Candidus

In Latin, candidus/candida means "clear and white". Candidus became a common Roman cognomen.

See also: List of Roman cognomina#C

Candidus may also refer to:

Pen names

• Pen name of Alexander Campbell, Restoration Movement Leader
• Pen-name of Loyalist Lt. Col. James Chalmers a Revolutionary era pamphleteer
• Pen-name of patriot Samuel Adams during the era of the Sons of Liberty

Other uses

• Saint Candidus, martyr
• Candidus Isaurus, a Greek speaking historian of the 5th century from Isauria Tracheia (see Patrologia Graeca PG 85)
• Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (Alfred Candidus Ferdinand)
• A disciple of Clement of Ireland
• Candidus of Fulda, a ninth-century scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance
• Candidus (floruit 793–802), another ninth-century scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance
• Hugh Candidus (c.1095–c.1160) Benedictine monk and chronicler

See also

• Candida (disambiguation)
• Candidiasis