Apollonius

Template:About Template:Wikt Apollonius (Template:Langx) is a masculine given name (with Polish language variant: Apoloniusz) which may refer to:

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People

Ancient world

Artists

• Apollonius of Athens (sculptor) (fl. 1st century BC)
• Apollonius of Tralles (fl. 2nd century BC), sculptor
• Apollonius (satyr sculptor)
• Apollonius (son of Archias), sculptor

Historians

• Apollonius of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 3rd century BC), historian of Caria
• Apollonius of Ascalon, historian mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium

Writers

• Apollonius Attaleus, writer on dreams
• Apollonius of Acharnae, ancient Greek writer on festivals
• Apollonius of Laodicea, writer on astrology
• Apollonius of Rhodes (born c. 270 BC), librarian and poet, best known for the Argonautica
• Apollonius (son of Chaeris), ancient Greek writer, mentioned by the scholiast on Aristophanes
• Apollonius (son of Sotades), writer

Oratory

• Apollonius Dyscolus (fl. 2nd century AD), grammarian
• Apollonius Eidographus, ancient Greek grammarian
• Apollonius Molon (fl. 70 BC), rhetorician
• Apollonius of Athens or Apollonius of Naucratis, (fl. 2nd century AD), sophist and rhetorician
• Apollonius the Effeminate (fl. 120 BC), Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria
• Apollonius the Sophist, grammarian who lived towards the end of the 1st century, and wrote a renowned Homeric lexicon

Philosophers

• Apollonius Cronus (fl. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Megarian school
• Apollonius of Chalcedon, philosophy tutor to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
• Apollonius of Syria, Platonic philosopher
• Apollonius of Tyana (c. 40–c. 100 AD), Neo-Pythagorean philosopher
• Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher), Stoic philosopher
• Apollonius paradoxographus (fl. 2nd century BC), paradoxographer

Political

• Apollonius (ambassador) (fl. 2nd century BC), ambassador sent from the Seleucid Empire
• Apollonius (consul 460), consul in 460
• Apollonius (freedman), or Publius Licinius Apollonius, secretary of Publius Licinius Crassus
• Apollonius (magister militum) (fl. 443–451), Eastern Roman general
• Apollonius of Clazomenae (fl. 2nd century BC), ambassador sent to the Seleucid Empire
• Apollonius of Drepanum (fl. 2nd century BC), citizen of Sicily
• Apollonius of Sicily, leader of a revolt in 103 BCE
• Apollonius (praetorian prefect) (442–443), Roman Praetorian prefect
• Apollonius (Seleucid) (fl. 2nd century BC) a friend of Demetrius I Soter
• Apollonius (son of Charinus), politician under Alexander the Great
• Apollonius the dioiketes (fl. 250 BC), finance minister of Egypt
• Apollonius (tyrant), (fl. 1st century BC), Mesopotamian tyrant
• Apollonius, general of the Samarians, who was defeated at the Battle of Ma'aleh Levona in 167 BC

Religious figures

• Apollonius, Bishop of Corinth, 2nd-century Bishop of Corinth
• Apollonius (bishop of Ephesus), 2nd-century Christian writer
• Apollonius (martyr), Christian martyr of the 2nd century
• Apollonius of Egypt, theorist on the age of the world
• Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. 180–210), religious leader and writer
• Apollonius the Apologist (died c. 186), religious leader
• Apollonius of Rome, Christian martyr of the 4th century

Physicians and scientists

• List of physicians named Apollonius, a list of physicians in ancient Greece and Rome
  • Apollonius Glaucus, physician
  • Apollonius of Citium (fl. 1st century BC), physician
• Apollonius of Perga (late 3rd–early 2nd centuries BC), geometer and astronomer

Other

• Apollonius of Myndus, ancient astrologer said to be skilled with horoscopes

Modern world

• Apollonius Schotte (c. 1579–1639), Dutch statesman
• Apollonius von Maltitz (1795–1870), Russian diplomat
• Apoloniusz Bębnista, Polish teacher, Barbarka massacre victim
• Apoloniusz Kędzierski (1861–1939), Polish painter, illustrator and decorator
• Apoloniusz Nieniewski, Polish architect of Mier Halls
• Apoloniusz Tajner (born 1954), Polish Nordic combined skier and former coach of the Polish national ski jumping team
• Apoloniusz Tyszka, Polish scientist

Fictional characters

• Apollonius of Tyre, medieval fictional character

See also

• Apollinaris (disambiguation)
• Apollo (disambiguation)
• Apollodorus (disambiguation)
• Apollonia (disambiguation)
• Apollonius point, a triangle center in plane geometry
• Apollonius' theorem, an elementary geometry theorem about triangles
• Circles of Apollonius
• Problem of Apollonius, geometric problem touching on tangency of circle
• Parnassius apollonius, scientific name of a butterfly