Loos (surname)

Loos is a Dutch and Low German surname. It can be of toponymic, patronymic or descriptive origin. In the Low Countries, Lo/Loos was a short form of Lodewijk (akin to Louis) while in North Germany the name may be derived from Nikolaus. People with this surname include:

Art

 * Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect
 * Anita Loos (1888–1981), American screen writer and author
 * Anna Loos (born 1970), German actress and singer
 * Charles Loos (born 1951), Belgian jazz pianist and composer
 * Friedrich Loos (1797–1890), Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer
 * Lina Loos (1882–1950), Austrian actress and writer
 * Mary Loos (1910–2004), American actress
 * Theodor Loos (1883–1954), German actor

Sports

 * Dave Loos (born 1947), American basketball coach and athletic director
 * Eddie Loos (1893–1950), American golfer
 * Georg Loos (1943–2016), German racing driver
 * Josef Loos (1888–1955), Czech ice hockey player
 * Ludo Loos (1955–2019), Belgian road bicycle racer
 * Michelle Loos, New Zealand footballer
 * Pete Loos (1878–1956), American baseball pitcher
 * Vilém Loos (1895–1942), Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
 * Walter Loos (1923–2004), Luftwaffe fighter ace

Other

 * Bernhard Loos (born 1955), German politician
 * Cornelius Loos (1546–1595), Dutch Catholic priest and theologian
 * Cornelius Loos (1686–1738), Swedish military engineer and explorer
 * François Loos (born 1953), French diplomat
 * Gerhard Loos (1916–1944), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
 * Jan Frans Loos (1799–1871), Belgian liberal politician
 * John L. Loos (1918–2011), American historian
 * Jos Loos, commissioner of the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association
 * Kurt Loos (1859–1933), Bohemian forester and ornithologist
 * R. Beers Loos (1860–1944), American journalist and newspaper publisher
 * Rebecca Loos (born 1977), Dutch-Spanish model and media personality
 * Wilhelm Loos (1911–1988), German World War II army officer
 * Wolfgang Loos (born 1955), German Luftwaffe fighter ace