Africanus
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Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to:
People
[edit]Ancient Roman cognomen
[edit]- Africanus Fabius Maximus, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC) and an unknown wife
- Cresconius Africanus, a Latin canon lawyer of uncertain date and place
- Julius Africanus, an orator in the time of Nero
- Titus Sextius Africanus, a censor of Gaul in the 1st century
- Lucius Apuleius Africanus Madaurensis (c. 124–c. 170 CE), a Latin-language prose writer
- Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, a consul in the 2nd century under Trajan
- Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd-century Roman legal scholar
- Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
- Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century
- Junillus Africanus (fl. 541–549), a Quaestor of the Sacred Palace in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I
- Constantine the African i.e. Constantinus Africanus (11th century)
Given name or surname
[edit]- George Africanus (1763—1834), a West African slave, later credited as Nottingham's first black entrepreneur
- Leo Africanus (1488–1554)
- Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
- Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
- Albert Freeman Africanus King (1841–1914), American physician
Other uses
[edit]- Africanus (journal), a scientific journal about development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa
See also
[edit]- Australopithecus africanus, an extinct species of australopithecine
- Africana (disambiguation)
- Africanae (disambiguation)
- Africanis, a group of South African dogs not recognised as a breed
- Africanum
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