Loos (surname)
Loos is a Dutch and Low German surname. It cn 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:
- In 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
- Mary Loos (1910-2004), American actress
- Theodor Loos (1883-1954), German actor
- In sports
- Dave Loos (born 1947), American basketball coach and athletic director
- fr:Georg Loos (born 1943), German racing driver
- Josef Loos (1888–1955), Czech ice hockey player
- Ludo Loos (born 1955), 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 (born 1955), German footballer
- Other
- 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
- 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 (1923–2004), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
See also
- 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)
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