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Aloysius (/ˌæloʊˈɪʃəs/ AL-oh-ISH-əs) 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 Roman Catholics.^[1]

Aloysius Ambrozic (1930–2011), Roman Catholic cardinal
Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), French Romantic poet, playwright, and journalist
Aloysius Foster (born 1943), American jazz drummer
Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591), Italian aristocrat and saint
Aloysius John Jordan (1906–1957), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s
Aloysius Leo Knott (1829– 1918), American politician, lawyer and educator
Aloysius Lilius (1510–1576), Italian doctor, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist
Aloysius Pang (1990–2019), Singaporean actor
Aloysius Pieris (born 1934), Sri Lankan Sinhala Jesuit priest
Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1941), Roman Catholic priest
Aloysius Stepinac (1898–1960), Yugoslav Croat prelate
Aloysius Szymanski (1902–1956), given name for Baseball Hall of Famer Al Simmons
Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal (born 1951), given name for Dutch football manager Louis van Gaal
Aloysius John Wycisło (1908–2005), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay

Alo Creevey, in the UK television series Skins
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 (film)
Aloysius Samberly, a season 2 recurring character on the television series Agent Carter
Aloysius Snuffleupagus (Mr. Snuffleupagus), on Sesame Street
Aloysius (teddy bear), 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