Some notable people who have been referred to by Latinized names are:

• Abulcasis Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi, (Arabic: أبو القاسم بن خلف بن العباس الزهراوي‎) also known in the West as Abulcasis, was an Andalusian physician, surgeon, chemist, cosmetologist, and scientist. He is considered the father of modern surgery, and as Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, whose comprehensive (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi)
• Gustavus II Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf)
• Leo Africanus Joannes Leo Africanus, (or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic:حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي) was an Arab diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa (Description of Africa) describing the geography of North Africa (Al-Hassan al-Wazzan al-Fasi)
• Pierius Magnus (Pier Gerlofs Donia Pier Gerlofs Donia was a Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname "Grutte Pier" ("Greate Pier" in the Old Frisian spelling), or by the Dutch translations "Grote Pier" and "Lange Pier", or, in Latin, "Pierius Magnus", which referred to his legendary size and)
• Albatenius Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Sinan ar-Raqqi al-Harrani as-Sabi al-Batani Latinized as Albategnius, Albategni or Albatenius was an Sabaean Arab astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician, born in Raqqa near Urfa, which is now in Turkey (Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī)
• Aldus Manutius Aldus Pius Manutius , the Latinized name of Teobaldo Mannucci, 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 (Aldo Manuzio)
• Algoritmi (Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī)
• Alhacen Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علي، حسن بن حسن بن الهيثم, Persian: ابن هیثم, Latinized: Alhacen or Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo), was an Arab or Persian polymath. He made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to anatomy, astronomy, engineering, (Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham)
• Alpetragius Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi (known in the West by the Latinized name of Alpetragius) (died ca. 1204 AD) was an Arab astronomer and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). Born in Morocco, he settled in Seville, in Andalusia. He became a disciple of Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and was a contemporary of Averroës (Nur ed-Din al-Betrugi)
• Alphonsus Alfonso , Alfons (Catalan, Dutch and German), Afonso (Portuguese and Galician), Affonso (Ancient Portuguese), Alphonse (Italian, French and English), Alphonsus (Latin), Alphons (Dutch), Alfonsu in (Leonese) or Alphonso (English and Filipino) is a masculine name, originally from the Gothic language (various rulers named Alfonso)
• Abunaser Alpharabius Abū Naṣr al-Fārābi (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي - Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābi; in some sources also mentioned as محمد بن محمد بن أوزلغ الفارابي - Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Awzlaġ al-Fārābi), known in the West as Alpharabius (c. 872 – between 14 December 950 and 12 January 951), was a Muslim (Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi)
• Americus Vespucius Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The continent of America derives its name from the feminized Latin version of his first name (For rival claims, see Naming of America page). (Amerigo Vespucci)
• Anselmus Cantuariensis Anselm of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk, an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of scholasticism, he is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God. In 1720, Anselm was recognized as a Doctor of the (Anselmo d'Aosta)
• Petrus Apianus (Peter Apian)
• Thomas Aquinas Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis. He is frequently referred to as Thomas because "Aquinas" refers to his residence rather than his (Tommaso d'Aquino)
• Guido Aretinus (Guido d'Arezzo)
• Arminius Arminius, also known as Armin or Hermann was a chieftain of the Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. His tribal coalition against the Roman Empire successfully blocked the efforts of Germanicus, nephew of Emperor Tiberius, to reconquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine, although there is debate among (Hermann der Cherusker)
• Jacobus Arminius Jacobus Arminius , the Latinized name of the Dutch theologian Jakob Harmenszoon from the Protestant Reformation period, (also known by the Anglicized names of Jacob Arminius or James Arminius), served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden. He wrote many books and treatises on theology and became prominent for his (Jacob Harmenszoon)
• Arzachel Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī , Latinized as Arzachel, was a leading Arab mathematician and the foremost astronomer of his time. He flourished in Toledo in Castile, Al-Andalus (now Spain) (Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī)
• Augustinus Cantuariensis Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 598. He is considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founder of the English Church (Augustine of Canterbury)
• Avempace Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh , known as Ibn Bājjah (Arabic: ابن باجة‎), was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, poet and scientist. He was known in the West by his Latinized name, Avempace. He was born in Zaragoza in what is today Spain and (Ibn Bajjah)
• Avenzoar Abū Merwān ’Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr (also known as Ibn Zuhr, Avenzoar, Abumeron or Ibn-Zohr) (1091–1161) was an Arab Muslim physician, pharmacist, surgeon, parasitologist, Islamic scholar, and teacher (Ibn Zuhr)
• Averroes Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd , better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد‎), and in European literature as Averroes (pronounced /əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/) (1126 – December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath: a master of Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, (Ibn Rushd)
• Avicenna Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā', known as Abū Alī Sīnā or Ibn Sīnā (Arabic: ابن سینا‎), and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek: Aβιτζιανός, Abitzianos), (c. 980 - 1037) was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, (Ibn Sina Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn)
• Azophi '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. Al-Sufi published his famous Book of Fixed Stars in 964, describing much of his (Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi)
• Johannes Balbus (Giovanni Balbi)
• Benedictus de Spinoza Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Today, he is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, (Baruch Spinoza)
• Boadicea (Boudica)
• Carolus Borromeus Saint Charles Borromeo (October 2, 1538 – November 3, 1584) is an Italian saint and was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He worked during the period of 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)
• Brocardus (Burchard)
• Calid Calid is a medieval Latin transcription of the Arabic name Khalid (Khalid ibn Yazid)
• Camellus (Georg Joseph Kamel)
• Hieronymus Cardanus Gerolamo Cardano or Girolamo Cardano was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (Gerolamo Cardano)
• Carolus Magnus Charlemagne (2 April 742 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800 as a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in (Karl)
• Renatus Cartesius Rene Descartes , (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to (René Descartes)
• Conrad Celtes (Conrad Pickel)
• Aelius Lampridius Cervinus (Ilija Crijević or Elio Lampridio Cerva)
• Clavius (Christoph Clau or Klau)
• Clovis Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one king. He also brought them Christianity. He was the son of Childeric I and Basina. At age 16, he succeeded his father in 481 As one of the kings of the Salian Franks, one of the two Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their (Clodovech, Frankish King)
• Iohannes Cochanovius Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language (Jan Kochanowski)
• Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was a Genoese navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean—funded by Queen Isabella of Spain—led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe—he was preceded by the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who (Cristoforo Colombo)
• Iohannes Comenius John Amos Comenius (28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Protestant bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. Comenius became known as the teacher of (Jan Amos Komenský)
• Confucius His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, such as Legalism or Taoism (道家) during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Confucius' thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as (Kong Fuzi)
• Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published in 1543 just before he died, is often regarded as the starting point of modern (Mikołaj Kopernik)
• Laurentius Corvinus (Lorenz Rabe)
• Gerardus Cremonensis Gerard of Cremona , was a Lombard translator of Arabic scientific works (Gerardo da Cremona)
• Nicolaus Cusanus Nicholas of Kues , also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa, was a Roman Catholic cardinal from Germany (Holy Roman Empire), a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered one of the great geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century. He is today recognized for significant spiritual, scientific and (Nikolaus von Kues)
• Dreses Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply El Idrisi (1100 – 1165 or 1166) was an Andalusian geographer, cartographer and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in the North African city of Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire (nowadays Ceuta, Spain) and (Muhammad al-Idrisi)
• Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam – July 12, 1536, Basel) was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic Christian theologian. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ("longing" or "desire"; the name being a genuine (Gerrit Gerritszoon)
• Thomas Erastus (Thomas Lieber or Lüber)
• Thomas Erpenius Thomas van Erpe [known as Thomas Erpenius] , Dutch Orientalist, was born at Gorinchem, in Holland (Thomas van Erpe)
• Leonhardus Eulerus Leonhard Paul Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. His surname is pronounced /ˈɔɪlər/ OY-lər in English (German pronunciation: [ˈɔʏlɐ]); the common English pronunciation /ˈjuːlər/ EW-lər is generally considered incorrect (Leonhard Euler)
• Eustachius Bartolomeo Eustachi , also known by his Latin name of Eustachius, was one of the founders of the science of human anatomy (Bartolomeo Eustachi)
• Hieronymus Fabricius Born in Acquapendente, Fabricius studied at Padua, receiving an MD in 1559 under the guidance of Gabriel Fallopio. He was professor of anatomy and surgery at Padua from 1562. His students included William Harvey and Adriaan van den Spieghel (Girolamo Fabrizi)
• Fallopius 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 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. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's school, (Marsilio Ficino)
• Armen Firman Abbas Ibn Firnas , also known as Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas and العباس بن فرناس (Arabic language), was an Arabic-speaking Berber, born in Izn-Rand Onda, al-Andalus (today's Ronda, Spain), who lived in the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in al-Andalus. He was a polymath, aviator, chemist, engineer, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, (Abbas ibn Firnas)
• Hieronymus Fracastorius Girolamo Fracastoro (1478‑March 17, 1553) was an Venetian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist (Girolamo Fracastoro)
• Iohannes Freinsheimius (Johann Freinsheim)
• Gemma Frisius Gemma Frisius, or Jemme Reinersz , was a mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to surveying and navigation (Reiner Gemma)
• Siddarthus Gautamus Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is generally seen by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha (Sammāsambuddha) of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians date his lifetime from c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, (Gautama Buddha)
• Geber Geber is the Latinized form of "Jabir", with the full name of Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān al azdi (born c. 721 in Tus–died c. 815 in Kufa), a prominent polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geologist, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. He is considered by many to be the "father (Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan)
• Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah)
• Gersonides Levi ben Gershon , better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288–1344), was a famous rabbi, philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. He is one of the more important Jewish bible commentators (Levi ben Gershom)
• Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet (Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot)
• Joseph Guarnerius (Giuseppe Guarneri)
• Johannes Hevelius (Johannes Hewelcke)
• Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen Bosch)
• Christianus Hugenius (Christiaan Huygens)
• Martinus Hylacomylus or Ilacomilus (Martin Waldseemüller)
• Cornelius Iansenius (Cornelius Jansen)
• Iohannes Iessenius (János Jeszenszky or Ján Jesenský)
• Ignatius de Loyola (Ignacio de Loyola)
• Jacobus de Cessolis (Jacopo da Cessole)
• Jesu Occulist (Ali Ibn Isa)
• Johannes Antonius Scopoli (Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
• Johannitius (Hunayn ibn Ishaq)
• Jesus, Jesus Nazarenus, Jesus Christus (Yĕhošūa‘)
• Iohannes Keplerus (Johannes Kepler)
• Laocius (Lao Zi)
• Orlandus Lassus (Orlande de Lassus or Orlando di Lasso)
• Aloysius Lilius (Luigi Giglio)
• Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)
• Iustus Lipsius (Joost Lips)
• Mahomet (Muhammad)
• Moses Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon)
• Mencius (Meng Zi)
• Gerardus Mercator (Gheert Cremer or Gerard de Cremere)
• Morinus (Jean-Baptiste Morin)
• Joannes Morinus (Jean Morin)
• Thomas Morus (Thomas More)
• Ben Mousa (Banū Mūsā)
• Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame)
• Odoacer (Audawakrs)
• Ianus Pannonius (János Csezmicei or Ivan Česmički)
• Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim; Paracelsus (Phillip von Hohenheim)
• Franciscus Patricius (Frane Petrić/Petris/Petrišević, Francesco Patrizi da Cherso)
• Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg)
• Johannes Rhodius (Hinne Rode)
• Andreas Rivetus (André Rivet)
• Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita (Antonín Maria Šírek z Reity)
• Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone)
• Willibrordus Snellius (Willibrord Snel)
• Socinus (Lelio Sozzini)
• Faustus Socinus (Fausto Paolo Sozzini)
• Johannes Stadius (Jan Van Ostaeyen or Jean Stade)
• Antonius Stradivarius (Antonio Stradivari)
• Actius Syncerus (Jacopo Sannazaro)
• Abubacer Aben Tofail (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail)
• Tusi (Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī)
• Tycho Brahe (Tyge Ottesen Brahe)
• Guido Ubaldus (Guidobaldo del Monte)
• Andreas Vesalius (Andries van Wesel)

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