Loos (surname)

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Loos is a

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

Sports

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)