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
.
People
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Aloysius (born 1963), Indonesian politician
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Aloysius Ambrozic (1930–2011), Roman Catholic cardinal
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Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), French Romantic poet, playwright, and journalist
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Tad Dorgan (1877 –1929), Thomas Aloysius Tad Dorgan, American writer,, cartoonist
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Al Foster (1943–2025), American jazz drummer
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Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591), Italian aristocrat and saint
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Aloysius John Jordan (1906–1957), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s
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Aloysius Leo Knott (1829– 1918), American politician, lawyer and educator
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Aloysius Lilius (1510–1576), Italian doctor, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist
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Aloysius Pang (1990–2019), Singaporean actor
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Aloysius Pieris (born 1934), Sri Lankan Sinhala Jesuit priest
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Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1941), Roman Catholic priest
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Aloysius Stepinac (1898–1960), Yugoslav Croat prelate
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Al Simmons (1902–1956), given name for Baseball Hall of Famer Al Simmons
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Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal (born 1951), given name for Dutch football manager Louis van Gaal
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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
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Alo Creevey, in the UK television series Skins
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Aloysius “Al” Binewksi, carnival ringmaster and father of the protagonist in Geek Love.
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Aloysius T. McKeever, hobo squatter in the 1947 Christmas film It Happened on Fifth Avenue
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Aloysius O'Hare, villain of the 2012 film The Lorax
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Aloysius Parker, the chauffeur of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds
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Aloysius Pendergast, protagonist of several novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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Aloysius K. Randall, protagonist in the war film Wake Island (film)
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Aloysius Samberly, a season 2 recurring character on the television series Agent Carter
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Aloysius Snuffleupagus (Mr. Snuffleupagus), on Sesame Street
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Aloysius (teddy bear), in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
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Sister Aloysius, in the play and the film adaptation Doubt
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Aloysius, an anthropomorphic wolf in Highlights magazine features
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Aloysius Devandander Abercrombie, the self-described protagonist of the 1993 Primus song, “My Name is Mud”
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Doctor Aloysius James Animo, a mad scientist obsessed with genetic experiments on animals from the american animated series “Ben 10”
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Aloysius, the older cousin of Elias in “Elias, or The struggle with the nightingales”, by Maurice Gilliams
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Aloysius, the taxidermised cat belonging to Rhoda/Yoda in series 5, episode 6 ("Caravan of Courage") of Brassic
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Doctor Hunter Aloysius Percy, known as Hap in the series The OA
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Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock; Tony Hancock's fictional radio Persona
Education
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