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  • Caius (bishop of Milan)
    Caius (bishop of Milan)
    Caius was Bishop of Milan in early 3rd-century. He is honoured as a Saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is on September 27.-Life:...

    , bishop of Milan in the early 3rd-century, saint
  • Caius (presbyter)
    Caius (presbyter)
    Caius, Presbyter of Rome was a Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century. Only fragments of his works are known, which are given in the collection entitled The Ante-Nicene Fathers. However, the Muratorian fragment, an early attempt to establish the canon of the...

    , Christian writer
  • Caius Gabriel Cibber
    Caius Gabriel Cibber
    Caius Gabriel Cibber was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber. He was appointed "carver to the king's closet" by William III....

    , sculptor
  • Caius of Korea
    Caius of Korea
    Blessed Caius of Korea is the 128th of the 205 Roman Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan five years before on 8 June 1862.The 19th century French Catholic missionary Claude-Charles Dallet wrote of him in his A...

    , Catholic missionary
  • Caius Welcker
    Caius Welcker
    Jan Herman "Caius" Welcker was a Dutch football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born in Alkmaar and died in Schiedam....

    , footballer
  • John Caius
    John Caius
    John Caius , also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-Early years:...

    , physician and cofounder of Gonville and Caius College
  • Pope Caius
    Pope Caius
    Pope Saint Caius or Gaius was Pope from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native of the Dalmatian city of Salona, today Solin near Split, the son of a man also named Caius, and a member of a noble family related to the Emperor Diocletian.Little information on Caius...

  • Caius is the name that the Earl of Kent, a character in the play King Lear
    King Lear
    King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...

    , takes when in disguise
  • Caius is also the name of characters in several other Shakespeare plays; for example, he is the protagonist in Coriolanus
    Coriolanus
    Gaius Marcius Coriolanus was a Roman general who is said to have lived in the 5th century BC. He received his toponymic cognomen "Coriolanus" because of his exceptional valor in a Roman siege of the Volscian city of Corioli. He was then promoted to a general...

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  • Caius is a character in the book The Skystone
    The Skystone
    The Skystone is a historical fiction novel written by Jack Whyte, which was first published in 1992. The story is told by a Roman Officer called Publius Varrus, who is an expert blacksmith as well as a soldier...

     of the series A Dream of Eagles
    A Dream of Eagles
    A Dream of Eagles is a historical novel series written by the Canadian author Jack Whyte. It was published in the United States as the Camulod Chronicles....

    , by Jack Whyte.
  • Caius is a character in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.
  • Caius, the main antagonist in Final Fantasy XIII-2
    Final Fantasy XIII-2
    is an upcoming console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is being produced by Square Enix's 1st Production Department...

    .

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  • Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...

    • Caius Boat Club
      Caius Boat Club
      Caius Boat Club is the boat club for members of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.The Club rows on the river Cam, and like the other college boat clubs its prime constitutional aim is to gain and hold the headship of the Lent Bumps and May Bumps, now held in eight-oared boats, separately for...

    • Gonville & Caius A.F.C.
      Gonville & Caius A.F.C.
      Gonville & Caius AFC, more commonly known as Caius, is the representative football club of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, England. It is one of only a few university teams to have entered the FA Cup 1st round proper....

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