Gallus may refer to:
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Saint Gall
Gall (; 550 645) according to hagiographic tradition was a disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent. However, he may have originally come from the border region betwe ...
or ''Gallus'' (c. 550 – c. 646), Irish monk
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Gallus Anonymus, 12th-century Polish historian
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Agnes Gallus, (1930–2010), Hungarian Canadian artist
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Gallus, Bishop of Transylvania, 13th-century Hungarian prelate
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Gallus Mag, 19th-century female bouncer at a New York bar
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Georg Gallus
Georg Gallus (6 July 1927 – 13 August 2021) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as member of the German Bundestag.
Life
On 10 September 1970, Gallus entered the Bundestag to replace Ralf Dahrendorf, who h ...
(1927–2021), German politician
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Chris Gallus (born 1943), Australian politician
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Thomas Gallus (c. 1200–1246), French theologian
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Jacobus Gallus
Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.Skei/Pokorn, Grove online Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the ...
(1550–1591), Slovene composer
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Nicolaus Gallus (c. 1516–1570), German Lutheran Reformer
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Sandor Gallus (1907–1996), Australian archaeologist
Romans
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Constantius Gallus
Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus (326 – 354) was a statesman and ruler in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from 351 to 354, as Caesar (title), ''Caesar'' under emperor Constantius II (), his cousin. A grandson of emperor Constantius ...
(326–354), junior Roman emperor from 351 to 354
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Cornelius Gallus
Gaius Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 – 26 BC) was a Roman poet, orator, politician and military commander, at one time appointed by the Emperor Augustus as prefect of Egypt. Only nine lines of his poetry are extant today, but he was much read in antiq ...
(c. 70–26 BC), Roman poet, orator and politician
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Quintus Roscius Gallus
Quintus Roscius (ca. 126 BC – 62 BC) was a Roman actor. The cognomen Gallus is dubious, as it appears only once as a scholia in a manuscript of Cicero's Pro Archia.
Life
''Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans '' '' cum subito a l ...
(c. 126–62 BC), Roman actor
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Trebonianus Gallus
Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus ( 206 – August 253) was Roman emperor from June 251 to August 253, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus.
Early life
Gallus was born in Italy, in a respected senatorial family with Etruscan ancestry, cer ...
(206–253), Roman emperor
Animal-related
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''Gallus'' (genus), a genus of birds including junglefowl and domestic chickens
*''Gallus''
Lacepède, 1802, a synonym for the fish genus ''
Alectis''
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Gallus (constellation), the cockerel, an obsolete constellation
Other
*''Gallus'', the singular form of ''
Galli
A ''gallus'' (pl. ''galli'') was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome.
Origins
Cybele's cult may have o ...
'', the eunuch priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele
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''Gallus'' (album), 1992 album by Scottish rock band Gun
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Gallus (Frankfurt am Main)
Gallus (known as the Gallusviertel until 2007) is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the ''Ortsbezirk (Frankfurt am Main), Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I'' and the location of the Frankfurt train station.
The name ''Gallus'' originat ...
, a district of Frankfurt, Germany
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Gallus (professional wrestling)
Gallus are a Scottish Heel (professional wrestling), villainous professional wrestling stable (professional wrestling), stable consisting of Wolfgang (wrestler), Wolfgang and real-life brothers Joe Coffey (wrestler), Joe Coffey and Mark Coffey. ...
, a Scottish professional wrestling stable
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Galli (disambiguation)
Latin-language surnames
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