Pontius

Pontius means "marine" or "relating to the sea." It can be used as a name, both first and last. People named "Pontius" include;

• The Greek name for Pontic Greeks
• Gaius Pontius, Samnite commander and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, believed ancestor of Pontius Pilate
• Pontius Aquilia, a tribune that lived at the time of Julius Caesar
• Pontius Fregellanus, a man of senatorial rank. He was involved in an adultery scandal at the time the Emperor Tiberius, died in March 37
• Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, became consul at the time the Emperor Tiberius died in March 37
• Pontius Pilate (Latin: Pontius Pilatus), Roman governor of Judea, according to the Bible and the secular Cornelius Tacitus (senator and a historian of the Roman Empire) he presided over the trial of Jesus Christ
• Pontia, a Roman Noblewoman that lived in 58, she is mentioned in Tacitus, Annals, Book XIII
• Pontius of Carthage, deacon in Carthage, early Christian writer from the middle of the 3rd century, who wrote a description of the life of Church Father Cyprian of Carthage
• Pontius, saint and Bishop of Barbastro
• Paulus Pontius, artist
• Chris Pontius, actor in Jackass television series
• Chris Pontius, American soccer player for D.C. United