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Loos (surname)
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
- 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
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
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