Ptolemy (disambiguation) explained
Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer.
Ptolemy, Ptolemaeus or Tolomeo may also refer to:
People
- Ptolemy (name), the English form of the Greek name Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaios)
Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt
Any of 15 Greco-Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305 BC–30 BC):Also several dynasty members who ruled other territories, but not in Egypt:
Early Greek rulers and generals
Other people
- Ptolemy Macron (fl. 2nd century BC), governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia
- Ptolemaeus son of Glaucias (fl. 2nd century BC), ancient Egyptian hermit
- Ptolemaeus of Commagene (201 BC - 130 BC), satrap and then first King of Commagene
- Ptolemy son of Abubus, governor of Jericho (c. 130s BC) who betrayed the Hasmonean king Simon Thassi
- Ptolemy (son of Mennaeus) (rule ended ca. 40 BC), governor of biblical Abilene
- Ptolemaeus Chennus (2nd century AD), an Alexandrian grammarian
- Ptolemaeus and Lucius (d. c. 165 AD), Christian martyrs
- Ptolemy (gnostic) (c. 180 AD), a religious philosopher of Roman Italy and Gaul
- Ptolemy-el-Garib (fl. c. 300 AD), a Peripatetic pinacographer whose Life of Aristotle
- Ptolemaeus Secundus ('Second Ptolemy'), a nickname for the Arab polymath Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965 – c. 1040)
- Ptolemy I of Tusculum (d.1126), a count of Tusculum who asserted his family's descent from the Roman Julii
- Ptolemy II of Tusculum (d.1153), a count of Tusculum who married Bertha, daughter of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ptolemaios Sarigiannis (1882–1958), a Greek Army officer
- Ptolemy Tompkins (born 1962), an American author
- Ptolemy Dean (born 1968), a British architect, author, and TV presenter
- Ptolemy Slocum (born 1975), an American actor
- Barry Ptolemy (born 1969), an American film director and producer
People named Tolomeo or Tolomei
Places
- Mount Ptolemy (Antarctica), a mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Mount Ptolemy (Canada), a mountain in the Flathead Range of the Canadian Rockies
In space
Music
Literature
Television
See also