Loos (surname)
Appearance
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)[1] [2] while in North Germany the name may be derived from Nikolaus.[3] People with this surname include:
Art
[edit]- 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
- Daniel Friedrich Loos (1735–1819), German medallist, engraver
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
See also
[edit]- Loos for places called Loos
- Loos Memorial near Loos-en-Gohelle in French Flanders
- Loos & Co., American wire and cable manufacturer founded by August Loos
- Van Gend & Loos, Dutch distribution company founded in 1809 by a merger of Jan-Baptist van Gend's and Petrus Josephus Loos's companies
- Ross-Loos Medical Group founded in 1929 by Donald E. Ross and H. Clifford Loos (brother of Anita Loos)