Ananias may refer to:

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* Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III * Ananias of Adiabene ( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I *

Ananias son of Nedebeus Ananias son of Nedebeus (Hebrew: חנניה בן נדבאי ''Ḥananyá ben Nadváy'' "…(son of) the philanthropist") was a high priest who, according to the Acts of the Apostles, presided during the trials of the apostle Paul at Jerusalem ( Ac ...

, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea *

Ananias and Sapphira Ananias (; he, חָנַנְיָהּ, Chānanyah) and his wife Sapphira (; he, סָפִירַה, Ṣafīrah) were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem. T ...

, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God * Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul *

Ananias III Ananias may refer to: People Mononyms * Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III * Ananias of Adiabene ( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I * Ananias son of Nedebeus, first cent ...

, a saint in the 3rd century *

Ananias (Persian) Ananias may refer to: People Mononyms * Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III * Ananias of Adiabene ( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I * Ananias son of Nedebeus, first cent ...

, priest and fellow martyr of

Shemon Bar Sabbae Mar Shimun Bar Sabbae ( syc, ܡܪܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܒܪܨܒܥܐ, died Good Friday, 345) was Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, from Persia, the ''de facto'' head of the Church of the East, until his death. He was bishop during the persecutions of King S ...

(died 345) *

Ananias of Shirak Anania Shirakatsi ( hy, Անանիա Շիրակացի, ''Anania Širakac’i'', anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronol ...

or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century *

Ananias I of Armenia Catholicos Ananias I, also known as Anania Mokatsi, was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 949 and 968. His predecessor Yeghishe had been deposed as Catholicos and by church regulations no one could be elected during his lifet ...

(died 968) *

Ananias (Jafaridze) Ananias (Georgian ანანია) (Japaridze Tenghiz Anatolievich, born August 20, 1949, Tkibuli, Georgia) is the Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox Church. He is a Candidate of Historical Sciences (un ...

(born 1949), Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox Church * Ananias (footballer) (1989-2016), Brazilian footballer

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* Frans Ananias (born 1972), Namibian retired footballer

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* Ananias Diokno (1860-1922), Leader of the Filipino Visayan forces against the US during the Philippine–American War; grandfather of Jose Diokno * Ananias Dare ( 1560–1587), husband of Eleanor White and father of Virginia Dare, whose birth was the first to English parents in North America * Ananias Davisson (1780–1857), American singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks * Ananías Maidana (1923–2010), teacher and politician in Paraguay

Other uses

* ''Ananias'' (gastropod), an extinct genus in family Eotomariidae

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