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 (1611–1667), an Italian cleric, Bishop of Martirano
• Pope Sixtus V (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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