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:

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

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)