Alois

Alois

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

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

People called Alois/Aloys

• Alois I, Prince of Liechtenstein
• Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein
• Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (born 1968)
• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
• Alois Arnegger (1879–1963), Austrian painter
• Brother Alois (born 1954), Prior of the Taizé community
• Alois Brunner (1912–?), Austrian Nazi war criminal
• Alois Buttinger, Austrian socialist
• 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 Hába, a 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 Jirásek (1851–1930), Czech writer
• Aloys P. Kaufmann (1902–1984), mayor of Saint Louis
• Alois Kayser (1877–1944), German Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar
• Aloïs Michielsen (born 1942), Belgian businessman
• Alois Mock (born 1934), 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
• Alois Rašín (1867–1923), Czech economist and politician
• Alois von Reding (1765–1818), Swiss patriot
• Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
• Alois Riehl (1844–1924), Austrian philosopher
• Alois Senefelder (1771–1834), Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography
• Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, an Austrian actor and American politician
• Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893), Austrian historian
• Alois Švehlík (born 1939), Czech actor
• Alois P. Swoboda (1873–1938), pioneer of American physical culture
• Alois Vašátko (1908–1942), Czech fighter pilot
• Aloys Wach (1892–1940), Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist

Other uses

• Aloys (film), a 2016 Swiss film