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) while in North Germany the name may be derived from Nikolaus. Notable people with this surname include:

Arts

• Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian-Czech architect
• Anita Loos (1888–1981), American screenwriter 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

• Dave Loos (born 1947), American basketball coach and athletic director
• Eddie Loos (1893–1950), American golfer
• Ludo Loos (1955–2019), Belgian road bicycle racer
• Michelle Loos, New Zealand footballer
• Miloslav Loos (1914–2010), Czech cyclist
• Pete Loos (1878–1956), American baseball pitcher
• Valentin Loos (1895–1942), Czech ice hockey player

Other

• Bernhard Loos (born 1955), German politician
• Cornelius Loos (1546–1595), Dutch Catholic priest and theologian
• 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, Luxembourgish scouting leader
• Kurt Loos (1859–1933), German forester and ornithologist
• R. Beers Loos (1860–1944), American journalist and newspaper publisher
• Rebecca Loos (born 1977), Dutch-Spanish model and media personality
• Walter Loos (1923–2004), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
• Wilhelm Loos (1911–1988), German World War II army officer
• Wolfgang Loos (born 1955), German Luftwaffe fighter ace

See also

• Loos (disambiguation)