Andronicus
Appearance
Andronicus or Andronikos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος) is a classical Greek name. The name has the sense of "male victor, warrior". The female is Andronike (Ἀνδρονίκη). Notable bearers of the name include:
- Andronicus of Olynthus, Greek general under Demetrius in the 4th century BC
- Livius Andronicus (c. 284–204 BC), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c.240 BC
- Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC
- Andronicus of Pergamum, a 2nd-century BC diplomat
- Andronicus of Macedonia, governor of Ephesus in 2nd century BC
- Andronicus of Cyrrhus (c. 100 BC), Greek astronomer
- Andronicus of Rhodes (c. 70 BC), Greek philosopher
- Andronicus of Pannonia (Saint Andronicus), an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16:7
- Andronicus (physician), a Greek physician of the 2nd century
- Andronicus (poet), a writer of the 4th century
- Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Saint Andronicus), a 4th-century martyr
- Andronicus of Alexandria, a soldier, martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
- Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria (reigned 616–622)
- Five Byzantine emperors:
- Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185)
- Andronikos II Palaiologos (1258–1332)
- Andronikos III Palaiologos (1297–1341)
- Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1348–1385)
- Andronikos V Palaiologos (c. 1400 – c. 1407), co-emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos
- Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonike (1403–1429)
- Three emperors of Trebizond:
- Andronikos I of Trebizond (died 1235)
- Andronikos II of Trebizond (c. 1240–1266)
- Andronikos III of Trebizond (c. 1310–1332)
- In fiction:
- Titus Andronicus, a play by William Shakespeare, possibly inspired by one of the above-listed emperors
- Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician, a 1646 satire by Thomas Fuller