Famous People with Name Claudius

Claudius Ptolemaeus            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Claudius Ptolemaeus: was an ancient Roman Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and astrologer. He lived in Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD.[1]Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest (in Greek, ? ?e???? S??ta???, "The Great Treatise", originally ?a??µat??? S??ta???, "Mathematical Treatise"). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. The third is the astrological treatise known as the Tetrabiblos ("Four books") in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.

Claudius Clavus            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Claudius Clavus: was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer.In 1412-13 at the age of 25 he started to travel around Europe and appeared eleven years later (1423-24) in Rome. It is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he became friends with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography. Claudius contributed to a more realistic description of Nordic countries, in particular Iceland and Greenland, and was probably the first cartographer to put Greenland on a map. He is also known for having named Greenlandic places by using lyrics from old folk songs.

Claudius Weber            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Claudius Weber: is a German football player. As of February 2009, he plays for an amateur club VfB Gießen. He spent one season in the Bundesliga with 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Matthias Claudius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Matthias Claudius: German poet, otherwise known by the nom de plume of

Leslie Walter Claudius            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Leslie Walter Claudius: was an Indian field hockey player, of Anglo-Indian descent.He is in the Guinness Book of World Records along with Udham Singh for having won the maximum number of Olympic medals in field hockey. He was born in Bilaspur.

Gelson Claudius            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Gelson Claudius: was a politician Brazil . He was mayor of the North Arm of January 31 of 1983 to January 1st of 1989 , joined the PMDB . His running mate, elected to the post of deputy mayor, was Guido Valcírio Niehues.