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Loos (surname)

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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:

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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

    • 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
  • Jos Loos
  • 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

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