Africanus

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

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