Loos (surname) explained

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)http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Loos http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Loos&nfd_naam=Loos&info=analyse%20en%20verklaring&operator=eq&taal= while in North Germany the name may be derived from Nikolaus.http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=loos 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
• 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
• 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)