Agrippa (disambiguation)

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Agrippa may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Classical era 1.2 Modern era 1.3 Fictional characters 2 Other 3 See also

[edit] People

[edit] Classical era

• Agrippa (Alba Longa), a semi-mythological king of Alba Longa
• Menenius Agrippa, a Roman consul in 503 BC.
• Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general, friend of Caesar Augustus.
• Three sons of the above:
  • Gaius Vipsanius Agrippa (20 BC–AD 4; also known Gaius Julius Caesar).
  • Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa (17 BC–AD 2, also known as Lucius Julius Caesar).
  • Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus (12 BC–AD 14).
• Gaius Fonteius Agrippa, a father and son with the same name; the former an accuser of Libo, the latter suffect consul in 58 AD
• Decimus Haterius Agrippa, consul in 22 AD
• Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25 AD
• Vibulenus Agrippa, committed suicide in the Roman senate in 36 AD
• Two kings of the Roman client kingdom Judea:
  • Agrippa I, (10 BC–AD 44) grandson of Herod the Great
  • Agrippa II, (AD 27–100), son of Agrippa I
• Agrippa (astronomer), a Greek astronomer from the late 1st century
• Agrippa the Sceptic, a Sceptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century
• Agrippa Castor, a Christian Roman writer of the 2nd century
• Marcius Agrippa, a slave of the 3rd century who was eventually elevated to senatorial rank by Macrinus

[edit] Modern era

• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, an occult magician (1486–1535)
• Camillo Agrippa, a sixteenth-century architect who applied geometric theory to the art of fencing.
• Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler

[edit] Fictional characters

• Agrippa, a superhero from "The Tick" (Only appeared in animated series)
• Mumboz Agrippa, a fictional character from the Zork series of computer games
• Marcus Agrippa (character of Rome), a character based on the historical Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the BBC-HBO-RAI television series Rome.

[edit] Other

• Agrippa (crater), named after Agrippa (astronomer)
• Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a multimedia poem by William Gibson (see also: MindVox)

[edit] See also

• Agrippina
• Agrippinus