Claudius (disambiguation) explained
Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 10 BC – 54 AD) was the fourth Roman Emperor, reigning from AD 41 to his death.
Claudius, a name of Latin origin meaning crippled, may also refer to:
People
Ancient world
Middle Ages
Later
- Gelawdewos, known as Claudius in English, mid-16th-century Emperor of Ethiopia
- Claudius Salmasius, Latin name of Claude Saumaise (1588 - 1653), French classical scholar
- Hendrik Claudius, (c. 1655–1697), painter and apothecary
- Claudius Smith (1736 - 1779), a notorious British Loyalist guerrilla leader in the American Revolution
- Matthias Claudius (1740 - 1815), German poet famous for Death and the Maiden
- Claudius Buchanan (1766 - 1815), Scottish theologian, ordained minister of the Church of England, and missionary
- Claudius Crozet (1789 - 1864), French-American educator and civil engineer
- Claudius B. Grant (1835 - 1921), American jurist
- Eduard Claudius (1911–1976), German writer and diplomat
- Claudius Dornier (1884 - 1969), German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH
- Hermann Claudius (1878–1980), German writer and poet, great-grandson of Matthias
Other uses
- 7117 Claudius, asteroid
- King Claudius, Hamlet's uncle in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
- Claudius (turtle), a genus of mud turtles
- Claudius, a residential suburb of Centurion, South Africa that is closely associated with Laudium
- A typeface created by Rudolf Koch
See also