Septimus or Septimius may refer to:

Romans

People in

Ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

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Septimus (praenomen) Septimus () is a Latin ''praenomen'', or personal name. It was never particularly common at Rome. The name is the root for the patronymic '' Septimia gens''. The feminine form is ''Septima''. The name was not regularly abbreviated. The praenomen S ...

, a praenomen or Roman personal name *

Septimia gens The gens Septimia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. The gens first appears in history towards the close of the Republic, and they did not achieve much importance until the latter half of the second century, when Lucius Septimius Severu ...

, an ancient Roman family * Lucius Septimius, one of the assassins of Pompey the Great (d. 48 BC). *

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; ; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through cursus honorum, the ...

, Roman general and emperor from AD 193 to 211 * L. Septimius Bassianus, better known as Caracalla, the elder son of Septimius Severus, emperor from 198 to 217 * P. Septimius Geta, the younger son of Septimius Severus, emperor from 209 to 211 *

Septimius (usurper) Septimius (or Septiminus) was a Roman usurper who was proclaimed Emperor in either 271 or 272 AD, under the reign of Aurelian. History Septimius declared himself emperor in either 271 or 272 AD, in Dalmatia, during the reign of Aurelian Aur ...

, a usurper proclaimed emperor in 271 during the reign of Aurelian * St Septimus (d. 303), martyred with SS Felix, Januarius, Fortunatus, and Audactus * Septimius Acindynus, consul in 340 * Lucius Septimius (Roman governor), 4th century governor of Britannia Prima * Q. Septimius Florens Tertullianus (c. 155– c. 240 AD), better known as Tertullian, theologian * St

Septimius of Iesi Saint Septimius of Iesi () (d. 307) was the first Bishop of Iesi, a martyr, and a saint. Septimius was born in what is now Germany, and after an education in the liberal arts, began a military career. After he converted to Christianity, he parte ...

(died 307), bishop and saint

Palmyrenes

People from the

Palmyrene Empire The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century. Named after its capital city, Palmyra, it encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt ...

: * Septimius Odaenathus, first Palmyrene king (d. 267). *

Septimius Antiochus Septimius Antiochus (Greek: Άντίοχος; died after 273) was a Roman usurper in Syria during the 3rd century. In 272 AD, Emperor Aurelian had defeated the breakaway Kingdom of Palmyra; its king, Vaballathus, and his mother, Zenobia, were in ...

, last Palmyrene emperor (re. 273). * Septimius Worod, Palmyrene viceroy (fl. 266). * Septimius Zabdas, commander of the Palmyrene armies (d. 272).

People with the given name

* Septimus Aspinall (1907–1976), English rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s * Septimus Atterbury (1880–1964), English football player * Septimus Francom (1882–1965), British long-distance runner * Septimus J. Hanna, American Civil War veteran and a judge in the Old West * Septimus Holmes Godson (1799–1877), British barrister * Septimus Kaikai, Sierra Leonean politician and broadcaster * Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916), Australian rower, musician, composer * Septimus Kinneir (1871–1928), English cricketer * Sep Lambert, Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert, Irish cricketer * Septimus Norris, (1818–1862) American mechanical engineer and steam locomotive designer * Septimus Orion, a music recording project * Septimus Ridsdale (1840–1884), English first-class cricketer * Septimus Robinson (1710–1765), British Army officer * John Septimus Roe, first Surveyor-General of Western Australia * Septimus Rutherford (1907–1975), English footballer * Septimus Edwin Scott, (1879–1965), English painter *

Septimus Winner Septimus Winner (May 11, 1827 – November 22, 1905) was an American songwriter of the 19th century. He used his own name, and also the pseudonyms Alice Hawthorne, Percy Guyer, Mark Mason, Apsley Street, and Paul Stenton. He was also a teacher ...

, (1827-1902), 19th-century American

songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

* Septimus Warwick (1881–1953), British architect

Fictional people

*Septim, a number of characters and entities in ''

The Elder Scrolls ''The Elder Scrolls'' is a series of action role-playing games, action role-playing video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The series focuses on Nonlinear gameplay, free-form gameplay in an ...

'' game series *'' Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine'', a children's book *''

Septimus Heap ''Septimus Heap'' is a series of children's fantasy novels featuring a Septimus Heap (character), protagonist of the same name; the series is written by English author Angie Sage. It features seven novels, entitled ''Magyk'', ''Flyte'', ''Physi ...

'', a series of books by Angie Sage, as well as the main character in the series *Septimus Warren Smith, a character in Virginia Woolf's novel ''

Mrs Dalloway ''Mrs Dalloway'' is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. The working title of ''Mrs Dalloway'' was ''The Hours ...

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Doctor Septimus Pretorius Doctor Septimus Pretorius is a fictional character who appears in the Universal film ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935) as the main antagonist. He is played by British stage and film actor Ernest Thesiger. Some sources claim he was originally to ha ...

, a fictional character in the 1935 film ''Bride of Frankenstein'' * Septimus (''Stardust''), a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's novel ''Stardust'' *Septimus Hodge of Tom Stoppard's play '' Arcadia'' * Septimus Harding, the eponymous protagonist of Anthony Trollope's ''The Warden'' * Septimus Weasley, Ron Weasley's paternal grandfather in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series *Septimus Dix, the title character of the novel ''Septimus'', by William John Locke

Others

* Septimus (horse) * *

Septimania Septimania is a historical region in modern-day southern France. It referred to the western part of the Roman province of '' Gallia Narbonensis'' that passed to the control of the Visigoths in 462, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theod ...

, historical region in modern-day France {{disambiguation, given name, hn