Titus (disambiguation)

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Titus may refer to:

People

Given name

Ancient Rome

  • Titus (praenomen), a common praenomen of unknown etymology
  • Emperor Titus (AD 39–81), Titus Flavius Vespasianus
    • His father, Emperor Vespasian (AD 9–79), also named Titus Flavius Vespasianus
  • Emperor Domitian (AD 51–96), Titus Flavius Domitianus
  • The historian Titus Livius (59 BC–AD 17), usually referred to as Livy in English
  • Titus Pomponius Atticus (110/109 BC–35/32 BC), littérateur/philosopher and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c. 229 BC–174 BC), politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece
  • Titus Labienus (c. 100 BC–45 BC), Roman general
  • Titus Tatius (died 748 BC), according to tradition, the Sabine king who attacked Rome, but reconciled with the Roman king Romulus
  • Titus (usurper), one of the Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta
  • Titus Pullo, centurion in Caesar's legions
  • Titus Junius Brutus (died c. 509 BC), member of the Tarquinian conspiracy
  • Titus Tarquinius, son of the last king of Rome

Early Christian figures

  • Saint Titus (died 96 or 107), fellow worker with St. Paul of Tarsus and pastor of the first Christian church in Crete at Gortyn
  • Titus (patriarch), Patriarch of Constantinople (242–272)
  • Titus of Bostra (died c. 378), Christian theologian and bishop
  • Titus, another name for Saint Dismas in Arabic Christian tradition

Other

  • Titus Bramble (born 1981), English footballer
  • Titus Brandsma (1881–1942), outspoken Dutch Catholic opponent of Nazism
  • Titus Lewis (1773–1811), Welsh Calvinist and writer
  • Titus Oates (1649–1705), English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot"
  • Titus van Rijn (1641–1668), son of the Dutch painter Rembrandt
  • Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in West Yorkshire, creator of alpaca cloth
  • Titus Welliver (born 1961), American actor

Surname

  • Christopher Titus (born 1964), comedian actor of the sitcom Titus
  • Dina Titus (born 1950), American politician
  • Eve Titus (1922–2002), children's writer
  • Herb Titus (born 1937), Constitution Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 US election
  • Jack Titus (1908–1978), Australian rules footballer
  • Mark Titus (born 1987), Ohio State University basketball player and blogger
  • Robert Titus (c. 1600–c. 1670), English Puritan, New England settler
  • Robert C. Titus (1839–1918), New York politician
  • Silas Titus (1811–1899), American Civil War soldier and active organizer of the city of Syracuse, New York
  • Silas Wright Titus (1849–1922), engineer and inventor of water pumping systems, discoverer of water supply for New York City in the late nineteenth century
  • Silius Titus (1623–1704), captain of Deal Castle, and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles II
  • William A. Titus (1868-1951), American businessman and politician

Ring name

Places

Animals

In fiction

In science and technology

  • TITUS (project), a project for creation of an Indo-European languages thesaurus
  • Titus (rocket), a French rocket
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic, a typeface developed by the TITUS Project and Bitstream Inc

Other

  • The Epistle to Titus, a New Testament book of the Bible
  • Titus books (publisher), a New Zealand based independent publisher
  • Titus Software, a defunct video game developer and publisher

See also

  • Titus the Fox, a video game by Titus Software
  • Tito (disambiguation)

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