Alois

Alois

Pronunciation	German: [ˈaːloˌis, alɔʏs]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Occitan; German, French, Czech
Other names
See also	Aloysius, Alajos, Aloísio, Alojz, Clovis, Louis

Alois (Latinized Aloysius) is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include Aloys (German), Alois (Czech, German), Aloïs (French), Alajos (Hungarian), Aloísio (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Alojz (Slovak, Slovenian), and Alojzy (Polish).

People called Alois/Aloys

• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
• Alois Arnegger (1879–1963), Austrian painter
• Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal
• Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), Swiss illustrator
• Aloïs Catteau (1877–1939), Belgian cyclist
• 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
• Alois I, Prince of Liechtenstein
• Alois 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
• 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
• 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 Švehlík (born 1939), Czech actor
• Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1968)
• Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), mayor of Saint Louis
• Aloys Pennarini (1870–1927), tenor opera singer, opera director and film actor
• Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893), Austrian historian
• Alois Trancy, fictional character in the Japanese anime Black Butler
• 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

• Aloys (film), a 2016 Swiss film