Fidelis

Fidelis is a male first name. He finds as a religious name and pseudonym use. Mostly it occurs as a family name. He comes from Latin and means " fidelity ". Name day is the 24th April following the death of Fidelis of Sigmaringen.

Variants

• Fidel (Spanish, even German )
• Fidele (French)
• Fedele ( Italian)

First name

• Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (1765-1815), German physician
• Fidelis Bentele (1905-1987), German sculptor
• Fidelis Bentele (1830-1901), German Tier, histories and church painter
• Fidelis Butsch (1805-1879), bookseller and bibliophile expert
• Fidelis Dehm (1825-1883) was Franziskanerminorit and Catholic priest, 1877-1880 Apostolic Visitor in Romania
• Fidelis Graf (1827-1901), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
• Heinrich Fidelis Müller (1837-1905), German priest and composer
• Fidelis Rakotonarivo SJ ( born 1956 ), Malagasy Jesuit and Bishop of Ambositra in Madagascar
• Fidelis Ruppert OSB ( b. 1938 ), a Benedictine monk of the Abbey and Altabt Muensterschwarzach am Main in Lower Franconia
• José Maria dos Santos Fidélis (1944-2012), Brazilian national football team ( Bangu AC, CR Vasco da Gama )
• Fidelis Scheu (1780-1830), German physician and Bohemian balneologist
• Fidelis Schönlaub (1805-1883), sculptor

Family name

• Chinenye Fidelis (* 1993), Nigerian weightlifter

Pseudonym

Fidelis is found as a pseudonym used among others by

• Felix Boenheim (1890-1960), a German physician, politician, historian and author
• Agnes Maule Machar (1837 -1927), a Canadian social reformer, journalist and writer
• Popert Hermann (1871-1932), a German lawyer, judge and writer

Order Name

Is known carrier of the religious name Fidelis

• Mark Roy or Rey (1578-1622), a born in Sigmaringen philosopher and jurist who in the Capuchin Order the religious name Fidelis assumed after his admission and died as a Counter-Reformation missionary in Switzerland; in 1746 he was canonized as a martyr by the Catholic Church as Fidelis of Sigmaringen.