Alois
Alois is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include Aloïs, Aloys, Alois, Alojz, Alojzy, Aloísio, Alajos, and Aloyzas.
People called Alois/Aloys
- Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
- Alois Arnegger, Austrian painter
- Alois Berla, Austrian actor and playwright
- Alois Biach, Austrian physician and medical writer
- Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal
- Alois Carigiet, Swiss illustrator
- Alois Dryák, Czech architect
- Alois Eliáš, Czech general and politician
- Alois Estermann, senior officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment
- Alois Hába, Czech composer, music theorist and teacher
- Alois Hitler, born Aloys Schicklgruber; Adolf Hitler's father
- Alois Hitler, Jr., Adolf Hitler's half-brother
- Alois Hudal, Rome-based, pro-Nazi bishop of Austrian descent
- Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein
- Alois Jirásek, Czech writer
- Alois Kayser, German Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar
- Alois Kříž, Czechoslovak journalist and Nazi collaborator who was executed
- Alois Leiter, American former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Aloïs Michielsen, Belgian businessman
- Alois Mock, Austrian politician
- Alois Musil, Czech explorer, orientalist and writer
- Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland
- Aloys Pennarini, tenor opera singer, opera director and film actor
- Aloys P. Kaufmann, mayor of Saint Louis
- Alois P. Swoboda, pioneer of American physical culture
- Alois Rainer, German politician
- Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician
- Alois Riehl, Austrian philosopher
- Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography
- Alois Taux, German conductor and composer, prominent in Salzburg, Austria
- Alois Vašátko, Czech fighter pilot
- Alois von Reding, Swiss patriot
- Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- Alois Švehlík, Czech actor
- Alois Trancy, fictional character in the Japanese anime Black Butler
- Aloïs Catteau, Belgian cyclist
- Aloys Sprenger, Austrian historian
- Aloys Wach, Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist
- Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, Austrian actor and American politician
- Brother Alois, Prior of the Taizé community
- Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
Other uses
- Aloys (film), a 2016 Swiss film