Phineas

Phineas (/ˈfɪniəs/) is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Phineas, an Anglicized name for the priest Phinehas in the Hebrew Bible
  • Phineas Banning (1830–1885), American businessman and entrepreneur
  • P. T. Barnum (1810–1891), American showman and businessman
  • Phineas Bowles (died 1722), British Army major-general
  • Phineas Bowles (1690–1749), British Army lieutenant-general and Member of Parliament; son of the above
  • Phineas F. Bresee (1838–1915), American founder of the Church of the Nazarene
  • Phineas Bruce (1762–1809), American politician
  • Phineas Clanton (1843–1906), American Old West cattle rustler and brother of outlaws Billy and Ike Clanton
  • Phineas Davis (1792–1835), American clockmaker and inventor who designed and built the first practical American coal-burning locomotive
  • Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), Scottish-English poet
  • Phineas Gage (1823–1860), American railroad construction foreman whose personality was changed by an accident that destroyed part of his brain
  • Phineas Hitchcock (1831–1881), American politician
  • Phineas Hodson (died 1646), Anglican clergyman and Chancellor of York from 1611 to 1646
  • Phineas Jones (1819–1884), American politician
  • Phineas Jenks (1781–1851), American doctor and politician
  • Phineas C. Lounsbury (1841–1925), American politician and 53rd Governor of Connecticut
  • Phineas W. Leland (1798–1870), American physician, journalist and politician
  • Phineas Lovett (1745–1828), farmer, merchant, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia (now part of Canada)
  • Phineas Lyman (1716–1774), colonial American soldier
  • Phineas Newborn, Jr. (1931–1989), American jazz pianist
  • Phineas Paist (1873–1937), American architect
  • Phineas Pett (1570–1647), English shipwright
  • Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), American religious teacher, philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, inventor and writer
  • Phineas Riall (1775–1850), British general and Governor of Grenada
  • Phineas Ryrie (1829–1892), Scottish tea merchant in Hong Kong
  • Phineas J. Stone (1810–1891), American politician
  • Phineas L. Tracy (1786–1876), American politician
  • Phineas White (1770–1847), American lawyer and politician
  • Phineas Young (1799–1879), Mormon pioneer and missionary, older brother of Brigham Young

Fictional characters

gollark: Oh, have you seen Basilisk?
gollark: What if I wish for proof that it works?
gollark: Just give everyone neural implants allowing thought broadcasting‽
gollark: > I love how that'd push implementation difficulty from "completely infeasible" to "physically impossible"WRONG!
gollark: Real men just attach jumper cables to the RAM.

See also

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