Maurus is a Latin given name. It can refer to:

Persons

Saints * Saint Maurus of Parentium (3rd century), the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč *

Saint Maurus Maurus (french: Maur; it, Mauro) was the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia (512–584). He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate, offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young bo ...

(c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia * Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856) *

Saint Maurus of Pécs In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Ortho ...

, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075) Others * (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher * Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare * Sylvester Maurus (1619-1687), Italian Jesuit theologian *

Kuber Kuber, (also Kouber or Kuver), was a Bulgar leader who, according to the ''Miracles of Saint Demetrius'', liberated a mixed Bulgar and Byzantine Christian population in the 670s, whose ancestors had been transferred from the Eastern Roman Empi ...

(Maurus the Kuber), brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of Kubrat Kaghan of Patria Onoguria * Maurus, religious name of secret agent monk Alexander Horn

Other uses

*The inhabitants of Mauretania, ancient kingdom and late Roman province * '' Maurus'', a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies

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