Claudius (disambiguation)

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:

Ancient world

 * Any member of the family of Claudii; see Claudia (gens)
 * Saint Claudius (disambiguation), the name of several Christian saints
 * Claudius Aelianus (c. 175 – c. 235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric
 * Claudius Gothicus, also known as Marcus Aurelius Claudius or Claudius II, Roman Emperor from 268 to 270
 * Claudius Silvanus (died 355), Roman general and usurper

Middle Ages

 * Claudius, Duke of Lusitania, late sixth century Hispano-Roman Catholic dux (duke) of Lusitania and general
 * Claudius of Turin ( 810–827), bishop of Turin, teacher of iconoclasm
 * Claudius Clavus (1388–?), Danish geographer

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