Andronicus

Andronicus or Andronikos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) is a classical Greek name. The name has the sense of "male victor, warrior". The female is Andronike (Ἀνδρονίκη). Notable bearers of the name include:

• Livius Andronicus (c. 284–204 BC), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c.240 BC
• Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC
• Andronicus of Cyrrhus (c. 100 BC), Greek astronomer
• Andronicus of Rhodes (c. 70 BC), Greek philosopher
• Andronicus of Pannonia (Saint Andronicus), an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16:7
• Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Saint Andronicus), a 4th-century martyr
• Andronicus of Alexandria, a soldier, martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
• Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria (reigned 616–622)

• Five Byzantine emperors:
  • Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185)
  • Andronikos II Palaiologos (1258–1332)
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos (1297–1341)
  • Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1348–1385)
  • Andronikos V Palaiologos (c. 1400 – c. 1407), co-emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos
• Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonike (1403–1429)

• Three emperors of Trebizond:
  • Andronikos I of Trebizond (died 1235)
  • Andronikos II of Trebizond (c. 1240–1266)
  • Andronikos III of Trebizond (c. 1310–1332)

• In fiction:
• Titus Andronicus, a play by William Shakespeare, possibly inspired by one of the above-listed emperors
• Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician, a 1646 satire by Thomas Fuller