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
[edit]Arts and literature
[edit]Film and theatre
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 (1611–1667), an Italian cleric, Bishop of Martirano
- Pope Sixtus V (1521–1590), born Felice Peretti di Montalto
Science and technology
[edit]- 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
[edit]Association football
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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