List of Latinised names
Encyclopedia
The Latinisation of names in the vernacular
Vernacular
A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language or lingua franca.- Etymology :The term is not a recent one...

 was a procedure deemed necessary for the sake of conformity by scribes and authors when incorporating references to such persons in Latin texts. The procedure was used in the era of the Roman Republic
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic was the period of the ancient Roman civilization where the government operated as a republic. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally dated around 508 BC, and its replacement by a government headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and...

 and Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

. It was used continuously by the Papacy from the earliest times, in religious tracts and in diplomatic and legal documents. It was used by the early European monasteries
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...

. Following the Norman Conquest of England
Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England...

 it was used by the Anglo-Norman clerics and scribes when drawing up charters. Its use was revived in the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 when the new learning was written down in Latin and drew much on the work of Greek, Arabic and other non-Latin ancient authors. Contemporary Italian and European scholars also needed to be Latinised to be quoted in such treatises. The different eras produced their own styles and peculiarities. Sophistication was the trademark of the Renaissance Latinisers. The Anglo-Norman scribes on the other hand were not so learned, and often simply translated the vernacular name into Latin words on the basis of similarity of sound without great reference to sense, or to the avoidance absurdity, which produced some strange results.

Some notable people who have been referred to by Latinised
Latinisation (literature)
Latinisation is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style. It is commonly met with for historical personal names, with toponyms, or for the standard binomial nomenclature of the life sciences. It goes further than Romanisation, which is the writing of a word in the Latin alphabet...

 names are:

Coined in era of Imperial Rome

  • Jesus
    Jesus
    Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...

    , Jesus Nazarenus, Jesus Christus (Yĕhošūa‘)
  • Boadicea (Boudica)

Coined in the Dark Ages

  • Clovis
    Clovis I
    Clovis Leuthwig was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the leadership from a group of royal chieftains, to rule by kings, ensuring that the kingship was held by his heirs. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul . He was the son...

     (Clodovech, Frankish King)
  • Carolus Magnus
    Charlemagne
    Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...

     (Karl
    Karl
    -Royalty:* Karl of Austria - last Austrian Emperor-Karl as first name:*Karl , the ancestor of the peasants according to Norse mythology, see Ríg *Karl Auerbach, computer scientistKarl Walter,German car enthusiast...

    )
  • Mahomet
    Muhammad
    Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

    (Muhammad)
  • Moses Maimonides
    Maimonides
    Moses ben-Maimon, called Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn in Arabic, or Rambam , was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages...

     (Moshe ben Maimon)
  • Odoacer
    Odoacer
    Flavius Odoacer , also known as Flavius Odovacer, was the first King of Italy. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire. Though the real power in Italy was in his hands, he represented himself as the client of Julius Nepos and, after Nepos' death in 480, of the...

    (Audawakrs)

Coined by Anglo-Norman scribes

The following names consist of Anglo-Norman nobles, knights, gentry and administrators and are met with frequently in 13th. & 14th.c. charters, for example those published in the Calendars of the Close Rolls, Patent Rolls, Feet of Fines, etc. Also in the Testa de Nevill
Book of Fees
The Book of Fees is the colloquial title of a modern edition, transcript, rearrangement and enhancement of the mediaeval Liber Feodorum , being a listing of feudal landholdings or "fees/fiefs", compiled in about 1302, but from earlier records, for the use of the English Exchequer...

(Book of Fees), Cartae Baronum
English feudal barony
In England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was a form of Feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons. It must be distinguished from a barony, also feudal, but which existed within a county palatine, such as the Barony...

etc.
  • ABA - Abbott
  • de ABBACIA - Abbess; Dabbs
  • de ABBANEIO - Abney
  • ABBAS - Abbott
  • de ABRINCIS - D'Avranches
  • ACUTUS - Hawkwood
  • de ADURNI PORTU - Etherington
  • de AGNELLIS - Agnew; Dagnall
  • de AGNIS - Aisnes; Ains
  • de AILLIO - D'Aile; Alley
  • ALA CAMPI - Wingfield
  • de ALBA MARA; de ALBA MARLA - Albemarle; Aumarle
  • de ALBINEIO - D'Aubeney; Albiney; Albeney
  • ALBERICUS; ALBREA; ALBRAEUS - Awbrey
  • de ALBINEIO; ALBINIACO - D'Aubeney; Albiney; Dolben
  • de ALBO MONASTERIO - Blancmuster; Whitchurch
  • ALBUS - White
  • de ALDEDELEGA; de ALDITHELEGA; ALDITHELEIA - Audley
  • ALEC - Herring
  • de ALEMANIA - Dalmaine
  • ALEMANNICUS - Allman
  • ALESIUS - Alane
  • de ALNETO - Dawnay; Dannay; Dennett
  • de ALNO - Daunay
  • ALSELINUS - Ansell; Ancell
  • de ALTA RIVA; de ALTA RIPA - de Hauterive; *Dawtrey; Daltry; Hawtrey
  • de ALTA VILLA - De Hauteville
  • de ALTA MENILLO - de Hautmesnil
  • de AMBLIA - De Amblie; Hamley
  • ANASTASIUS - Anstis
  • de ANCARIIS - Dancer
  • de andeuvilla - Hanwell
  • ANGLICUS -Inglis; England
  • de ANGULIS - Angell
  • de ANGULO - del Angle; atte Cornere.
  • in ANGULO - atte Noke
  • de ANSA - Daunce
  • de APIBUS - Bee; Bye (?)
  • APOTECARIUS -Lespicer; Spicer
  • APPARITOR - Sumner
  • de AQUA BLANCA - Egeblaunch; Aygueblanche
  • de AQUA FRISCA - Freshwater
  • AQUAPONTANUS - Bridgwater
  • De AQUILA - Eagle; D'Eagles; Diggles
  • Arbalistarius - Arblaster; Alabaster
  • ARCHIDIACONUS - Archdeacon; Arcedeckne
  • de ARCHIS; ARCIS - D'Arques; Arch; Dark
  • de ARELA - Harela; Argles
  • ARCUARIUS - Archer; Larcher
  • de ARCUSBUS - de Arches; Bowes
  • De ARENIS - Darens; Darayns; Sandes
  • de ARGENTOMO - Argetoune
  • de ARIDA VILLA - Dryton; Dryden
  • de ARIETE - Herriott
  • ARMIGER - Arminger
  • de ARMIS - Harms; Armes
  • ARUNDELIUS - Arundel
  • ASCELINUS - Ansell; Ancell
  • ASCULPHUS - Ayscough; Askew
  • de ASNERIIS - Daniers; Denyer
  • de ATRIO - Hall
  • de AUBEMARA - Albemarle
  • AUBERICUS - Awbrey
  • de AUCO; DE AUCA - Owe
  • de AUGO - D'Eu; Auge; Agg; Dagg
  • AUGUSTINUS - Austin; Hotine
  • de AULA - Hall (See also de HAULA)
  • Ad AULAM - atte Halle; Hall
  • AUONIUS - Of Northampton
  • de AUREA VALLE - Dorival; Dorvell; Darvall
  • de AUREIS TESTICULIS - Orescuilz
  • de AUREO VADO - Goldford or Guldeford
  • AURIFABER - Orfeur, an ancient name in *Cumberland
  • de AURILLA - Overall
  • de AUTRICO - d'Auxerre; Oxier
  • de AYNECURIA - Daincourt; Deyncourt
  • de BA;BAA;BAHA - Baugh
  • BACCHUS - Backhouse
  • de BADA - Bath
  • de BAILOLIO - Baliol
  • de BAJOCIS - de Bayeux;Bews;Baines
  • de ABLLIO - Bailey
  • cum BARBA - Witheberd;Beard
  • BARBATUS - Barbet;Barbey
  • BARDULFUS - Bardolph
  • de BARRA - de la Barre;de Barre
  • BARRARIUS - Le Barrer;Le Barrier
  • de BATONIA - Bath
  • de BAUDRIBOSCO - Boldrewood
  • de BEEUILLA - Beville;Beavill
  • de BELESMO - de Belesme
  • de BELLA AQUA - de Bealeawe;Bellew
  • de BELLA CAMERA - Belchambers
  • de BELLA FAGO - de Bealfo;Beaufoe;Belfou
  • de BELLA FIDE - de Beaufoy
  • de BELLA VILLA - Belville
  • de BELLO ALNETO - Bellany
  • de BELLO CAMPO - de Belcamp; Beauchamp
    Baron Beauchamp
    The titles Baron Beauchamp and Viscount Beauchamp have been created several times throughout English and British history. There is still an extant Viscountcy of Beauchamp, held by the Marquesses of Hertford.-Beauchamp family:...

  • de BELLO CAPITE - Beauchief
  • de BELLA FOCO - Beaufeu
  • de BELLO LOCO - Beaulieu;Bewley;Bowley
  • de BELLO MANSO - Beaumains;Beaumeis
  • de BELLO MARISCO - Beaumarsh
  • de BELLO MONTE - Beaumont
  • de BELLO PORTU - de Baupere
  • de BELLO PRATO - de Beaupre
  • de BELLO SITU - Bellasis
  • de BELLO VERO - de Beuvar;Beauver
  • de BELLO VISTO - Belvoir
  • de BELLO VISU - de Beauvise;Bevers
  • BENIDICTUS - Bennett
  • de BENEFACTIS - Benfield
  • BENEUOLIS - Benlows
  • BERCARIUS - Le Bercher;Barker
  • BERCATOR - Barker
  • BERENGARIUS - Barringer
  • de Bereuilla - de Berville;Burfield;Berewell
  • de BERNERIIS - Berners
  • de BEUERLACO - Beverley
  • BITURICENSIS - de Bourges
  • de BLANCO PANE - Whitbread
  • de BLAUIA - de Blaye
  • de BLITHODUNO - Blyton
  • de BLOSSEUILLA;BLOSTEUILLA - Bloville;Blofield
  • de BLOYS - Blew;Bligh
  • de BLUNDEUILLA - Blundeville;Blomfield
  • BLUNDUS - Le Blond;Blundel;Blount. (Feminine is Blunda)
  • de BOCEO - de Bocy
  • de BOAUILLA - Bovill
  • de BOLOGNA - Bullen
  • de BONA VILLA - Bonville
  • de BONO DASSATO - Goodrick
  • BONOIUS - Boleyn
  • de BOONIA - de Bohun
  • de BORGEIS - Burges
  • BORLASIUS - Borlace
  • de BASCO - Boys;Boyce;Busk;Wood
  • de BOSCO ARSO - Brentwood
  • de BOSCO - Borhard
  • de BOSEUILLA - Boswell
  • de Botellis - Butler
  • de BOTERELLIS - Botreaux'Bottrel
  • de BOULARIA - de Bollers;Buller
  • de BOUIS VILLA - Bovill
  • de BRAIOSA - de Braose;Brewis;Brewhouse
  • BRITO - Le Bretun
  • de BROILLEIO - de Bruilly;Briley
  • de BRUERIA - Bryer;Briewer;Brewer
  • BRUNELLI - Burnell
  • BRUNUS - Le Brun;Brown
  • de BUCCA - Buck
  • de BUCCA UNCTA - de Bouchaine;Buccointe;Budgen
  • de BUCIS - de Buces;Bouche;Bush
  • BUDELLUS - de Buelles;Boyle
  • de BUESUILA - *Bouville;Bousville;Boseville;Bousfield
  • de BULEMARA - Bulmer
  • de BULIACO - Buisly;Builly
  • de BURCO - de Burgh
  • BURGENSIS - Burges
  • de BURGO - de Burgh;Burke;Bourke
  • de BURGO CHARO - Bourchier
  • BURGUNDIENSIS - de Bourgogne;Bourgoyne;Burgon
  • de BURNAUILLA - Bernwell;Barnwell
  • de BURTANA - Burton
  • de BUSSA VILLA - de *Boseville;Beuzeville;Boscherville
  • de CABANISIO - de Chalbeneys
  • de CADOMO - de Caen;Caine
  • de CADURCIS - de Chaorces;Chaworth
  • CÆCILIUS - Cecil
  • de CAHAGNIS;CAHANNIS - Keynes;Keine;Cain
  • de CAINETO;de CAISNETO;CAINNETO - DE *Quesnay;Chainei;Keynes {?}:Cheyne
  • CALCEARIUS ; Le Chaucier;Chaucer
  • CALIXTUS - Killick
  • de CALLEIO - de Cailly;Cayley
  • CALUINUS - Caffyn; Chaffyn
  • de CALUO MONTE - Chaumond
  • CALUUS - Baud;Bald;Café;Calf;Valver;Callow
  • de CAMERA - Chambers
  • de CAMERACO - Gomery
  • CAMERARIUS - Chamberlayne
  • de CAMPANIA - de Champaigne;Champneys
  • CAMPARNULPHUS;de CAMPO ARNULPHUS - Champernoun
  • de CAMPIS - Descamps;Kemp
  • de CAMPO AUENE - Campdaveine;Otfield
  • de CAMPO BELLO - Campbell
  • de CAMPO FLORIDO;FLORUM - Champfleur
  • de CAMUILLA - Camvil
  • de CANCEIO - Chauncey
  • de CANCELLIS - Chaunceus
  • de CANETO - Cheyney
  • de CANIUETO - Knevitt;Knyvett
  • CANONICUS - Le Chanoin;Cannon
  • de CANTILUPO - de Cantelou;Cauntelow;Cantlow or Cantello
  • CANTOR - Le Chaunter;Singer
  • de CANUILLA - Camville
  • de CAPELLA - Capel
  • CAPELLANUS - Caplin;Chaplin
  • de CAPIS - de Chappes;Cope;Capes
  • CAPITO - rostete;GrosseTeste;Grosthead;Grouthead
  • CAPRA - Chevre
  • de CAPRA - de la Chievre;Cheevers;Chivers
  • de CAPREOLO - Roebuck
  • de CAPREOLOCURIA;de CAPRICURIA - Chevercourt
  • CARACTACUS - Craddock
  • CARADOCUS - Caradock;Cradock
  • CARBONARIUS - Carbonel
  • CARETARIUS - Carter
  • de CARILOCO - Cherlewe
  • de CARISIO - de Cerisy
  • CARNOTENSIS - de Chartres
  • de CARNOTTO - de Carnoth or Crennach
  • de CARO LOCO - Carelieu
  • de CASA DEI - Godshall
  • de CASINETO;Casneto - See CAINETO
  • CASTELLANUS - Catlin
  • de CASTELLIS - de Chasteus
  • de CASTELLO - de Chastell;Castle;Castell;Chatto
  • de CASTELLO MAGNO - Castlemain
  • CASTOR - Bever
  • de CASTRO - Castell
  • de CASTOR NOUO - de Castelnau
  • de CATHEREGE - Catherick;Cartwright
  • de CAUO MONTE - de Caumont;de Chaumont
  • CECUS - Cheke
  • CENOMANNICUS - Maine
  • de CERASO;de CERICIO - de Cerisy;Cherry
  • de CCESTRIA - Chester
  • de CHAHAIGNIS - See de CAHAGNIS
  • de CHAISNETO - See de CAINETO
  • de CHALUENNIO - ce Clavigny;Clabone
  • de CHAORIS;CHAURCIS; De CHAUWURCIS - Chaworth
  • CHELIGREUUS - Killigrew
  • CHENESIS - Chaigne;Le Chesne;Cheyney
  • CHENTICUS - Kentish
  • de CHESNETO - See de CAINETO
  • de CHEURIIS - de Chevrieres;Chaffers
  • CHIRCHEBEIUS - Kirby;Kirby
  • de CHRISTI ECCLESIA - de Crissechirche;de *Christecherche
  • CINOMANNICUS - Maine
  • de CLARA VILLA - Clareville
  • CLARANUS - Clare
  • de CLARIFAGO - Clerfay
  • de CLARIS VALLIBUS - Clerevaux;Clarival
  • de CLARO FAGETO - Clerfay
  • de CLARO MONTE - Clermont;Clermund
  • CLAUIGER - Clavinger
  • de CLAUILLA - de Claville;Cleville
  • de CLAUSO - Close;Class
  • CLERICUS - Clarke;Cleary
  • de CLINTONA - Clinton
  • de CLIUO FORTI - Clifford
  • de COARDA - de Cowert;Coward
  • COCUS - Cook;Coke;Cocks
  • de CODRIA - Cowdry
  • de COISNERIIS - de Coiners
  • de COLAUILLA - Colville
  • de COLDRETO - de Coudray
  • COLLINUS - Knollys
  • de COLLO MEDIO - de Colmieu
  • de COLUMBARIIS - Columbers
  • de CONCHIS - Shelley
  • de CONDUCTU - Chenduit
  • de CONIGERIIS;CONNERIIS- de Coignieres;Conyers
  • CONSTABULARIUS - le Cunestable;Constable
  • CORBALDUS - Corbould
  • de CORCELLA - Churchill
  • de CORMELIIS - de Cormayles;Cormie
  • de CORNIOLA - Cornell
  • de CORNIBIA - Cornwayle
  • CORNTUS - Horn
  • CORUESARIUS - Corveser;Corsar
  • de CORUO SPINÆ - Crowthorn
  • de CRAMAUILLA - Cranwell
  • CRASSUS - Le Gros; Se also "Grassus"
  • de CRAUCUMBA - Crowcombe
  • de CREAUSO - de Grandson;Grandison
  • de CREPITO CORDE - Crevecœur;Crowcour
  • de CRIWA - Crewe
  • CROCUS - Croke
  • de CROTIS - Croot;Grote
  • de CRUCE - Cross
  • CRUCIARIUS - Crocker
  • de CUILLIO - Colley
  • CULLUS de BOUE - Oxenstern
  • de CUMINIS - Comyn
  • CUNETIUS - Kennett
  • de CURCEO;CURCI - de Courcy
  • de CURIA - Delacour;Cure
  • de CURLEIO - Curley
  • de CURUA SPINA - Crowthorn
  • de CUSANCIA - Cussans
  • DACUS - Le Daneis;Dennis
  • DAINCURIENSIS;de AYNECURIA - Daincourt;Deyncourt
  • DALENRIGIUS - Dalegrig
  • DANISCUS - Dennis
  • de DAVIDUILLA - D'Aville;D'Eyville
  • DECANUS - Dean
  • DEUON' - Le Deveneis;Devenish
  • DIABOLUS - Dayville;De Eyville;Deeble;Dibble
  • de DICETO - de Disci;Diss
  • DISPENSARIUS;DISPENSATOR;DISPENSERIUS - Le *Despenser;Spencer
  • de DIUA - Dive;Dives;Deaves
  • DIUITIUS- Riche
  • DODERIGUS - Dodderidge
  • de DOITO - Dwight;Brook
  • de DOUERA - de Douvres;Dover
  • DRACO - Drake;Drage
  • de DROCIS - de Dreux;Drew
  • DROGO - Drew
  • DUCHTIUS - Doughty
  • de DUMOUILLA - Domville;Dunville
  • de DUNA - Don;Down
  • de DUNSETANUILLA - Dunstanvill
  • DURANDUS - Durrant,Durand
  • DURIDENTIS - Duredens;Durdana
  • DUTENTIUS - Doughty
  • DUX - Ducy;Duck;Duke
  • EASTERLINGUS - Stradling
  • de EBROICUS; de EBROIS - D'Evreux
  • ECCLESIENSIS - Churche
  • ELISEUS - Ellis
  • ELYOTA - Elliott
  • de ERICETO - Briewer
  • de ERM´ENOLDA VILLA - d'Ermenonville
  • de ERMENTERIIS - Darmenters
  • ERNALDUS - Ernaut;Arnold
  • de EROLICTO - Erliche
  • de ESCALERIIS - de Escales;Scalers;Scales
  • de ESCARDEUILLA - Scarvell
  • de Escouilla - Escoville;Schofield;Scovel
  • de ESCRUPA - Le Scrope;Scrope
  • ESPERUERIUS - Le Sperver;Sparver
  • de ESSARTIS - Essart;Sart
  • de Esseleia - Ashley
  • de ESTLEGA;ESTLEIA - Astley or Estley
  • EUDO - Eade;Eades
  • EXTRANEUS; de EXTRANEO - L'Estrange;Strange
  • FABER - Lefevre
  • FACETUS -Le Facet
  • de FAGO - Beech;Beecher;Fagge
  • de FAIA - de Fai;Fay
  • FALCONARIUS - Falkner;Fachney
  • FALKASIUS - Fawkes
  • FALTERELLUS - Futerel;Fewtrell
  • FANTASMA - Fantosme
  • FAUCUS - Folkes;Vaux
  • FAUKESIUS - Fawkes
  • FERCHARDUS - Farquahr;Forker
  • FERDINANDUS - Farrant
  • FERRARRII - Ferre
  • de FERRARIIS - Ferrars;Ferrier
  • FERRATUS - Fairy;Ferrie
  • FIBER - Bever
  • FIEREBRACHIUS - Ferbras
  • de FIERUILLA - Fierville;Fairfield
  • de Ffiliceto - Fernham
  • FILIUS ADELINI - Fitz-Adelin;Edlin
  • FILIUS ALANI - Fitz-Alan
  • FILIUS ALUREDI - Fitz-Alard;Fitz-Alfred
  • FILIUS AMANDI - Fitz-Amand
  • FILIUS ANDREÆ - Fitz-andrew
  • FILIUS BALDEWINI - Baldwin;Bolderson;Bowdon
  • FILIUS BALDRICI - Baldrey
  • FILIUS BERNARDI - Fitz-Bernard
  • FILIUS BRICIIS - Bryson
  • FILIUS BOGONIS - Bewes
  • FILIUS BRIANI - Fitz-Brian
  • FILIUS COCI - Cookson
  • FILIUS COMITIS - Fitz-Count
  • FILIUS DAUIDIS - Dawson
  • FILIUS DRACONIS - Drake
  • FILIUS DRAGONIS - Drewes;Drew
  • FILIUS EDMUNDI - Edmunds
  • FILIUS EUSTACHII - Fitz-Eustace
  • FILIUS FULCONIS - Fitz-Fulk;Faulke
  • FILIUS GALFRIDI - Fits-Geoffry
  • FILIUS GERARDI - Fitz-Gerrard
  • FILIUS GILLEBERTI - Fitz-Gilbert
  • FILIUS GODESCALLI - Godshall
  • FILIUS GUALTERI - Fitzwalter;Walters
  • FILIUS GUARINI - Fitz-Warren
  • FILIUS GUIDONIS - Fitz-Guy;Fitzwith
  • FILIUS GULIELMI - Fitz-*William;Williamson;Williams
  • FILIUS HAMONIS - Fitz-Hamon;Hammond;Hampson
  • FILIUS HARDINGI - Fitz-Hardinge
  • FILIUS HENRICI - Fitz-Henry;Harrison;Harris
  • FILIUS HERBERTI - Fitz-Herberti
  • FILIUS HUGONIS - Fitz-*Hugh;Hughes;Hewes;Hewish;Hewson
  • FILIUS HUMFREDI - Fitz-Humphrey;Humphreys
  • FILIUS IBOTÆ - Ibbottson;Ebison
  • FILIUS ISAAC - Isaacs;Higgins;Higginson;Hickson
  • FILIUS JACOBI - Fitz-James;Jameson
  • FILIUS JOHANNIS - Fitz-John;Johnson;Jones
  • FILIUS KATERINA - Katlyson;Cattlin
  • FILIUS LAURENTII - Lawson
  • FILIUS LETITIÆ - Lettson
  • FILIUS LUCÆ - Fitz-Lucas
  • FILIUS LUCIÆ - Lucy
  • FILIUS MAURICII - Fitz-Maurice;Morison
  • FILIUS MICHAELIS - Fitz-Michael
  • FILIUS NICOLAI - Fitz-Nichol;Nicholson;Nichols
  • FILIUS ODONIS - Fitz-Otes
  • FILIUS OLIUERI - Fitz-Oliver
  • FILIUS OSBURNI - Fitz-Osburn
  • FILIUS OSMONDI - Fitx-Osmond
  • FILIUS OTHONIS or OTTONIS - Fitz-Otes
  • FILIUS PAGANI - Fitz-Pain
  • FILIUS PATRICII - Fitz-Patrick
  • FILIUS PETRI - Fitz Peter;Peterson;Peters
  • FILIUS PHILIPPI - Phillips;Phipps;Phipson
  • FILIUS RADULFI - Fitz-Ralph;Raphson
  • FILIUS REGINALDI - Fitz-Raynold;Reynolds
  • FILIUS RICARDI - Fitz-*Richard;Richardson;Richards
  • FILIUS ROBERTI - Fitz-*Roberst;Robertson;Roberts;Robinson
  • FILIUS ROGERI - Fitz-Rogers;Rogerson;Rogers
  • FILIUS SAHERI - Searson
  • FILIUS SIMONIS - Fitz-Simon;Simonds
  • FILIUS STEPHANI - Fitz-*Stephen;Stephenson;Stephens;Stiffin
  • FILIUS SUANI - Swainson
  • FILIUS THOME - Fitz-Thomas;Thompson
  • FILIUS VIDUÆ - Widdowson
  • FILIUS WALTERI - Fitz-walter;Walters;Waters;Watson;Watts
  • FILIUS WARINI - Fitz-Warin-Warisno
  • de FIRMITATE - de la Ferté
  • de FLAMMAUILLA - de Flamville
  • FLANDRENSIS - Flemyng
  • FLAUILLUS - Flavell
  • FLAUUS - Blund;Blount;Fleuez
  • FLECHARIUS - Le Flechier;Fletcher
  • FLORUS - Flowers
  • de FLUCTIBUS - Flood
  • de FOLIA - Foley
  • de FOLIIS - Foulis
  • de FONTE - Font;Faunt
  • de FONTE AUSTRALI - Southwell
  • de FONTE EBRALDI - Fontevraud
  • de FONTE LIMPIDO - Sherburn
  • de FONTIBUS - Wells
  • de FORDA - Ford
  • FORESTARIUS - Forester;Foster
  • de FORGIA - de la Forge
  • FORMANNUS - Formes
  • de FORNELLIS - de Furnell
  • de FORTI SCUTO - Fortescue
  • de FORTIBUS - de Fort;de Forz;Force
  • de FOSSA NOUA - Newdike
  • de FRAISNETO;FRAXINETO - de Fraine;du Fresne
  • de FRANCHEUILLA - de Freville
  • FRANCUS - Franks
  • de FRAXINO - del Freine;Frean;Ashe
  • FRESCOBURNUS - Freshburne
  • de FREUILLA - Fretchville;Freville
  • de FRIGIDO MANTELLO - Freemantle
  • de FRIGIDO Monte - de Fremond;Fremont
  • de FRISCA VILLA - *Fretchville;Freville;Freshfield
  • de FRISCO MARISCO - Freshmarsh
  • FULCHERII - Fulcher
  • de FULGERIIS - de Fougeres;de Filgeriis;Fulcher
  • de FURNELLIS - Furneaux;Furness
  • de GAIO - Gai;Gay;Jay
  • de GANDANO ;GANDAUENSIS - Gaunt
  • GANTERIUS - Glover
  • de GARDAROBA - Wardroper
  • de GARDINIS - Garden
  • GARNERUS - Guarnier;Warner
  • de GASCONIA - Gascoyne
  • de GAWEIA - Gower
  • de GEINUILA - de Geynville
  • de GENEUA - de Geneville
  • de GENISTETO - Bromfield
  • de GERARDI - Greville;Graville
  • GERUASIUS - Gerveis;Jarvis;Jervis
  • GIOUANUS - Young
  • de GIRBIRTI VILLA - de Gerberville
  • de GISNETO - de Gisney;Gynney
  • de GISORTIO - de Gisors
  • de GLANUILLA - Glanvil
  • GOBIO - Gudgeon
  • de GORNIACO - Gorney;Gurney
  • GOSSELINUS - Gosling
  • de GOUHERIA - Gower
  • GRAMMATICUS - Grammer
  • de GRANA - Graine;Grain
  • de GRANAUILLA;GREENUILLA - Greenvil or Grenville
  • de GRANDAUILLA - Granvile
  • de GRANDISONO - de Graunson;Grandison
  • GRANDIS or MAGNUS VENATOR - Grosvenor
  • GRANDUS - Le Grand;Graunt;Grant
  • GRANETARIUS - Grenet
  • de GRANGIA - Grainge
  • GRANGIARIUS - Grainger
  • de GRANO ORDEI;GRANUM ORDEI - Greindorge
  • GRASSUS - Le Gras;Grace;Le Gros
  • de GRAUA - de la Grave;Graves
  • de GRENDONA - Greendon
  • de GRENTO - Grente;Grinde
  • de GREYLIACO - de Greilly;Grelley
  • GRIMBALDI - Grimbaud
  • de GRINNOSA VILLA - de Grinville
  • de GRIPERIA - Gripper
  • GRISIUS - Le Grice
  • de GROSSO - de Gruce;Gross
  • de GROSSO MONTE - Grosmond;Grismond
  • de GROSSO VENATORE - Grosvenor
  • GROSSUS - Le Gros
  • GROTIUS - Grose
  • de GRUE - Crane
  • GUARIN - Guerin
  • GUIDO - Guy;Gee
  • de GUIDOUILLA - Wydville;Wyville
  • GULAFFRA - Golofre;Golfer;Gulfer
  • de GUNDEUILLA - Gonville
  • de GUNTHERI SYLUA - Gunter
  • de GUTI - del Got
  • de HAIA - de la Haye;Hay
  • de HAMBEIA - Hamby;Hanby
  • de HANOIA - de Henau;Hanway
  • de HANTONA - Hanton;Hampton
  • de HARELA - Harkley
  • de HARICURIA - Harcourt;Harecourt
  • HASTIFRAGUS - Brakespere
  • HAUARDUS - Howard
  • de HAULA - DE LA Hale;Hall;Hawley
  • de HAYA - de la Haye;Hay
  • HERMITA - Armit
  • HERES - Le Hare;Eyre
  • HERNUEUS - Harvey
  • HIERONYMUS - Jerome;Jerram
  • de HIRUNDINE - Arundel
  • HISPANIOLUS - Aspinall
  • de HOGA - de la Hoge;Hogg
  • de HOLMO - Holmes
  • de HOSATA;de HOSA - de la Hose;de la Huse
  • HOSATUS - Hose;Huese;Hussey
  • HOWARDUS - Howard
  • HUGO - Hook
  • HUSATUS;HUSSATUS - Hoese;huese;hussey
  • de ILLERIIS - de St. Hellier;Hillier
  • INFANS - L'Enfant;Child
  • de INGANIA - Engaine
  • de INSULA - Lisle
  • de INSULA BONA - Lislebone
  • de INSULA FONTIS - Lilburne
  • de IPRA - de Ipres
  • de ISPANIA - Spain
  • de JAUNA - Janeway
  • JOANNIS - Johnson
  • de JOANNIS VILLA - de *Jehanville;Geneville;Ganville
  • JOANNUS - Jones
  • JODOCUS - Joice
  • JUUENIS - Lejeune;Young
  • de KAHAGNIS - Keynes
  • de KAINETO;de KAISNETO;de KEYNETO - *Chesney;Cheney;Keynes
  • KENTESIUS - Le Kenties;Kentish
  • de KIMA;KYMA - de Kyme;Keymer
  • de LACELLA - Lascales;Lacelles
  • de LACU - de Lake;Lake
  • de LADA - de la Lade
  • de LÆTO LOCO - Lettley
  • de LA MARA - Delamare
  • de Laga - Lee;Lea;Leigh
  • LAMBARDUS - Lambard or Lambert
  • de LANDAS - de la Lande;Land
  • de LANDALIS - Landal;Landels
  • de LANGDONA ;LANDONA - Langdon
  • LARDERARIUS - Lardenier;Lardner
  • de LARGO - Large
  • LATIMARIUS;Latinarius - Latimer;Latomer
  • de LATO CAMPO - Bradfield
  • de LATO VADO - Bradford
  • de LATO PEDE - Braidfoot
  • LAUREMARIUS - Lorimer
  • de LECHA - Leke
  • de LEGA - Leigh;Lee
  • LEGATUS - Leggatt
  • de LEICA - Leke
  • de LEICESTRIA - Lester
  • LESLÆUS - Leslie
  • LEUCHENORIUS - Lewkin;Lewknor
  • de LEXINTUNA - Lexington
  • de LEZINIACO - de Lezinan
  • de LIBERATIONE - Liverance
  • de LIENTICURIA - de Liancourt
  • de LIMESIA - Limsie
  • de Linna - Linne
  • de LISORIIS;LISORIS - Lizurs;Lisors
  • de LOCO FRUMENTI - Whethamstede
  • de LOGIIS - Lodge
  • de LONGA SPATHA - Longespee
  • de LONGA VILLA - *Longueville;Longville;Longfellow
  • de LONGO CAMPO - Longchamp;Longshanks
  • de LONGO PRATO - Longmede
  • LOTHARINGIUS - Le Loreyne;Lorraine;Lorriner
  • LOTHARIUS - Lowther
  • de LUCCEIO - Lucy;Lewsey
  • LUDOUICUS - de Lues;Lewis
  • de LUERA - Lower
  • de LUNDA - Lund
  • de LUPELLIS;LUPELLUS - Lovel
  • LUPUS - Le Loup;Love;Loo;Woolf
  • de LUSORIIS - Lusher
  • de LUXA - De Los
  • MACER - Le Meyre
  • MACNISIUS - Mackness
  • de MADERIACO - de Mezieres;Measures
  • de MAGNA PENA - de Magne Peoine;Moneypenny;Mappin
  • de MAGNA VILLA - Mandeville;Mannwille
  • de MAGNO MONTE - Grosmount or Groumount
  • MAGNUS VENATOR - Grosvenor
  • MAINFELINUS - Meinfeuin
  • de MAINO - Maine;Maoun
  • de MALA BISSA - de Malebisse;de Malebiche
  • de MALA FIDE - Maufe
  • de MALA HERBA - Malherbe
  • de MALA OPERA - Mallop
  • de MALA PLATEA - Malpas
  • de MALA TERRA - Mauland;Eveland
  • de MALA VILLA - Melville
  • de MALCHENCEIO - Munchensy
  • MALCONDUCTUS - Malduit;Mauduit
  • MALEDOCTUS - Maudoit
  • MALEDUETUS - Malduit;Mauduit
  • MALISIUS - Malis
  • de MALIS MANIBUS - Malmains
  • de MALIS OPERIBUS - Maloor
  • de MALO LEONE - Mauleon
  • de MALO CONDUCTU - Malduit
  • de MALA DOMO - de Maubusson
  • de MALO LACU - Mauley
  • de MALO VICINO;MALUS VACINUS - *Malveisin;Malvoisin;Mavesyn;Mason
  • de MALO VISU - Malveya
  • de MALPASSU - Malpas
  • MALUS CATALUS - Malcael;Malchael;Malchein;Machel
  • MALUS LEPORARIUS - Maleverer;Mallieure;Mallyvery
  • MALUS LUPELLUS - Maulovel;Mallovel
  • de MONDAUILLA - Mandeville;Manneville
  • de MANERIIS - de Menguse;Menzies;Manners
  • de MANIBUS - de Mans
  • de MANNAUILLA - Mandeville;Manhill;Manwell
  • de MARA - Mare;Marre
  • de MARCHIA - de La Marche;March
  • de MARCI VALLIBUS - Martival
  • de MARCO - Mark
  • MARESCALLUS - Marshal or Le Marshal;Merrishaw
  • de MARINIS - Maryon;Marwin
  • de MARISCO - del Mareis;Marsh
  • MARRUGLARIUS - Le Marler
  • de MARTIUALLIS - *Martivaux;Martival;Martivast;Martwas
  • de MASURA - Le Massor;Measor
  • MAUCLERUS - Lacklatin
  • MAURENCIACUS - de Montmorency
  • de MAURITANIA - de Morteine
  • de MADIA VILLA - Middleton
  • MEDICUS - Leech
  • de MEDUANA - Maine;Mayenne
  • de MELSA - de Meaulx;Meux;Mews
  • MENTULAMANUS - "Toulmaine alias Hancocke"
  • de MERCATO - de Marche;March
  • MERCATOR - Mercer
  • de MESLERIIS;de MEULERIIS - Mellers
  • de MICENIS - Meschines
  • MILESIUS;MILETUS - Miles
  • de MINERIIS - Miners
  • de MINORIIS - Minours
  • de MOELIS - de Moelles or Moels;Mills
  • MOLENDINARIUS - Miller;Milner
  • de MOLENDINIS - Molines
  • de MOLIS - de Moelles or Loels;Mills
  • MONACHUS - Le Moigne;Monk
  • de MONASTERIIS - Musters;Masters
  • de MONCELLIS - Monceaux;Monson;Monser
  • de MONEMUTHA - Monmouth
  • de MONTANA - de Montaignes;de Montaigne;Mountain
  • de MONTE - Mount;Mont
  • de MONTE ACUTO - Montacute;Montague
  • de MONTE ALTO - Montalt;Munhaut;Moald;Maulde
  • de MONTE AQUILÆ - Mounteagle
  • de MONTE BEGONIS - Mountbegon
  • de MONTE BRITONUM - de Montbreton
  • de MONTE CANASIO;CANESIO;CANISIO - Monbtchesney;Munchensi
  • de MONTE DEI - Mundy
  • de MONTE DUBLELLI - de Mont Dubleaux
  • de MONTE FIXO - Montfitchet;Munfitchet
  • de MONTE FLORUM - de Monteflour
  • de MONTE FORTI - Montfort
  • de MONTE GAII;de MONTE GAUDII - Montjoy;Mungy
  • de MONTE GOMERICO - Montgomery
  • de MONTE HERMERII - Monthermer
  • de MONTE JOUIS - Montjoy
  • de MONTE KANESIO - Montchensey;Munchensi
  • de MONTE MARISCO - Montmorency
  • de MONTE MARTINI - de Montmartre
  • de MONTE MORACI;MORENTIO - Montmorency
  • de MONTE PESSONO;de MONTE PESGULANO - Montpinzon;Mompesson
  • de MONTE PISSONIS; de MONTE PISSORIS - Montpinzon;Mompesson
  • de MONTE REUELLI - Monterville
  • de MORAUIA - Moray;Murray
  • de MORISCO - Moore
  • de MORTIUALLIS - de Martivaux
  • de MORTUO MARI - Mortimer
  • de MOTA - de La Motte
  • de MOUBRAIA - Mowbray
  • de MUCHELEGATA - Micklegate
  • de MUMBRAIO - Mowbray
  • MURDACUS - Murdoch
  • AD MURUM - Walton
  • de MUSEA - Mus;Mosse
  • de MUSCO CAMPO - Musechamp
  • MUSTELA - Musteile
  • NAPPATOR - Le Naper;Napier
  • de NASO - de Nes;Ness
  • NEPOS - Le Neve
  • NEQUAM - Neckham
  • de NEUILLA - Nevil
  • NIGELLUS - Niele;Neal
  • NIGEROCULUS - Blackey
  • de NODARIIS;NODORIIS - Nowres
  • NORENSIS - Noreis;Nordman;Norman
  • NORMANDUS - Norman
  • NORRISCUS - Norris;Nurse
  • de NORUICO - Norwich
  • de NOUA TERRA - Newland
  • de NOUA UILLA - Neufville;Neville;Newell
  • de NOUIOMO - Noon
  • de NOUO BURGO - Newburgh;Newborough
  • de NOUO CASTELLOM - Newcastle
  • de NOUO FORE - de Neumarche;Newmarch
  • de NOUO LOCO - Newark
  • de NOUO MERCATO - de Neumarche;Newmarch
  • de NOUO OPPIDO - Newton
  • NOUUS - Newman
  • NOUUS HOMO - Newman
  • NUTRICIUS - Nurse
  • de OBURUILLA - de Abbeville;Appeville
  • de OILEIO;OILI;OILIUS - D'Oylu;Olley
  • de OMNIBUS SANCTIS - Toussaint
  • de ORTIACO - del Ortyay;Lorty;
  • OSTIARIUS - Le Huissier;Usher;Durward (Scotch)
  • de OUGHTIA - Doughty
  • de PACCEIO - de Pasci;Pacy
  • PACCEUS - Pace
  • PAGANELLUS - Pagnell;Painel;Paynell
  • PAGANUS - Payne
  • PALMARIUS - Le Paumier;Palmer
  • PALMIGER - Palmer
  • de PALO - del Pau
  • de Palude - Puddle;Marsh
  • de PAREO - Park;Perck
  • PARMENTARIUS - Parmenter;Taylor
  • de PARUA TARRI - Torel;Tyrrel
  • de PARUA VILLE - Littleton
  • PARUUS - Le Petit;Petty
  • de PASCUO LAPIDOSO - Stanley
  • de PAUILLIACO;de PAULIACO - Pavley
  • PECCATUM;de PECCATO;PECCATUS - *Peche;Pecche;Pecke
  • de PEDE PLANCO - Pauncefoot
  • PEITONUS - Peyton
  • PELLIPARIUS - Skinner
  • PENTECOSTES - Wytesoneday
  • PERFECTUS - Parfey;Parfitt
  • de PERIIS - Piers
  • de PERONA - Perowne
  • de PERRARIIS - Perrers
  • de PETRA - Petre
  • de PETRAPONTE;PETROPONTO - Peirrepont;Perpoint
  • PEUERELLUS - Peverell
  • PHISCERUS - Fisher
  • de PICTAIIA;PICTAUIENNSIS - Peytevin;Peyto;Peto
  • PINCERNA - Butler
  • de PINIBUS - Dupin
  • de PINU - Pine;Pyne
  • PIPERELLUS - Pepperell;Peverell
  • PISCATOR - Fisher
  • de PISCE;de PISCIBUS - Fish
  • de PISSIACO - Poysey
  • PLACIDUS - Placett
  • de PLANCA - De la Planche
  • de PLANTAGENTISTA - Plantagenent
  • de PLESSETIS;PLESSEIZ - de *Pleseys;Plesseiz;Plessez;Plaiz;Place
  • de PODIO - des Pus
  • POHERIUS - Puherius
  • de POLA - de la Pole
  • de POLEIO - Poley
  • POLUS - Pole;Poole
  • de POMARIO - Appleyard
  • PONDERATOR - Le Balauncer
  • de PONTE - Bridge
  • de PONTE FRACTO - Pomfrey
  • AD PONTEM - Atte Brigge;Brigge;Paunton
  • de PONTIBUS - Bridgeman;Bridges
  • de PONTISSARA;PONTISSERA -Sawbridge;pontoise;Pontys
  • PONTIUS - Pons;Pounce
  • PORCARIUS - Le Porcher
  • de PORCELLIS - Purcell
  • AD PORTAM - Porter
  • POTTARIUS - Potter
  • le POURE - Power
  • POUTENEIUS - Poultney
  • de PRAELLIS - See also "de PRAERIIS"
  • PRÆPOSITUS - Prevot
  • de PRAERIIS - Praeres;Prahors
  • de PRATELLIS - des *Pres;Despreaux;Diprose;Meadows
  • de PRATIS - Praty;Prettie
  • de PRATO - Dupre;Mead;Pratt
  • de PRECARIIS - See also "de PRAERIIS"
  • PRECO - Price
  • PUHERIUS;PUHERUS - Le Poher;Poer
  • de PUILLETA - Paulet
  • de PULCHRO CAPELLITIO - Fairfax
  • PULETARIUS - Le Poleter;Poulter
  • PUNTIS - Pons;Pounce
  • de PURCELLIS - Purcell
  • de PUTEACO - de Pusat;Pudsey;Pusev
  • de PUTEIS - Pittes
  • de PUTEO - Pitt
  • de PYSANIS - de Pessaigne
  • QUASPATRICIUS - Gospatric
  • RAALEGA - Ralegh
  • de RADENEIO - de Reyney;Rodney
  • de RADEONA - Rodney
  • de RADIO - Raye
  • RAGOTUS - Le Raggide;Raggett
  • de RAIMIS - de Reimes
  • de RALEGA - Ralegh
  • de REA - de Ree;Ray
  • de REDUERIIS - Rivers
  • REGINALDI - Renaud;Reynolds
  • REGINALDUS - Reynold
  • REGIOSYLUANUS - Kingswood
  • REINARDUS - Rayner;Reyner
  • RENOLDUS - Reynold
  • REX - King;Reeks
  • RHESEUS - Ap Rhys;Ap Rice;Price
  • de RIA - de Rie;Rye
  • de RICO MONTE - Richmond
  • RIGIDIUS - Rivers
  • de RIPERIA;RIPARIIS;RIUERIA;RIUERIIS - de *Ripers;Rivers;Driver
  • ROBERTIADES - Roberts
  • de ROCA - Rock
  • de RODENEIA - Rodney
  • RODERICUS - Rothery
  • de RODOLIO - de Roel;Rolle
  • de ROILLIO - de Roilli;Reuilly;Rowley
  • de ROKA - Rock
  • de ROKELA - Rockley
  • de ROMELIOLO - de Romilli;Romilly;Rumley
  • ROTARIUS - Wheeler;Rutter
  • de ROTIS - Rote;Roots
  • de ROTUNDO;ROTUNDUS - Ronde;Round;Rounce
  • de RUA - Rue
  • de RUBEO MONTE - Rougemont
  • de RUBRA MANU - Redmayne
  • de RUBRA SPATHA - Rospear;Rooper;Roper
  • de RUBRO CLIUO - Radcliffe
  • de RUDA - Routh
  • de RUELLA - Ruel;Rule
  • RUFFUS;RUFUS - Le Roux;Le Rus;Rous;Ruff
  • de RUGEHALA - Rugeley;Ruggles
  • de RUPE - de la Roche;Roche;Droope;Drope;Roek
  • de RUPE CAUARDI - de Rochechouard
  • de RUPE FORTI - Rochfort
  • de RUPE SCISSA - Cutcliffe
  • de Rupella - de la Rochelle;Rokell;Roupell
  • de RUPERIA - {See also RUPETRA}
  • de RUPETRA - de Rupierre;Rooper;Roper Notes
  • de RUPIBUS;RUPINUS - Roche;Rock
  • de SABAUDIA - Savoy
  • de SACCA VILLA - Sackville
  • de SACEIO - de Sace;de Sauce
  • de SACHEUILLA - de Sacquenville;Soucheville;Sackville
  • de SACRA FAGO - Hollebech;Holbeach
  • de SACRA QUERCU - Holyoak
  • de SACRO BOSCO - Holywood
  • de SACRO FONTE - Holybrook;Holbrook
  • SAGITTARIUS - Archer
  • de SAIO - Say
  • de SAKENUILLA - Sackville
  • de SALCETO - Saucey
  • de SALCHAUILLA - Salkeld
  • de SALICOSA MARA - Wilmore
  • de SALICOSA VENA - Salvein
  • de SALSO MARISCO - Saumarez;Saltmarsh
  • de SALTU CAPELLÆ - Sacheverel
  • de SALTU LACTEO - Melkeley
  • SALUAGIUS - Savage
  • SANCHO - Sankey
  • de SANETA BARBA or BARBARA - Senbarb;Simberb
  • de SANCTA CLARA - St. Clare;Sinclair
  • de SANCTA CRUCE - St. Croix;Cross
  • de SANCTA ERMINA - Armine
  • de SANCTA FIDE - St. Faith;Faith;Fiddes
  • de SANCTA GENEUEFA - Jeneway
  • de SANCTA TERRA - Holyland
  • de SANCTA VILLA - Sent Vile;Sainneville
  • de SANCTO ALBANO - St. Alban
  • de SANCTO ALBINO - Seyntabyn;St. Aubyn
  • de SANCTO ALEMONDO - Salmon
  • de SANCTO AMANDO - St. Amand;Samand
  • de SANCTO AUDEMARO - St. Omer
  • de SANCTO AUDOENO - St. Owen
  • de SANCTO BRICIO - Brice
  • de SANCTO CINERINO - Chinnery
  • de SANCTO CLARO - Senclere;Sinclair
  • de SANCTO CLAUDO - Clodd;Clode
  • de SANCTO CRISPINO - Crispin;Crisp
  • de SANCTO DIONYSIO - Dennis
  • de SANCTO EDMUNDO - Edmunds
  • de SANCTO EDOLPHO - Stydolph
  • de SANCTO EDWARDO - Edwards
  • de SANCTO EUSTACIO - Stacey
  • de SANCTO GELASIO - Singlis
  • de SANCTO GERMANO - Germain
  • de SANCTO HILARIO - Hillary
  • de SANCTO JOHANNE - St. John;Singen
  • de SANCTO JUDOCO - de Joyeuse;Jorz;Joyce
  • de SANCTO LAUDO; de SANCTO LODO - St. Laud;Sentlo;Senlo
  • de SANCTO LEODEGARIO - St. Ledger;Sallenger;Ledger
  • de SANCTO LEONARDO - Lennard
  • de SANCTO LIZIO - St. Lys;Senliz
  • de SANCTO LUPO - Sentlow
  • de SANCTO LUZO - Sentluke
  • de SANCTO MARTINO - de Danmartin;Semarton;Martin
  • de SANCTO MAURISIO - St. Morris
  • de SANCTO MAURO - St. Maur
  • de SANCTO MEDARDO - Semark
  • de SANCTO NEOTO - Sennett
  • de SANCTO OLAUO - Toly
  • de SANCTO PAULO - Sampol;Semple
  • de SANCTO PETRO - Sampier;Semper;Symper
  • de SANCTO PHILEBERTO - Filbert
  • de SANCTO QUINTINO - St. Quintin
  • de SANCTO REMIGIO - de St. Remy;Remy
  • de SANCTO SERENNIO - Chinnery
  • de SANCTO VEDASTO - Foster
  • de SANCTO VIGORE - Vygour
  • de SANCTO WALLERICO - St. Wallere;Waller
  • de SANDUICO - Sandwich
  • SAPIENS - Le Sage
  • SARACENUS - Sarazin;Sarson
  • SARTORIUS - Sartoris;Sartres
  • SAUAGIUS - Savage
  • SAUARICUS - Savory
  • de SAUINIACO - de Savigny;Saveney
  • de SAXO FERRATO - Ironston;Ironzon
  • de SCALARIIS - de Scaliers;Scales
  • de SCOLEIO - Scully
  • de SCURIS - LESCURES
  • de SEINLICIO;SENLYCIO - de Seinliz
  • de SELLA - de Salle;Sale
  • SENESCALLUS - Stewart;Stuart
  • de SEPTEM HIDIS - de Sethides
  • de SEPTEM VALLIBUS - de Setvaux
  • de SEPTEM VANNIS - Setvans
  • SERLO - Searle
  • de SEUECURDA - Seacourt
  • SEWALLUS - Sewell
  • de SICCA VILLA - de Secheville;de *Sacheville;Satchwell;Sackville
  • de SIDEWUILLA - Sidwell
  • SILUANUS - Silvain;Salvin
  • SINE AUERIO - Sanzaver
  • SIWARDUS - Seward
  • de SMALAUILLA - {See MALAUILLA}
  • de SOLA - Sole
  • de SOLARIIS - Solers
  • SOPHOCARDIUS - Wiseheart
  • de SPADA - Speed;Speedy
  • de SPINETO - Spine;Spinney
  • de STAGNO - Stanhow;Poole;Pond
  • de STAMPIS - d'Estampes;Stamp
  • de STELLA - Stel;Steele
  • STEPHANIDES - Fitz Stephen
  • STIGANAUS - Stiggins
  • de STIPITE SICCO - de la Zouche
  • de STOTEUILLA - d'Estoteville;Stutfield
  • STRABO - Louch
  • de STRATAUILLA - d'Estréeville;Streatfield
  • de STRATONA - Stretton
  • SUB NEMORE - Underwood
  • de SUDBURIA - Sudbury
  • de SUILLEIO - de Suilli;Sully
  • SUPER TYSAM - Surteys;Surtees
  • de SUREUILLA - Surville;Sherville
  • de SUTHLEIA;SUTLEIA - Suthley;Sudley
  • de SYLUA - Weld
  • SYLUANECTENSIS - Seyton
  • de TABERNA - Taverner
  • TALLIATOR - Taylor
  • de TANAIA - Taney
  • de TANCO - de Tani;Tawney
  • de TANKARDI VILLA - Tankerville
  • TANNATOR - Le Tanur;Tanner
  • TAXO - Tesson;Tyson
  • TELARIUS - Taylor;Tylor
  • de TERTIA MANU - Tremayne
  • TEUTONICUS - Tyes;Teys
  • THAMARIUS - Thame;Tame
  • de THANETO - Thanet;Tanet;Tent
  • THEOBALDUS - Tipple
  • THEODORICUS - Terry;Derrick
  • de THORNAMUSA - Torneumue
  • de TIRNISCO - de Terouisch
  • de TOLETA - Tollitt;Tullet
  • de TONA - Tonny;Tony
  • de TORTO - Turt
  • de TOSCA - Tosh
  • de TRIBUS MINETIS - Treminet
  • de TRUBLEUILLA - Troubleville;Turberville
  • de TULKA - Tuke;Toke
  • de TURBIDA VILLA - Turberville
  • TURCHETILLUS - Turchill
  • de TURPI VADO - Fulford
  • de TURRI - Towers;Torry
  • de TURRIBUS - de Turs;de Tours
  • de TYLIA - Tille;Tyley
  • de UFFINTONA - Ufton
  • de UMBROSA QUERCU - Dimoak;Dimock
  • de URTIACO - de Lorty;Lort;Hort
  • de USSEIO - Ducie
  • USUSMARE - Hussey
  • de VAACEIO - de Vaacey;Vaizey
  • VACA - de la Wae;Wake
  • VACARIUS - Vacher;Levaque;Livock
  • de VACCARIA - Vicary;Vickery
  • de VADA - Wade
  • de VADO BOUM - Oxford
  • de VADO SAXI - Stanford
  • VALCHELINUS - Wakelin
  • de VALEIO - de Valle;Wall
  • de VALENCIA - Valence
  • VALESIUS - Walsh
  • de VALLE - Wale;Wall
  • de VALLE TORTA - Valetor;Vautort
  • de VALLIBUS - de Vals;Vaux
  • de VALLO - Wall
  • de VALONIIS - de Valognes;Valoines
  • de VALUINIS - Wauwain;Walwyn
  • de VANNARIO - Le Vanner
  • de VARAUILLA - Varvill;Warwell
  • VARDÆUS - Ward
  • VELOX - Swift;Fogarty
  • VENATOR - Vendore;Venour
  • de VENETIA - Venesse
  • de VERINEIO - de Verigny;Verney
  • de VERNACO - de Vernai;Ferney
  • de VESCI - Vessey
  • de VETERE AULA - Oldhall;Oldham
  • de VETERE PONTE - Vieuxpont;Vipont;Veepount
  • de VETULA - Vale;Viel;Vyel
  • de VETULIS - de Vielles
  • VETULUS - Viel
  • de VICARIIS - Viccars
  • VICINUS - Le Veysin
  • de VICO - de Vicques;Vick
  • VIDULATOR - Le Vielur
  • de Vigneio - da Vigny;de Wignai
  • de VILLA - Veal
  • de VILLA MAGNA - Mandeville
  • de VILLA MOTA;MOUTA - Wilmot
  • de VILLA TORTA - Croketon
  • de VILLARIIS - Villiers
  • de VINDINO - de Vendome;Phantam
  • de VINO SALUO - Vinsauf
  • de VIRIDI CAMPO - Greenfield
  • de VIRIDI VILLA - Greenville
  • VITULUS - See also "VETULUS"
  • VULPIS - Renard;Rainer
  • VULSÆUS - Wolsey
  • de WACELLIS - Wasel;Vassall
  • WALCHELINUS - Wakelin
  • WALLENSIS - Le Walleis;Wallace
  • de WANCEIO - Wansey
  • de WARENNA - Warren
  • WARENNARIUS - Warrender
  • de WARNEUILLA - Warneville
  • de WARTEUILLA - See also "de WATEUILLA"
  • de WASA - Wace
  • de WASPRIA - de Guaspre;de Waspre;Vosper
  • de WATELEGA - Wateley;Wheatley
  • de WATEUILLA - Waleville;Waterfield
  • de WELLEBO - de Wellebof;Welbore
  • WISCARDUS - Wishart
  • WOLLÆUS - Wolley
  • WOLSÆUS - Wolsey
  • WOLUESÆUS - Wolsey
  • de WYUILLA - Wyville;Weevil;Whewell

Coined in the Renaissance

  • Abulcasis (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi)
  • Gustavus II Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf)
  • Leo Africanus
    Leo Africanus
    Joannes Leo Africanus, was a Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa describing the geography of North Africa.-Biography:Most of what is known about his life is gathered from autobiographical...

     (Al-Hassan al-Wazzan al-Fasi)
  • Alexander Agricola
    Alexander Agricola
    Alexander Agricola was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1500, and his music was widely distributed throughout Europe...

     (Alexander Ackerman)
  • Albatenius (Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī)
  • Aldus Manutius
    Aldus Manutius
    Aldus Pius Manutius , the Latinised name of Aldo Manuzio —sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Aldus Manutius, the Younger—was an Italian humanist who became a printer and publisher when he founded the Aldine Press at Venice.His publishing legacy includes...

     (Aldo Manuzio)
  • Algoritmi
    Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
    'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...

    (Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī)
  • Alhacen (Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham)
  • Alpetragius
    Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi
    Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji was an astronomer and a Qadi from Al-Andalus...

    (Nur ed-Din al-Betrugi)
  • Alphonsus
    Alfonso
    Alfonso , Alfons , Afonso , Affonso , Alphonse, Alfonse , Αλφόνσος , Alphonsus , Alphons , Alfonsu in ,...

    (various rulers named Alfonso)
  • Abunaser Alpharabius
    Al-Farabi
    ' known in the West as Alpharabius , was a scientist and philosopher of the Islamic world...

     (Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi)
  • Americus Vespucius
    Amerigo Vespucci
    Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.-Expeditions:...

     (Amerigo Vespucci)
  • Anselmus Cantuariensis
    Anselm of Canterbury
    Anselm of Canterbury , also called of Aosta for his birthplace, and of Bec for his home monastery, was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109...

     (Anselmo d'Aosta)
  • Petrus Apianus
    Petrus Apianus
    Petrus Apianus , also known as Peter Apian, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.The lunar crater Apianus and minor planet 19139 Apian are named in his honour....

     (Peter Apian)
  • Thomas Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...

     (Tommaso d'Aquino)
  • Guido Aretinus
    Guido of Arezzo
    Guido of Arezzo or Guido Aretinus or Guido da Arezzo or Guido Monaco or Guido d'Arezzo was a music theorist of the Medieval era...

     (Guido d'Arezzo)
  • Arminius
    Arminius
    Arminius , also known as Armin or Hermann was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest...

    (Hermann der Cherusker)
  • Jacobus Arminius
    Jacobus Arminius
    Jacobus Arminius , the Latinized name of the Dutch theologian Jakob Hermanszoon from the Protestant Reformation period, served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden...

     (Jacob Harmenszoon)
  • Arzachel (Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī)
  • Augustinus Cantuariensis
    Augustine of Canterbury
    Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597...

     (Augustine of Canterbury)
  • Avempace
    Ibn Bajjah
    Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh , known as Ibn Bājjah , was an Andalusian polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, botanist, poet and scientist. He was known in the West by his Latinized name, Avempace...

    (Ibn Bajjah)
  • Avenzoar
    Ibn Zuhr
    Abū Merwān ’Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr was a Muslim physician, surgeon and teacher in Al-Andalus.He was born at Seville...

    (Ibn Zuhr)
  • Averroes
    Averroes
    ' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...

    (Ibn Rushd)
  • Avicenna
    Avicenna
    Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

    (Ibn Sina Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn)
  • Azophi
    Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
    Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was a Persian astronomer also known as Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, or Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Sufi, Abdurrahman Sufi and known in the west as Azophi; the lunar crater Azophi and the minor planet 12621 Alsufi are named after him...

    (Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi)
  • Johannes Balbus
    John of Genoa
    John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest.At an advanced age, John gave away his wealth to the poor of Genoa and entered the Order of St Dominic...

     (Giovanni Balbi)
  • Caspar Barlaeus
    Caspar Barlaeus
    Caspar Barlaeus was a Dutch polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian.-Life:...

     (Caspar van Baerle)
  • Benedictus de Spinoza
    Baruch Spinoza
    Baruch de Spinoza and later Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Jewish philosopher. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death...

     (Baruch Spinoza)
  • Carolus Borromeus
    Charles Borromeo
    Charles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests...

     (Carlo Borromeo)
  • Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen Bosch)
  • Brocardus
    Burchard of Worms
    Burchard of Worms was the Roman Catholic bishop of Worms in the Holy Roman Empire, and author of a Canon law collection in twenty books, the "Collectarium canonum" or "Decretum".-Life:...

    (Burchard)
  • Calid
    Calid
    CalidAlso Kalid, possibly Galid. Haly or Hali is likely Haly Abenragel. is a medieval Latin transcription of the Arabic name Khalid .-Khalid ibn Yazid:...

    (Khalid ibn Yazid)
  • Camellus (Georg Joseph Kamel)
  • Hieronymus Cardanus
    Gerolamo Cardano
    Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler...

     (Gerolamo Cardano)
  • Renatus Cartesius
    René Descartes
    René Descartes ; was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day...

     (René Descartes)
  • Conrad Celtes
    Conrad Celtes
    Conrad Celtes , also Konrad Celtis and Latin Conradus Celtis , was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and Neo-Latin poet.-Life:...

     (Conrad Pickel)
  • Aelius Lampridius Cervinus (Ilija Crijević or Elio Lampridio Cerva)
  • Clavius (Christoph Clau or Klau)
  • Johannes Coccejus (Johannes Koch)
  • Iohannes Cochanovius
    Jan Kochanowski
    Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...

     (Jan Kochanowski)
  • Christopher Columbus
    Christopher Columbus
    Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...

     (Cristoforo Colombo)
  • Iohannes Comenius
    Comenius
    John Amos Comenius ; ; Latinized: Iohannes Amos Comenius) was a Czech teacher, educator, and writer. He served as the last bishop of Unity of the Brethren, and became a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica...

     (Jan Amos Komenský)
  • Confucius
    Confucius
    Confucius , literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period....

    (Kong Fuzi)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....

     (Niklas Koppernigk)
  • Laurentius Corvinus
    Laurentius Corvinus
    Laurentius Corvinus was a Silesian scholar who lectured as an ‘extraordinary’ professor at the University of Krakow when Nicolaus Copernicus began to study there...

     (Lorenz Rabe)
  • Gerardus Cremonensis
    Gerard of Cremona
    Gerard of Cremona was an Italian translator of Arabic scientific works found in the abandoned Arab libraries of Toledo, Spain....

     (Gerardo da Cremona)
  • Nicolaus Cusanus
    Nicholas of Cusa
    Nicholas of Kues , also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa, was a cardinal of the Catholic Church from Germany , a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered one of the great geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century...

     (Nikolaus von Kues)
  • Dreses
    Muhammad al-Idrisi
    Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire and died in...

    (Muhammad al-Idrisi)
  • Desiderius Erasmus
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus , known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian....

     (Gerrit Gerritszoon)
  • Thomas Erastus
    Thomas Erastus
    Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments...

     (Thomas Lieber or Lüber)
  • Thomas Erpenius
    Thomas van Erpe
    Thomas van Erpe [known as Thomas Erpenius] , Dutch Orientalist, was born at Gorinchem, in Holland....

     (Thomas van Erpe)
  • Leonhardus Eulerus
    Leonhard Euler
    Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...

     (Leonhard Euler)
  • Eustachius
    Bartolomeo Eustachi
    Bartolomeo Eustachi , also known by his Latin name of Eustachius, was one of the founders of the science of human anatomy.-Life:...

    (Bartolomeo Eustachi)
  • Hieronymus Fabricius
    Hieronymus Fabricius
    Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio or by his Latin name Fabricus ab Aquapendende also Girolamo Fabrizi d'Acquapendente was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology."...

     (Girolamo Fabrizi)
  • Fallopius
    Gabriele Falloppio
    Gabriele Falloppio , often known by his Latin name Fallopius, was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century....

     (Gabriele Falloppio)
  • Marsilius Ficinus
    Marsilio Ficino
    Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin...

     (Marsilio Ficino)
  • Armen Firman
    Abbas Ibn Firnas
    Abbas Ibn Firnas , also known as Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas and عباس بن فرناس , was a Muslim Andalusian polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, Arabic poet, and Andalusian musician. Of Berber descent, he was born in Izn-Rand Onda, Al-Andalus , and lived in the Emirate of Córdoba...

     (Abbas ibn Firnas)
  • Hieronymus Fracastorius
    Girolamo Fracastoro
    Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation....

     (Girolamo Fracastoro)
  • Iohannes Freinsheimius
    Johann Freinsheim
    Johann Freinsheim , also known under the Latinized form of the name, Johannes Frenshemius, was a German classical scholar and critic....

     (Johann Freinsheim)
  • Gemma Frisius
    Gemma Frisius
    Gemma Frisius , was a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker...

     (Jemme Reinerszoon)
  • Siddarthus Gautamus
    Gautama Buddha
    Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian...

     (Gautama Buddha)
  • Geber
    Geber
    Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān, often known simply as Geber, was a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geologist, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Born and educated in Tus, he later traveled to Kufa...

    (Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan)
  • Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah
    Jabir ibn Aflah
    Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ was a Muslim astronomer and mathematician from Seville, who was active in 12th century Andalusia. His work Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭi influenced Islamic, Jewish and Christian astronomers....

    )
  • Gersonides
    Gersonides
    Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG , philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France...

    (Levi ben Gershom)
  • Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law...

     (Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot)
  • Joseph Guarnerius (Giuseppe Guarneri)
  • Johannes Hevelius
    Johannes Hevelius
    Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish:Some sources refer to Hevelius as German:*Encyplopedia Britannica * of the Royal Society was a councilor and mayor of Danzig , Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

     (Johannes Hewelcke)
  • Jodocus Hondius
    Jodocus Hondius
    Jodocus Hondius , sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son Henricus Hondius II, was a Flemish artist, engraver, and cartographer...

     (Joost de Hondt)
  • Christianus Hugenius (Christiaan Huygens)
  • Martinus Hylacomylus or Ilacomilus
    Martin Waldseemüller
    Martin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer...

     (Martin Waldseemüller)
  • Cornelius Iansenius
    Cornelius Jansen
    Corneille Janssens, commonly known by the Latinized name Cornelius Jansen or Jansenius, was Catholic bishop of Ypres and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.-Biography:...

     (Cornelius Jansen)
  • Iohannes Iessenius
    Jan Jesenius
    Jan Jesenius was a Slovak physician, politician and philosopher...

     (János Jeszenszky or Ján Jesenský)
  • Ignatius de Loyola
    Ignatius of Loyola
    Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...

     (Ignacio de Loyola)
  • Jacobus de Cessolis
    Jacobus de Cessolis
    Jacobus de Cessolis was an Italian author of the most famous morality book on chess in the Middle Ages....

     (Jacopo da Cessole)
  • Jesu Occulist (Ali Ibn Isa)
  • Johannes Antonius Scopoli
    Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
    Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...

     (Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
  • Johannitius (Hunayn ibn Ishaq)
  • Iohannes Keplerus
    Johannes Kepler
    Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican...

     (Johannes Kepler)
  • 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:...

     (John Keys)
  • Laocius
    Laozi
    Laozi was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching . His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism...

     (Lao Zi)
  • Orlandus Lassus
    Orlande de Lassus
    Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance...

     (Orlande de Lassus or Orlando di Lasso)
  • Aloysius Lilius
    Aloysius Lilius
    Aloysius Lilius , also variously referred to as Luigi Lilio, Luigi Giglio, or Aluise Baldassar Lilio, was an Italian doctor, astronomer, philosopher and chronologist, and also the "primary author" who provided the proposal that became the basis of the Gregorian Calendar reform of 1582.The crater...

     (Luigi Giglio)
  • Carolus Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

     (Carl von Linné)
  • Iustus Lipsius
    Justus Lipsius
    Justus Lipsius was a Southern-Netherlandish philologist and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these is De Constantia...

     (Joost Lips)
  • Mencius
    Mencius
    Mencius was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.-Life:Mencius, also known by his birth name Meng Ke or Ko, was born in the State of Zou, now forming the territory of the county-level city of Zoucheng , Shandong province, only thirty kilometres ...

    (Meng Zi)
  • Gerardus Mercator
    Gerardus Mercator
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     (Gheert Cremer or Gerard de Cremer)
  • Morinus (Jean-Baptiste Morin)
  • Joannes Morinus (Jean Morin)
  • Thomas Morus
    Thomas More
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     (Thomas More)
  • Ben Mousa
    Banu Musa
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     (Banū Mūsā)
  • Nostradamus
    Nostradamus
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    (Michel de Nostredame)
  • Abraham Ortelius
    Abraham Ortelius
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     (Abraham Ortels or Hortels)
  • Ianus Pannonius
    Janus Pannonius
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     (János Csezmicei or Ivan Česmički)
  • Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim; Paracelsus
    Paracelsus
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     (Phillip von Hohenheim)
  • Pierius Magnus (Pier Gerlofs Donia
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    )
  • Franciscus Patricius (Frane Petrić/Petris/Petrišević, Francesco Patrizi da Cherso)
  • Petrus Plancius
    Petrus Plancius
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     (Pieter Platevoet )
  • Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)
  • Regiomontanus
    Regiomontanus
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    (Johannes Müller von Königsberg)
  • Johannes Rhodius (Hinne Rode)
  • Andreas Rivetus
    André Rivet
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     (André Rivet)
  • Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita
    Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita
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     (Antonín Maria Šírek z Reity)
  • Carolus Sigonius
    Carolus Sigonius
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     (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone)
  • Willibrordus Snellius (Willibrord Snel)
  • Socinus (Lelio Sozzini)
  • Faustus Socinus
    Fausto Paolo Sozzini
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     (Fausto Paolo Sozzini)
  • Johannes Stadius
    Johannes Stadius
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     (Jan Van Ostaeyen or Jean Stade)
  • Antonius Stradivarius
    Antonio Stradivari
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     (Antonio Stradivari)
  • Actius Syncerus
    Jacopo Sannazaro
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     (Jacopo Sannazaro)
  • Abubacer Aben Tofail
    Ibn Tufail
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     (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail)
  • Tusi
    Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
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    (Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī)
  • Tycho Brahe
    Tycho Brahe
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     (Tyge Ottesen Brahe)
  • Guido Ubaldus
    Guido Ubaldus
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     (Guidobaldo del Monte)
  • Andreas Vesalius
    Vesalius
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     (Andries van Wesel)
  • Gisbertus Voetius
    Gisbertus Voetius
    Gisbertus Voetius was a Dutch Calvinist theologian.-Life:...

    (Gijsbert Voet)

Sources

  • "The Record Interpreter" at Winchester Public Library. States as introduction: "The compiler of this list has inserted some Latin names occurring in English documents of which he has found no English equivalent". Reproduced in Roy Cox's Genealogical & Historical Research
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