Cornelius
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Cornelius is a Roman family name and a masculine given name. It could be derived from Latin cornu "horn". People, places and things named Cornelius include:

Surname

  • Alvin Robert Cornelius, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
    Supreme Court of Pakistan
    The Supreme Court is the apex court in Pakistan's judicial hierarchy, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islamabad. It has number of Branch Registries where cases are heard. It has a number of de jure powers which are outlined in the...

     from 1960 to 1968
  • Cornelia (gens) (fem. Cornelia), the nomen of the patrician gens Cornelia, one of the important families of Ancient Rome
  • Carter Cornelius
    Carter Cornelius
    Carter Cornelius was a rhythm and blues musician.-Band:A native of Dania Beach, Florida, Cornelius was part of the musical group Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose...

    , musician who was a member of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
  • Don Cornelius
    Don Cornelius
    Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius is an American television show host and producer who is best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971-1993...

    , the creator and first host of Soul Train
  • Elias Cornelius (1794–1832), American missionary
  • Peter Cornelius
    Peter Cornelius
    Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....

    , German composer
  • Peter Cornelius (photographer)
    Peter Cornelius (photographer)
    Peter Cornelius was a German photographer and photojournalist.After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography in his hometown Kiel. From the mid fifties, he specialized in color photography as one of the first color photographers in Germany...

    , German photographer
  • Peter von Cornelius
    Peter von Cornelius
    Peter von Cornelius was a German painter.Cornelius was born in Düsseldorf.His father, who was inspector of the Düsseldorf gallery, died in 1799, and the young Cornelius was stimulated to extraordinary exertions...

    , German painter
  • Ryan Scott Cornelius, Designer and Managing Director or Ryan Cornelius Ltd.
  • Thomas R. Cornelius
    Thomas R. Cornelius
    Thomas R. Cornelius was a prominent American politician and soldier in the early history of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he moved to the Oregon Country with his family as a young man where he fought in the Cayuse War and Yakima Indian War against the Native Americans...

    , namesake of Cornelius, Oregon

Richard Christian Cornelius, of Newman Lake Washington, www.corneliusinsurance.net

Given name

  • Corneille (singer)
    Corneille (singer)
    Cornelius Nyungura is a singer who performs under the name Corneille. He was born in Germany to Rwandan parents, though he currently holds a Canadian passport and sings in French and English...

    , stage name of Cornelius Nyungura, German-born Québécois rhythm and blues singer

  • Cornelius (musician)
    Cornelius (musician)
    Cornelius is a Japanese recording artist and producer.-Career:Oyamada's first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene...

    , pseudonym of Japanese recording artist and producer Keigo Oyamada
  • Cornelius Agrippa, 15th century magician and cabalist
  • Cornelius Boza Edwards
    Cornelius Boza Edwards
    Cornelius Boza Edwards was a Ugandan boxer in the Light Welterweight division and the former WBC Super Featherweight Champion. Edwards emigrated from Uganda to England, where he lived for a long period of time...

    , junior lightweight boxing champion
  • Cornelius Burges
    Cornelius Burges
    Cornelius Burges or Burgess, D.D. , was an English minister. He was active in religious controversy prior to and around the time of the Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate, following the English Civil War...

    , English minister
  • Cornelius Cardew
    Cornelius Cardew
    Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected the avant-garde in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music".-Biography:Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire...

    , English composer
  • Cornelius the Centurion, considered by Christians to be the first Gentile converted
  • Cornelius Castoriadis
    Cornelius Castoriadis
    Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...

    , Greek-French astronomer, philosopher
  • Cornelius Chase aka Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase
    Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...

    , actor and comedian
  • Cornelius Cole
    Cornelius Cole
    Cornelius Cole served a single term in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican representing California from 1863 to 1865, and another term in the United States Senate from 1867 to 1873.-Life:...

    , Governor of California
  • Cornelius P. Comegys
    Cornelius P. Comegys
    Cornelius Parsons Comegys was an American farmer and politician from Dover Hundred, in Kent County, Delaware, near Little Creek...

    , American farmer and politician
  • Cornelius Fuscus
    Cornelius Fuscus
    Cornelius Fuscus was a Roman general who fought campaigns under the Emperors of the Flavian dynasty. During the reign of Domitian, he served as prefect of the imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 81 until his death in 86...

    , prefect of the Praetorian Guard
  • Cornelius Hardy
    Cornelius Hardy
    Cornelius William John Hardy was a convict transported to Western Australia, later to become one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers....

    , Australian convict
  • Cornelius Henry
    Cornelius Henry
    Cornelius Cyprian Henry in St Lucia is a Canadian cricketer and rugby union player. He played in the 1979 Cricket World Cup where he took two wickets against Australia . He then played rugby for Canada in the 1980s. He currently plays cricket in Ottawa for Bel Air CC....

    , Canadian cricketer
  • Cornelius Holland, English, chief participant in drawing up charges for the regicide of Charles I
  • Cornelius Jakhelln
    Cornelius Jakhelln
    Cornelius Jakhelln , also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist, guitarist, musician, writer and poet.-Musician:...

    , Norwegian musician
  • Cornelius Johnson, African-American high jump athlete
  • Cornelius Lanczos
    Cornelius Lanczos
    Cornelius Lanczos Löwy Kornél was a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974....

    , Hungarian mathematician and physicist
  • Cornelius Lysaght
    Cornelius Lysaght
    Cornelius Lysaght is the horse racing correspondent of the BBC, usually broadcasting on Radio 5 Live. He took up this position in June 2001, succeeding the late Peter Bromley, who had held the position since 1959....

    , horse racing correspondent
  • Cornelius McGillicuddy IV (Connie Mack IV
    Connie Mack IV
    Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV popularly known as Connie Mack IV is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes Fort Myers and Naples....

    ), congressman from Florida
  • Cornelius McGillicuddy III (Connie Mack III
    Connie Mack III
    Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III , popularly known as Connie Mack, is a former Republican politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1983 to 1989 and then as a Senator from 1989 to 2001. He served as chairman of the Senate Republican...

    ), senator from Florida
  • Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr., better known as Connie Mack
    Connie Mack
    Connie Mack may refer to:* Connie Mack I , Hall of Fame baseball manager, player, owner* Connie Mack III , U.S. Representative , U.S. Senator from Florida * Connie Mack IV , U.S...

    , baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager, and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Cornelius Nepos
    Cornelius Nepos
    Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola...

    , Gaulician historian
  • Cornelius Pot, Dutch football coach; currently assistant coach at FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
  • Cornelius Ryan
    Cornelius Ryan
    Cornelius Ryan, was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day , The Last Battle , and A Bridge Too Far .-Early life:Ryan was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS,...

     (1920-1974), author of The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far
  • Cornelio Saavedra
    Cornelio Saavedra
    Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez was a military officer and statesman from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata...

    , first President of Argentina 1810
  • Cornelius Calvin Sale, birth name of Robert Byrd
    Robert Byrd
    Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...

    , senator and congressman from West Virginia
  • Cornelius Van Til
    Cornelius Van Til
    Cornelius Van Til , born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist.-Biography:...

    , a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist
  • Cornelius Vander Starr
    Cornelius Vander Starr
    Cornelius Van der Starr also known as Neil Starr or CV Starr was an American businessman and Office of Strategic Services operative who founded the American International Group insurance corporation and a major philanthropic foundation.-Early life:Starr was born in Fort Bragg, California with the...

    , aka Cornelius van der Starr, founder of AIG, the insurance behemoth
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
    Cornelius Vanderbilt
    Cornelius Vanderbilt , also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history...

    , American industrialist
  • Cornelius Wiebe
    Cornelius Wiebe
    Cornelius W. Wiebe, was a Canadian physician and politician.Wiebe was born to a Mennonite family in Altona, Manitoba. He was educated at Wesley College, the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Medical College, receiving his MD in 1925...

    , Canadian physician and politician
  • Pope Cornelius
    Pope Cornelius
    Pope Saint Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March 251 to his martyrdom in June 253.- Christian persecution :Emperor Decius, who ruled from 249 to 251 AD, persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire rather sporadically and locally, but starting January in the year 250, he ordered all...

    , Pope from AD 251 to 253
  • St. Cornelius (disambiguation)

Fictional characters

  • Cornelius (Planet of the Apes), from the Planet of the Apes movie series
  • Cornelius Coot, in the Scrooge McDuck universe
  • Cornelius Fillmore, in the animated series Fillmore!
  • Cornelius Fudge, from the Harry Potter series
  • Cornelius "Cory" Matthews, the main character of Boy Meets World
  • Cornelius Stirk
    Cornelius Stirk
    Cornelius Stirk is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Detective Comics #592 as an enemy of Batman.-Fictional character biography:...

    , in the DC Universe
  • Abraham Cornelius
    Abraham Cornelius
    Doctor Abraham Cornelius is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. He was first mentioned in Barry Windsor-Smith's eight page preview prequel chapter to the original "Weapon X Saga" in Marvel Comics Presents #72 but first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #73 .-Fictional character...

    , a scientist in X-Men comics
  • Doctor Cornelius, in C.S. Lewis's novel Prince Caspian
  • Jerry Cornelius
    Jerry Cornelius
    Jerry Cornelius is a fictional secret agent and adventurer created by science fiction / fantasy author Michael Moorcock. Cornelius is a hipster of ambiguous and occasionally polymorphous sexuality. Many of the same characters feature in each of several Cornelius books, though the individual books...

    , created by Michael Moorcock
  • Yukon Cornelius, in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)
  • Prince Cornelius, faery prince from the movie Thumbelina
    Thumbelina (1994 film)
    Thumbelina is a 1994 American animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Bluth based on Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina. The film was produced by Don Bluth Entertainment and was released to movie theaters by Warner Bros...

  • Lewis "Cornelius" Robinson, the adult character of Lewis in Meet the Robinsons
    Meet the Robinsons
    Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer-animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 30, 2007. The forty-seventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film was released in both the United States and the...

  • Cornelia Hale, the guardian of Earth in the television series w.i.t.c.h.
    W.I.T.C.H.
    W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian fantasy/Magical girl comic series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. It tells the story of five teenage girls who are chosen to be the new Guardians of Kandrakar, protectors of the center of the universe from people and creatures who wish...

  • Gibby Cornelius Gibson, one of the main characters of nickelodeon's
    Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon is a US cable TV channel.Nickelodeon may also refer to:-In television:*Spinoffs of the Nickelodeon channel:** Nickelodeon Magazine, a children's magazine.** Nickelodeon Universe, an amusement park....

     iCarly
    ICarly
    iCarly is an American sitcom that focuses on a girl named Carly Shay who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. The series was created by Dan Schneider, who also serves as executive producer. It stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly, Jennette McCurdy as Sam, Nathan...

    .

Place names

In the United States:
  • Cornelius, Indiana
    Cornelius, Indiana
    Cornelius is an unincorporated town in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana....

  • Cornelius, North Carolina
    Cornelius, North Carolina
    Cornelius is a town located along Lake Norman in northern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 11,969 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cornelius is located along Lake Norman in northern Mecklenburg County...

  • Cornelius, Oregon
    Cornelius, Oregon
    Cornelius is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 9,652 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 10,895 residents.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....


See also

  • Cornelia (disambiguation)
  • Corneliu (disambiguation)
  • Cornelis (disambiguation)
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