Petronius (disambiguation)

Petronius (c. AD 27–66) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero, and author of the Satyricon.

Petronius may also refer to:

People

 * Members of the Petronia gens, an ancient Roman plebeian family
 * Gaius Petronius (c. 75 BC – after 20 BC), Prefect of Roman Aegyptus
 * Petronius of Egypt, 4th-century Egyptian Christian monk
 * Peter I of Trani, first Norman count of Trani

Other uses

 * Petronius (horse), a racehorse
 * Petronius (oil platform), in the Gulf of Mexico
 * Petronius Paperonius, Donald Duck's ancestor, in comics
 * Petronius the Arbiter, a cat in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door into Summer