Justus (given name)
Justus is a given name which may refer to:
Religious figures
- Justus of Eleutheropolis or Joseph Barsabbas, in the New Testament the man not chosen by lot to take Judas Iscariot's place among the Apostles, later Bishop of Eleutheropolis and martyr
- Pope Justus of Alexandria, Pope of Alexandria (118-129) and a saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Justus of Beauvais (c. 278—c. 287), semi-legendary Roman Catholic saint
- Justus of Trieste (died 293), Roman Catholic saint
- Justus (died c. 304), Christian martyr - see Justus and Pastor
- Justus of Lyons - see Chronological list of saints in the 4th century
- Justus of Urgell (died c. 527), Spanish bishop and saint
- Justus (died 627), Archbishop of Canterbury
Other
- Justus of Tiberias, 1st-century Jewish author and historian
- Justus D. Barnes (1862-1946), American actor in The Great Train Robbery
- Justus Dahinden (born 1925), Swiss architect, teacher, and writer
- Justus Falckner (1672–1723), Lutheran minister and first Lutheran pastor to be ordained within the United States
- Justus Frantz (born 1944), German pianist, conductor, and television personality
- Justus ǁGaroëb (born 1942), Namibian traditional leader and politician
- Justus van Gent (c. 1410–c. 1480), painter from Ghent
- Justus Hagman (1859-1936), Swedish actor
- Justus Carl Hasskarl (1811–1894), German explorer and botanist
- Justus Hecker (1795-1850), German physician and medical writer
- Justus Jonas (1493–1555), German Lutheran reformer
- Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), German chemist
- Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), philologist and humanist from Brabant
- Justus Möser (1720-1794), German jurist and social theorist
- Justus Mühlenpfordt (1911-2000), German nuclear physicist
- Justus Perthes (1749-1816), original editor of the Almanach de Gotha
- Justus Cornelius Ramsey (1821-1881), American politician
- Justus Smith Stearns (1845-1933), American lumber baron and Secretary of State of Michigan
- Justus Sustermans (1597–1681) Flemish painter
- Justus Thorner, owner of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team (1882-1890)
- Justus Velsius (c. 1510-after 1581), Dutch humanist, physician, and mathematician
- Justus Vingboons (c. 1620–c. 1698), Amsterdam architect
Fictional characters
- Justus Ward, on the American soap opera General Hospital
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