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Claudius (disambiguation)

Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 10 BC – 54 AD) was the fourth Roman Emperor, reigning from AD 41 to his death.

Claudius, a name of Latin origin meaning crippled, may also refer to:

People

Ancient world

  • Any member of the family of Claudii; see Claudia (gens)
  • Saint Claudius (disambiguation), the name of several Christian saints
  • Claudius Aelianus (c. 175 – c. 235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric
  • Claudius Gothicus, also known as Marcus Aurelius Claudius or Claudius II, Roman Emperor from 268 to 270
  • Claudius Silvanus (died 355), Roman general and usurper

Middle Ages

  • Claudius, Duke of Lusitania, late sixth century Hispano-Roman Catholic dux (duke) of Lusitania and general
  • Claudius of Turin ( 810–827), bishop of Turin, teacher of iconoclasm
  • Claudius Clavus (1388–?), Danish geographer

Later

  • Gelawdewos, known as Claudius in English, mid-16th-century Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Claudius Salmasius, Latin name of Claude Saumaise (1588–1653), French classical scholar
  • Hendrik Claudius, (c. 1655–1697), painter and apothecary
  • Claudius Smith (1736–1779), a notorious British Loyalist guerrilla leader in the American Revolution
  • Matthias Claudius (1740–1815), German poet famous for Death and the Maiden
  • Claudius Buchanan (1766–1815), Scottish theologian, ordained minister of the Church of England, and missionary
  • Claudius Crozet (1789–1864), French-American educator and civil engineer
  • Claudius B. Grant (1835–1921), American jurist
  • Eduard Claudius (1911–1976), German writer and diplomat
  • Claudius Dornier (1884–1969), German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH
  • Hermann Claudius (1878–1980), German writer and poet, great-grandson of Matthias
  • Claudius Vermilye (1928–2018), American defrocked Episcopal priest and child pornographer

Other uses

  • 7117 Claudius, asteroid
  • King Claudius, Hamlet's uncle in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
  • Claudius (turtle), a genus of mud turtles
  • Claudius, a residential suburb of Centurion, South Africa that is closely associated with Laudium
  • A typeface created by Rudolf Koch
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