Ananias Explained
Ananias may refer to:
People
Mononyms
- Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III
- Ananias of Adiabene (15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I
- Ananias son of Nedebeus, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea
- Ananias and Sapphira, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God
- Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul
- Ananias III, a saint in the 3rd century
- Ananias (Persian), priest and fellow martyr of Shemon Bar Sabbae (died 345)
- Ananias of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century
- Ananias I of Armenia (died 968)
- Ananias (Jafaridze) (born 1949), Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox Church
- Ananias (footballer) (1989–2016), Brazilian footballer
Surname
Given name
- Ananías Diokno (1860–1922), Leader of the Filipino Visayan forces against the US during the Philippine–American War; grandfather of José W. Diokno
- Ananias Dare (1560–1587), husband of Eleanor White and father of Virginia Dare, whose birth was the first to English parents in North America
- Ananias Davisson (1780–1857), American singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks
- Ananías Maidana (1923–2010), teacher and politician in Paraguay
Other uses
- Ananias (gastropod), an extinct genus in family Eotomariidae
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