Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to:
People
Ancient Roman cognomen
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Africanus Fabius Maximus, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC) and an unknown wife
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Cresconius Africanus, a Latin canon lawyer of uncertain date and place
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Julius Africanus, an orator in the time of Nero
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Titus Sextius Africanus
Titus Sextius Africanus was a Roman senator who was deterred by Agrippina the Younger from marrying Junia Silana. He served as a suffect consul in 59 AD. In 62 AD, he took the census in the provinces of Gaul, together with Quintus Volusius Satu ...
, a censor of Gaul in the 1st century
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Lucius Apuleius ''Africanus'' Madaurensis (c. 124–c. 170 CE), a Latin-language prose writer
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Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, a consul in the 2nd century under Trajan
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Sextus Caecilius Africanus
Sextus Caecilius Africanus (died ca. 169/175) was an ancient Roman jurist and a pupil of Salvius Julianus.
Only one quote ( Dig. 30,39 pr.) remains of his '' Epistulae'' of at least twenty books. Excerpts of his '' Quaestiones'', a collection of ...
, a 2nd-century Roman legal scholar
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Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
Scipio Africanus was a Roman general who defeated his Carthaginian counterpart Hannibal.
The name may also refer to:
* Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio Africanus Aemilianus) (185-129 BC), adoptive grandson of the original Scipio Africanus
* George Afric ...
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Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century
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Junillus Africanus (fl. 541–549), a Quaestor of the Sacred Palace in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I
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Constantine the African i.e. Constantinus Africanus (11th century)
Given name or surname
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George Africanus (1763—1834), a West African slave, later credited as Nottingham's first black entrepreneur
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Leo Africanus (1488–1554)
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Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
Scipio Africanus was a Roman general who defeated his Carthaginian counterpart Hannibal.
The name may also refer to:
* Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio Africanus Aemilianus) (185-129 BC), adoptive grandson of the original Scipio Africanus
* George Afric ...
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Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
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Albert Freeman Africanus King (1841–1914), American physician
Other uses
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''Africanus'' (journal), a scientific journal about development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa
See also
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Australopithecus africanus
''Australopithecus africanus'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. The species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfonte ...
, an extinct species of australopithecine
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Africana (disambiguation)
Africana may refer to:
In arts and entertainment Music
* ''Africana'', album by Chaino
* ''Africana'', album by Teresa De Sio
* "Africana", song by Romanian singer Delia Matache
Publications
* ''Encyclopedia Africana'' (1999), a compendium of ...
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Africanae (disambiguation)
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Africanis
The Africanis is a dog landrace found across southern Africa.
Description
As is typical with landraces, there are several regional variations, believed to be the result of isolation and, to a limited degree, deliberate breeding. Some modern w ...
, a group of South African dogs not recognised as a breed
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Africanum
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plan ...
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