Titus (praenomen)
Titus is a Sabine -Roman, male first name.
Origin and Meaning
Origin and Meaning of the name are unknown.
Variants
- German: Tito
- Greek: Τίτος
Name-day
- January 26 Titus, the first bishop of Crete
- Titus Flavius Clemens June 22, martyred in Rome
Well-known bearers of the name
Ancient people
- Titus Tatius the Sabinerkönig
- Titus Manlius Torquatus imperiosus ( 4th century BC), a Roman patrician and consul
- Titus Quinctius Flamininus (~ 230-174 BC), a Roman politician and military commander
- Titus Pomponius Atticus (~ 110-32 BC ), a Roman knight
- Titus Labienus (~ 100-45 BC ), an important officer in the Lord of Caesar
- Titus Livius (around 59 BC -17 AD), a Roman historian
- Titus Flavius Vespasian ( 9-79 ), a Roman emperor
- Titus Flavius Vespasian ( 39-81 ), a Roman emperor, son of the above
- Titus Petronius ( 14-66 ), a Roman author, wrote the satirical novel Satyricon
- Titus Flavius Domitianus ( 51-96 ), a Roman emperor
- Titus ( Byzantium ) Bishop of Byzantium to 272
- Titus Lucretius Carus (~ 97-55 BC), a Roman poet and philosopher
First name
- Titus Dugovic († 1456 ), the Hungarian- Serbian soldier
- Titus van Rijn (1641-1668), Dutch art dealer
- Titus Oates (1649-1705), English clergyman
- Titus Schröder (1686-1726), German clergyman and theologian.
- Titus Brandsma O.Carm. (1881-1942), Dutch - Frisian philosopher and theologian
- Titus Lanz (1897-1967), German anatomist
- Titus ozone (1927-1996), a Romanian football player
- Titus Dittmann ( * 1948 ), a manufacturer of skateboards and skateboard clothing
- Titus Welliver ( born 1961 ), an American actor
Last name
- Alan Titus ( born 1945 ), American baritone
- Christopher Titus (born 1964 ), American actor and stand- up comedian
- Dina Titus ( born 1950 ), American politician
- Eve Titus (1922-2002), American children's book author
- Mark Titus (* 1987), American basketball player and blogger
- Nicholas Titus (1808-1874; Nicolaus also Titus ), Bamberger lawyer and politician
- Obadiah Titus (1789-1854), American politician
Fictional people
- Titus Andronicus, the title character of a play by William Shakespeare
- Titus Fire fox, the title character of the burlesque opera in two acts by Heinrich Suter Master
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