Apollinaris may refer to:

Personal name

* Apollinaris, a correspondent of

Pliny the Younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate ...

(61–c. 112) * Apollinaris of Ravenna (flourished 1st or 2nd century), martyr and first bishop of Ravenna, the most prominent of several saints called Apollinaris *

Apollinarius (astrologer) Apollinarius was a first or second century AD astrologer who wrote in Greek. He is a source for Vettius Valens and Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as ...

, a first or second century AD astrologer *

Apollinaris Claudius Saint Apollinaris Claudius, otherwise Apollinaris of Hierapolis or Apollinaris the Apologist, was a Christian leader and writer of the 2nd century. Life He was Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia and became famous for his polemical treatises again ...

, Apollinaris of Hierapolis or Apollinaris the Apologist (flourished 2nd century), bishop of Hierapolis and saint *

Apollinaris (the Elder) Apollinaris the Elder or Apollinarius ( grc, Ἀπολινάριος), was a Christian grammarian of the 4th century, first in Berytus (now Beirut) in Phoenicia, then in Laodicea in Syria. He was the father of Apollinaris of Laodicea. He became a ...

(flourished 4th century), Christian grammarian * Apollinaris of Laodicea or the Younger, also known as Apollinarius of Laodicea (died 390), bishop of Laodicea in Syria, author of the heresy of Apollinarism *

Apollinaris Syncletica Apollinaris Syncletica () was a saint and hermit of the 5th century, venerated in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Her story is most likely apocryphal and "turns on the familiar theme of a girl putting on male attire and living ...

, also known as Dorotheus (5th century), female desert ascetic, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint *

Apollinaris of Clermont Apollinaris (died 515) was a count of Auvergne who led a auvergnat army for the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouillé, and was bishop of Clermont for four months before his death. Life Apollinaris was the son of the aristocrat and poet Sidonius A ...

(died 515), son of Sidonius Apollinaris *

Apollinarius (governor) Apollinarius was a Byzantine governor of the Balearic Islands, appointed in 534. The main source about him is Procopius.Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), p. 100 Biography Apollinarius was a native of the Italian Peninsula, but apparently settle ...

, Byzantine governor of the Balearic Islands (flourished 530s) *

Patriarch Apollinarius of Alexandria Apollinarius served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 551 and 569. Before his appointment by Justinian I Justinian I (; la, Iustinianus, ; grc-gre, Ἰουστινιανός ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, wa ...

(died 569), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria *

Apollinaris of Valence Saint Apollinaris of Valence (also known as Aplonay) (453–520), born in Vienne, France, was bishop of Valence, France, at the time of the irruption of the barbarians. Valence, which was the central see of the recently founded Kingdom of the ...

(453–520), bishop of Valence and saint * Saint Apollinaris of Monte Cassino (died 827 or 828), abbot of Monte Cassino * Saint Apollinaris of Sarsina (flourished 1158),

bishop of Sarsina The Catholic diocese of Sarsina (''Sassina, Saxena, Bobium'') was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, seated in Sarsina, in the province of Forlì, some 32 km south-southwest of Cesena. The diocese was ...

* Blessed

Apollinaris Franco Apollinaris may refer to: Personal name * Apollinaris, a correspondent of Pliny the Younger (61–c. 112) * Apollinaris of Ravenna (flourished 1st or 2nd century), martyr and first bishop of Ravenna, the most prominent of several saints called ...

(died 1622), Franciscan friar, martyred in Japan, see list of saints and blesseds in the 17th century

Ancient Rome

* Sidonius Apollinaris (died before 490), Gallo-Roman writer, bishop and saint *

Sulpicius Apollinaris Sulpicius Apollinaris was a learned grammarian of Carthage who flourished in the 2nd century AD. He taught Pertinax, himself a teacher of grammar before he was emperor, and Aulus Gellius, who speaks of him in the highest terms. He is the reputed aut ...

, 2nd century Latin grammarian from Carthage * Legio XV Apollinaris, a Roman legion

Other uses

* Apollinaris (water), a German effervescent mineral water named after Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna *

Lily of the valley Lily of the valley (''Convallaria majalis'' (), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native throughout the cool temperate No ...

of ''Convallaria majalis'', flowering plant also historically known as Apollonaris

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Ancient Rome

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