Maurus

Maurus is a Latin given name. It can refer to:

Persons

• Saint Maurus of Parentium (3rd century), the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč
• Saint Maurus (c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia
• Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856)
• Saint Maurus of Pécs, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075)

• Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes called Maurus Servius in medieval manuscripts
• Maurus (bishop of Csanád), 11th-century Hungarian friar
• Manfred Maurus (died 2008), German scientist
• (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher
• Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
• Sylvester Maurus (1619-1687), Italian Jesuit theologian
• Kuber (Maurus the Kuber), brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of Kubrat Kaghan of Patria Onoguria
• Maurus, religious name of secret agent monk Alexander Horn

Other uses

• The inhabitants of Mauretania, ancient kingdom and late Roman province
• Maurus vogelii, a species of gossamer-winged butterflies

See also

• Mauro (disambiguation)
• Maura (disambiguation)
• Mauritius (given name)
• San Mauro (disambiguation)