Aloysius

Aloysius is a given name.

Etymology
It is a Latinisation of the names Alois, Louis, Lewis, Luis, Luigi, Ludwig, and other cognates (traditionally in Medieval Latin as Ludovicus or Chlodovechus), ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdawīgą ("famous battle"). In the US, the name is rare, with fewer than 0.001% of babies receiving the name since the 1940s. Most of those were Roman Catholics.

People

 * Aloysius Ambrozic (1930–2011), Roman Catholic cardinal
 * Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), French Romantic poet, playwright, and journalist
 * Aloysius Foster (born 1943), American jazz drummer
 * Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591), Italian aristocrat and saint
 * Aloysius John Jordan (1906–1957), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s
 * Aloysius Leo Knott (1829– 1918), American politician, lawyer and educator
 * Aloysius Lilius (1510–1576), Italian doctor, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist
 * Aloysius Pang (1990–2019), Singaporean actor
 * Aloysius Pieris (born 1934), Sri Lankan Sinhala Jesuit priest
 * Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1941), Roman Catholic priest
 * Aloysius Stepinac (1898–1960), Yugoslav Croat prelate
 * Aloysius Szymanski (1902–1956), given name for Baseball Hall of Famer Al Simmons
 * Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal (born 1951), given name for Dutch football manager Louis van Gaal
 * Aloysius John Wycisło (1908–2005), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay

Fictional characters

 * Alo Creevey, in the UK television series Skins
 * Aloysius T. McKeever, hobo squatter in the 1947 Christmas film It Happened on Fifth Avenue
 * Aloysius O'Hare, villain of the 2012 film The Lorax
 * Aloysius Parker, the chauffeur of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds
 * Aloysius Pendergast, protagonist of several novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
 * Aloysius K. Randall, protagonist in the war film Wake Island (film)
 * Aloysius Samberly, a season 2 recurring character on the television series Agent Carter
 * Aloysius Snuffleupagus (Mr. Snuffleupagus), on Sesame Street
 * Aloysius (teddy bear), in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
 * Sister Aloysius, in the play Doubt: A Parable and the film adaptation Doubt
 * Aloysius, an anthropomorphic wolf in Highlights magazine features

Education

 * St Aloysius' College