Africanus

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Africanus, in Latin, means "African". It can refer to:

a cognomen of ancient Rome :
- Africanus Fabius Maximus, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC) and an unknown wife
- Cresconius Africanus, a Latin canon lawyer of uncertain date and place
- Julius Africanus, an orator in the time of Nero
- Titus Sextius Africanus, a censor of Gaul in the 1st century
Lucius Apuleius Africanus Madaurensis (c. 124 – c. 170 CE); a Latin-language prose writer
- Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, a consul in the 2nd century under Trajan
- Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd-century Roman legal scholar
- Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
- Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century
- Junillus Africanus (fl. 541–549), a Quaestor of the Sacred Palace in the court of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I
Constantine the African i.e. Constantinus Africanus (11th century)
Leo Africanus (1488–1554)
George Africanus (1763—1834), a West African slave, later credited as Nottingham's first black entrepreneur
Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
Albert Freeman Africanus King, one of the attending doctors during the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Africanus (journal), a scientific journal published by UNISA, about development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa

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