Africanus

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Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to:

People

Ancient Roman cognomen

• 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

• 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

• Africanus (journal), a scientific journal about development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa

See also

• 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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