Alois ( Latinized ''Aloysius'') is an

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form of the name

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. Modern variants include ''Aloïs'' (

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), ''Aloys'' (

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), ''Alois'' ( Czech), ''

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'' (Polish language, Polish), ''Aloísio'' (Portuguese language, Portuguese, Spanish language, Spanish, Italian language, Italian), and ''Alajos'' (Hungarian language, Hungarian).

People called Alois/Aloys

* Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist * Alois Arnegger (1879–1963), Austrian painter * Alois Biach (1849–1918), Austrian physician and medical writer * Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal * Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), Swiss illustrator * Alois Dryák (1872–1932), Czech architect * Alois Eliáš (1890–1942), Czech general and politician * Alois Estermann, senior officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment * Alois Hába, Czech composer * Alois Hitler (1837–1903), born Aloys Schicklgruber; Adolf Hitler's father * Alois Hitler, Jr. (1882–1956), Adolf Hitler's half-brother * Alois Hudal (1885–1963), Rome-based, pro-Nazi bishop of Austrian descent * Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein * Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein * Alois Jirásek (1851–1930), Czech writer * Alois Kayser (1877–1944), German Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar * Alois Kříž (1911–1947), Czechoslovak journalist and Nazi collaborator who was executed * Al Leiter, Alois Leiter (1965-), American former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball * Aloïs Michielsen (born 1942), Belgian businessman * Alois Mock (1934–2017), Austrian politician * Alois Musil (1868–1944), Czech explorer, orientalist and writer * Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland * Aloys Pennarini (1870–1927), tenor opera singer, opera director and film actor * Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), mayor of Saint Louis * Alois P. Swoboda (1873–1938), pioneer of American physical culture * Alois Rašín (1867–1923), Czech economist and politician * Alois Riehl (1844–1924), Austrian philosopher * Alois Senefelder (1771–1834), Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography * Alois Vašátko (1908–1942), Czech fighter pilot * Alois von Reding (1765–1818), Swiss patriot * Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1968) * Alois Švehlík (born 1939), Czech actor * Alois Trancy, fictional character in the Japanese anime Black Butler * Aloïs Catteau (1877–1939), Belgian cyclist * Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893), Austrian historian * Aloys Wach (1892–1940), Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist * Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, 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

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