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

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Saint Maurus of Parentium Maurus of Parentium is the patron saint of the Istrian city of Poreč, Poreč/Parenzo in Croatia, called Parentium in Roman times. He is commemorated on November 21. Narrative According to one account, Maurus was of noble Roman birth, and became ...

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

Saint Maurus Maurus, OSB (; ) (512–584) was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic monk best known as the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate (religion), oblate ...

(c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia *

Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus Rabanus Maurus Magnentius ( 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the ...

(Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856) *

Saint Maurus of Pécs In Christian 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 Anglican, Oriental Ortho ...

, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075) ;Others *

Servius the Grammarian Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian ( or ), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian. He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he authored a set of commentaries o ...

, commentator on Vergil sometimes called Maurus Servius in medieval manuscripts *

Manfred Maurus Manfred Maurus was a German scientist, an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, researcher, and head of the Department of Behavioral Physiology at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. Maurus was a pioneer in neur ...

(died 2008), German scientist * (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher *

Mister Maurus ''Truth and Justice'' () I-V, written in 1926–1933, is a pentalogy by A. H. Tammsaare, considered to be one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel". Tammsaare's social epic captured the evolution of Estonia from ...

, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare *

Sylvester Maurus Sylvester Maurus (31 December 1619 – 13 January 1687) was an Italian Scholastic theologian. Life Sylvester Maurus was born in Spoleto, Italy, on 31 December 1619 to a noble family. He entered the Society of Jesus, 21 April 1636. After hi ...

(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 Alexander Horn (or Dom Maurus Horn, OSB; 28 June 1762 – 1820), was a Scottish Benedictine monk who became a secret agent and diplomat. His work contributed to the birth of the conspiracy theory of the illuminati.Mark Dilworth, ‘Horn, Alexander ...

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Mauretania Mauretania (; ) is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, encompassing northern present-day Morocco, and from the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean in the ...

, ancient kingdom and late Roman province * ''

Maurus vogelii ''Maurus vogelii'' or Vogel's blue is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, found in Morocco, North Africa. It is the sole representative of the monotypic genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family ...

'', a species of gossamer-winged butterflies

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