Titus

Titus is a common Roman praenomen of unknown etymology, which could refer to any of the following:

People

Historical persons

• Titus, the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus who ruled from 79BCE TO 81BCE.
  • His father, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the Roman Emperor Vespasian
• Titus (Biblical) or St. Titus, fellow worker with St. Paul of Tarsus and pastor of the first Christian church in Crete at Gortyn
  • The Epistle to Titus
• Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC/109 BC – 32 BC), an ancient Roman littérateur/philosopher and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Titus Labienus, Roman general
• Titus Pullo, Roman centurion in Caesar's Legions
• The name given in the Arabic Infancy Gospel to Saint Dismas, the "good thief"
• Titus (patriarch), Patriarch of Constantinople
• The historian Titus Livius, usually referred to as "Livy" in English
• Titus van Rijn, son of the Dutch painter Rembrandt
• Titus Oates 17th Century English perjurer
• Silas Titus, Civil War Soldier and active organizer of the city of Syracuse, New York
• Silas Wright Titus, Engineer and inventor of water pumping systems, discoverer of water supply for New York City in the late nineteenth century
• Silius Titus, captain of Deal Castle, and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles II
• Sir Titus Salt, born 1803, manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in West Yorkshire, creator of Saltaire

Modern persons

• Christopher Titus, comedian actor of the sitcom Titus
• Dina Titus, congresswoman-elect from Nevada's 3rd congressional district
• Eve Titus, children's writer
• Herb Titus U.S. Taxpayers Party|American Taxpayers Party Vice presidential candidate in the 1996 election
• Mark Titus, Ohio State basketball player and popular blogger
• Josip Broz Tito, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia leader (variation on "Tito")
• Titus, former ring name of professional wrestler Ryan Wilson
• Titus Bramble, English footballer
• Titus Brandsma, outspoken Dutch Catholic opponent of Nazism

In the natural world

• Titus, the ancient name of the Krka river in Croatia.
• Titus (spider), a species of spiders (Gnaphosidae)
• Titus (gorilla), a silverback Mountain Gorilla of the Virunga Mountains.

In fiction

• Titus Andronicus, a play by William Shakespeare
• Titus Groan, the protagonist in the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake
• Titus (film) (1999), the film based upon Shakespeare's play
  • Titus (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film by Elliot Goldenthal
• Titus (TV series), American situation comedy based on Christopher Titus.
• Titus Faversham, a character in the radio comedy series The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
• Titus Pullo (character of Rome), a fictitious Roman centurion of the HBO TV series Rome
• Titus Strega-Borgia, a main protagonist in the Pure Dead Series by Debi Gliori
• Titus Fitch, a central character in The Sea, the Sea, by Iris Murdoch

In science and technology

• TITUS (project), a project for creation of an Indo-European languages thesaurus
• Titus (rocket), A French rocket
• Titus (company), a German skateboard and skate wear company
• TITUS Cyberbit Basic, a typeface developed by the TITUS Project and Bitstream Inc
• Titus Cycles, a bicycle frame manufacturer based in Tempe, Arizona, USA

Other

• Titus (band), a Newcastle based Christian punk rock band
• Titus books (publisher), a New Zealand based independent publisher.
• Titus Software, a video game developer and video game publisher
• Titus the Fox, a video game by Titus Software

See also

• Tito (disambiguation)

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