historian
*Felice della Rovere (c. 1483–1536), an illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II
* Felix Pedro (1858–1910), an Italian immigrant, born Felice Pedroni, who discovered gold in Alaska

Surname

* Felice (surname)

See also

* De Felice
* Félicien
*Felise

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