Aloysius


Aloysius is a given name.

Etymology

It is a Latinisation of the names Alois, Louis, Lewis, Luis, Luigi, Ludwig, and other cognates, ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdawīgą. 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, Indonesian politician
  • Aloysius Ambrozic, Roman Catholic cardinal
  • Aloysius Bertrand, French Romantic poet, playwright, and journalist
  • Tad Dorgan, Thomas Aloysius Tad Dorgan, American writer,, cartoonist
  • Aloysius Foster, American jazz drummer
  • Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian aristocrat and saint
  • Aloysius John Jordan, English rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s
  • Aloysius Leo Knott, American politician, lawyer and educator
  • Aloysius Lilius, Italian doctor, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist
  • Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor
  • Aloysius Pieris, Sri Lankan Sinhala Jesuit priest
  • Aloysius Schmitt, Roman Catholic priest
  • Aloysius Stepinac, Yugoslav Croat prelate
  • Aloysius Szymanski, given name for Baseball Hall of Famer Al Simmons
  • Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal, given name for Dutch football manager Louis van Gaal
  • Aloysius John Wycisło, 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 “Al” Binewksi, carnival ringmaster and father of the protagonist in Geek Love.
  • 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
  • Aloysius Samberly, a season 2 recurring character on the television series Agent Carter
  • Aloysius Snuffleupagus, on Sesame Street
  • Aloysius, 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
  • Aloysius Devandander Abercrombie, the self-described protagonist of the 1993 Primus song, “My Name is Mud”
  • Doctor Aloysius James Animo, a mad scientist obsessed with genetic experiments on animals from the american animated series “Ben 10”
  • Aloysius, the older cousin of Elias in “Elias, or The struggle with the nightingales”, by Maurice Gilliams
  • Aloysius, the taxidermised cat belonging to Rhoda/Yoda in series 5, episode 6 of Brassic
  • Doctor Hunter Aloysius Percy, known as Hap in the series The OA
  • Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock; Tony Hancock's fictional radio Persona

    Education

  • St Aloysius' College