Linus

Linus is a common name for people or things.

People

Many people bear the first or middle name Linus:

• Pope Linus, the second Pope of the Catholic Church.
• Linus B. Comins, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts in 1857-59
• Linus Gerdemann, a German professional road bicycle racer
• Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel Prizes (chemistry and peace)
• Linus Roache, actor
• Linus Torvalds, programmer, creator of the Linux kernel
• Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer
• Linus is a Roman cognomen.

Fictional characters

• Linus (mythology), any of three sons of Apollo
• Linus van Pelt, a character in the comic strip Peanuts

Other

• Linus (magazine), Italian magazine published from 1965 named after the Peanuts character
• (22) Kalliope I Linus, an asteroid moon that orbits 22 Kalliope, named for the son of Apollo
• Project Linus
• Linus's law, named for Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone."
• (Like) Linus was Deftones's first demo tape.
• "Linus and Lucy" is a jazz piano piece written by Vince Guaraldi and made popular in the Charlie Brown television specials.
• Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University
• Linus (language) - Language for INstructional USe (http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=5831]); A language hybridised from FORTRAN, PL/I and Algol 68, used to give students a foundation in structure programming.
• Ben Linus, a main character in the US television show Lost
• Linus Entertainment, a record label
• Linus Caldwell, a character from the movies Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen played by Matt Damon.
• nickname slang used by Arrested Development character Buster Bluth for male genitalia
• Linus Christiansson, co-owner of the advertising agency Helvetica in Malmö Sweden. Also founder of Zobana.com

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