Placidus

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Placidus is Latin for "placid, gentle, quiet, still, calm, mild, peaceful" and can refer to:

  • Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix (480–511), Consul of Rome
  • Placidus de Titis (also de Titus, Latinization of Placido de Titi), 1603–1668, astrologer
  • Placidus Böcken (1690–1752), German Benedictine canon lawyer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salzburg
  • Placidus Braun, OSB (1756–1829), Bavarian Benedictine priest, historian and archivist
  • Placidus Fixlmillner (1721–1791), first astronomer to compute the orbit of Uranus
  • Placidus Nkalanga (born 1919), Tanzanian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church
  • Saint Placidus, follower of St. Benedict
  • Saint Placidus (martyr), Sicilian martyr
  • Placidus a Spescha, Swiss monk and Alpine explorer

See also

  • Placidus, system for calculating astrological houses
  • Lucanus placidus, beetle in the Family Lucanidae
  • Placido (disambiguation)
  • Placid
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