People With The Given Name Matthias
Notable people named Matthias include the following:
In nobility:
- Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary
- Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor-elect of the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg dynasty)
In religion:
- Saint Matthias, Apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot
- Matthias of Trakai, Lithuanian clergyman, bishop of Samogitia and of Vilnius
- Matthias Flacius, Lutheran reformer
- Matthias the Prophet, see Robert Matthews (religious impostor) Claimed to be the reincarnation of the original Matthias during the Second Great Awakening
In the arts:
- Matthias Grünewald, highly regarded painter from the German Renaissance
- Matthias Lechner, German film art director
In music:
- Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter
- Matthias Weckmann, North German musician and composer of the Baroque period
- Matthias Paul aka Paul van Dyk, German Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and producer
Other:
- Matthias Ephlias, paternal ancestor of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
- Mattias Ekström, Swedish racing driver
- Matthias Curtus, paternal great-grandfather of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
- Matthias, father of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
- Matthias, brother of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus
- F. Matthias Alexander, Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique
- Matthias Felleisen, programming languages researcher
- Matthias Platzeck, German politician
- Matthias Sammer, former German football (soccer) player who is now a head coach
- Matthias, a character in Brian Jacques's Redwall series
- Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory
- Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and LyX
- Matthias Frings, German writer and journalist
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