Varus may refer to: * Var River or Varus, a river in France *

Stura di Lanzo Stura di Lanzo ( la, Varus) is a long river in north-western Italy (Piedmont), in the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is formed from several tributaries near Lanzo Torinese. It flows into the river Po in Turin. Toponymy The name Stura has C ...

or Varus, a river in Italy * Varus deformity, a medical term for the inward angulation of the distal segment of a bone or joint **

Coxa vara Coxa vara is a deformity of the hip, whereby the angle between the head and the shaft of the femur is reduced to less than 120 degrees. This results in the leg being shortened and the development of a limp. It may be congenital and is commonly cau ...

, affecting the hip ** Genu varum, affecting the knee **

Hallux varus Hallux varus is a deformity of the great toe joint where the hallux (great toe) is deviated medially (towards the midline of the body) away from the first metatarsal bone. The hallux usually moves in the transverse plane. Unlike hallux valgus, als ...

, affecting the big toe **

Cubitus varus Cubitus varus is a varus deformity in which the extended forearm is deviated towards midline of the body. Cubitus varus is often referred to as "Gunstock deformity", due to the crooked nature of the healing. The "opposite" condition is cubitus v ...

, affecting the elbow ** Club foot (talipes equinovarus), affecting the heel

People with the name

* Publius Attius Varus (died 45 BC), Roman governor of Africa *

Publius Quinctilius Varus Publius Quinctilius Varus (Cremona, 46 BC – Teutoburg Forest, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes l ...

(46 BC–AD 9), politician and general of the Roman Empire *

Publius Quinctilius Varus the Younger Publius Quinctilius Varus Minor (''Minor'' Latin for ''the younger'') (AD 4 AD 27) was a Roman senator. Family background Varus was a member of the gens Quinctilia. He was the only child born to the Roman general and politician Publius Quinctili ...

(c. AD 1–27), son of Publius Quinctilius Varus * Marcus Plancius Varus (1st century AD), politician of the Roman Empire * Gaius Plancius Varus (1st–2nd century AD), son of Marcus Plancius Varus and politician of the Roman Empire * Titus Clodius Vibius Varus, Roman consul, 160 AD * Titus Vibius Varus, Roman consul, 134 AD * Titus Vibius Varus, Roman suffect consul, 115 AD *

Alfenus Varus Alfenus Varus was an ancient Roman jurist and writer who lived around the 1st century BC. Life Alfenus Varus (whose praenomen might have been Publius) was a pupil of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and the only pupil of Servius from whom there are any ...

, 1st-century Roman jurist and possible consul *

Saint Varus Saint Varus ( Gr. Ούαρος) (died ca. 304, Alexandria, Egypt) was an early Christian saint, soldier and martyr. Biography According to his generally reliable and authentic Acts, he was a soldier stationed in Upper Egypt who had the task of g ...

(died c. AD 307), early Christian martyr, soldier from Egypt {{disambiguation