Matthias - People With The Given Name Matthias

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