Gallus
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Gallus may be:
- People
- Quintus Roscius Gallus (c. 126–62 BC), Roman actor
- Gaius Asinius Gallus (d. 33), Roman consul
- Gaius Cornelius Gallus (69–26 BC), first Roman governor of Egypt, writer of elegiac verse
- Trebonianus Gallus (251–253), Roman emperor
- Constantius Gallus (d. 354), cousin of Emperor Constantius II
- Saint Gall (Saint Gallus) (7th century)
- Gallus Anonymus, a chronicler working in XIth and XIIth century Poland
- Jacobus Gallus (1550–1591), composer
- Ancient Rome
- Gallus, Latin for inhabitant of Gaul
- gallus, the Latin word for "cockerel"
- Gallus, a Roman term for one of the Corybantes, followers of Cybele
- Animals
- The bird genus Gallus in the Pheasant family includes the wild form of the domesticated chicken Gallus gallus.
- Other
- Gallus is the second album by the Scottish rock band Gun.
- Gallus (The Cockerel), an obsolete constellation
- Gallus, elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural).
- Gallus, Scottish slang, meaning daring, cheeky, impish, mischievous. It is a good thing.
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