List of Famous people named Alois
Alois Alzheimer
Aloysius Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
Alois Senefelder
Johann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s.
Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who worked as Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Brunner is held responsible for sending over 100,000 European Jews to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe. He was commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, from which nearly 24,000 people were deported.
Alois Stadlober
Alois Stadlober is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2000. He earned two medals at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and a silver in the 10 km.
Alois Mock
Alois Mock was a politician and member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister, he helped take Austria into the European Union.
Alois Hitler
Alois Hitler Sr. was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and father of Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Alois Schwartz
Alois Schwartz is a German football manager and former player, who last managed Karlsruher SC.
Alois Schloder
Alois Schloder is a retired ice hockey player. He participated at the 1976 Winter Olympics and won a bronze medal. He was disqualified from the 1972 Winter Olympics after failing a doping test.
Alois Musil
Alois Musil was a Moravian theologian, orientalist, explorer and bilingual Czech and German writer.
Alois Auer
Alois Auer was a printer, inventor, and botanical illustrator, most active during the 1840s and 1850s. He produced a number of works in German and other languages, including the first regarding the nature printing process. He was the director of the Austrian State Printing House, which created illustrated volumes of scientific interest and produced many advances in printing technology. His name, in the full title of the hereditary knighthood he was given, is Alois Auer Ritter von Welsbach.