Aegidius (given name)

Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was a magister militum in Gaul.

Aegidius, Ægidius, or Egidius may also refer to:

• Saint Aegidius or Saint Giles (c. 650 – c. 710), hermit saint from Athens
• Aegidius Corboliensis or Gilles de Corbeil (12th–13th century), physician
• Egidius Parisiensis (c. 1160–1223/1224), French poet
• Aegidius of Assisi (c. 1190–1262), one of the original companions of saint Francis of Assisi
• Aegidius de Lessinia (died c. 1304), scholastic philosopher, pupil of Thomas Aquinas
• Aegidius Romanus or Giles of Rome (c. 1243–1316), archbishop of Bourges and philosopher
• Egidius Cantoris, leader of the Men of Understanding
• Aegidius Campensis or Gilles Deschamps (14th century), bishop of Coutances present at the trial of Joan of Arc, teacher of Jean Gerson
• Egidius (Chantilly Codex composer) (c. 1350–1400), sometimes Magister Egidius, composer in the Chantilly Codex
• Egidius de Francia or Egidius de Murino (late 14th century), sometimes Magister Frater Egidius, French composer and music theorist in Italy
• Aegidius of Viterbo or Aegidius Canisius (1472–1532), Italian cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist and poet
• Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph (1729–1812), Italian Franciscan and saint

People with the name

• Egidius Binchois, usually known as Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460), Franco-Flemish composer
• Égide Rombaux (1865–1942), Belgian sculptor
• Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss writer
• Aegidius Hunnius (1550–1603), Lutheran theologian
• Aegidius Sadeler (c. 1570–1629), Flemish baroque era painter and engraver
• Aegidius Bucherius (1576–1665), French Jesuit and chronological scholar
• Aegidius Gelenius (1595–1656), Cologne historian
• Aegidius Rousselet (1610–1686), also known as Gilles Rousselet, French engraver.
• Egidius Slanghen (1820–1882), mayor of Hoensbroek, Netherlands
• Egidius Junger (1833–1895), German-born bishop of Nesqually
• Ægidius Elling (1861–1949), Norwegian inventor
• Egidius Braun (born 1925), president of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund
• Egidius Juška (born 1975), retired Lithuanian soccer player