Ptolemy (disambiguation) - Other Ptolemies

Other Ptolemies

• Ptolemaeus of Commagene (d. 130 BC), satrap and then first King of Commagene
• Ptolemy (son of Abubus), governor of Jericho in the First Book of the Maccabees, for whom Dante named the section of Hell reserved for traitors to guests.
• Ptolemy-el-Garib, a Peripatetic pinacographer whose Life of Aristotle survives in Arabic translation
• Ptolemy (son of Dorymenes) (circa 66 BC) - soldier in the Seleucid Empire under Lysias.
• Ptolemy (son of Mennaeus) (rule ended circa 40 BC) - governor of Abilene, a district of the disputed region of Coele-Syria.
• Ptolemy (Acts of Peter) - a character in the Acts of Peter, who was a rich man trying to marry the daughter of Peter
• Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 90-circa 168) - also known as Ptolemy, he was an author, geographer, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer who lived in the Greek culture of Roman Egypt. See also: Legacy of Claudius Ptolemaeus.
• Ptolemaeus Chennus (2nd century AD) - grammarian who lived in the Greek culture of Roman Egypt.
• Ptolemy (gnostic) (circa 180 AD) - a religious philosopher who was active in Roman Italy and Gaul.
• Ptolemaeus and Lucius, Christian martyrs
• Ptolemaeus Secundus, a Latin nickname for the Arab polymath Ibn al-Haytham.
• Ptolemy I of Tusculum (d.1126) - count of Tusculum who asserted his family's descent from the Roman Julii.
• Ptolemy II of Tusculum (d.1153) - count of Tusculum who married Bertha, daughter of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Bernard Tolomeo (Italian spelling of Ptolemy) (1272–1348) - founder of the Olivetan Roman Catholic religious order.
• Tolomeo da Lucca (ca. 1227-ca. 1327), also known as Bartholomew of Lucca, historian and Dominican.
• John Baptist Tolomei (Italian variant of Ptolemy) (1653–1726) - Jesuit theologian and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Franciscus Ptolemaeus or Francesco Tolommei, 17th. century Italian erudite, author of Vetustalia seu Vetustatis admiranda, Rome: Ignatius de Lazaris, 1664.