Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to:

People

Ancient Roman cognomen

Africanus Fabius Maximus Africanus Fabius Maximus was a Roman senator. His elder brother was Paullus Fabius Maximus (consul 11 BCE) and his sister was Fabia Paullina, who married Marcus Titius. It is believed that Africanus was named in honour of his famous family ancesto ...

, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC) and an unknown wife *

Cresconius Africanus Cresconius Africanus (Crisconius) was a Latin canon lawyer, of uncertain date and place. He flourished, probably, in the latter half of the 7th century. He was probably a Christian bishop of the African Church. Concordia canonum Cresconius made a ...

, a Latin canon lawyer of uncertain date and place *

Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late second and early third centuries. He is important chiefly because o ...

, an orator in the time of Nero *

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 * Lucius Apuleius ''Africanus'' Madaurensis (c. 124–c. 170 CE), a Latin-language prose writer *

Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, also known as Titus Sextius Africanus, was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century. He served as an ordinary consul in 112 as the coll ...

, a consul in the 2nd century under Trajan * Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd-century Roman legal scholar *

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 African ...

Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late second and early third centuries. He is important chiefly because o ...

, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century *

Junillus Africanus Junillus Africanus (''floruit'' 541–549) was Quaestor of the Sacred Palace ('' quaestor sacri palatii'') in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. He is best known for his work on biblical exegesis, ''Instituta regularia divinae legis''. ...

(fl. 541–549), a Quaestor of the Sacred Palace in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I *

Constantine the African Constantine the African ( la, Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in Ifriqiya and the rest in Italy. He first arrived in Italy in the c ...

i.e. Constantinus Africanus (11th century)

Given name or surname

George Africanus George John Scipio Africanus (c. 1763 – 19 May 1834) was a West African former slave who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham, England. Early years The early life of George Africanus is obscure. Calculating his birth year from his bu ...

(1763—1834), a West African slave, later credited as Nottingham's first black entrepreneur *

Leo Africanus Joannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan, ar, الحسن محمد الوزان ; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusian diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book '' Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica'', later ...

(1488–1554) *

Africanus Horton Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a politic ...

(1835–1883), also known as James Beale, a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone *

Albert Freeman Africanus King Albert Freeman Africanus King (18 January 1841 – 13 December 1914) was an English-born American physician who was pressed into service at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865. He was one of a few physicians who served in both t ...

(1841–1914), American physician

Other uses

* ''Africanus'' (journal), a scientific journal about development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa

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