Claudius (disambiguation)

Claudius is a name of Latin origin, meaning "crippled".

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

Claudius 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 (ca. 175ca. 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

Later

  • Gelawdewos of Ethiopia, known as Claudius in English, mid-16th-century Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Claudius Salmasius, Latin name of Claude Saumaise (15881653), French classical scholar
  • Claudius Smith (17361779), a notorious British Loyalist guerrilla leader in the American Revolution
  • Matthias Claudius (17401815), German poet famous for Death and the Maiden
  • Claudius Buchanan (17661815), Scottish theologian, ordained minister of the Church of England, and missionary
  • Claudius Crozet (17891864), French-American educator and civil engineer
  • Claudius B. Grant (18351921), American jurist
  • Eduard Claudius (1911–1976), German writer and diplomat
  • Claudius Dornier (18841969), German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH
  • Hermann Claudius (1878–1980), German writer and poet, great-grandson of Matthias

Astronomy

  • 7117 Claudius, asteroid

Other uses

  • King Claudius, Hamlet's uncle in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
  • Claudius, 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
  • Claudius, a 1703 Singspiel by Reinhard Keiser
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