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Ananias

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Ananias may refer to:

People

Mononyms

  • Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III
  • Ananias of Adiabene (c. 15 BCE–c. 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I
  • Ananias son of Nedebeus, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea
  • Ananias and Sapphira, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God
  • Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul
  • Ananias III, a saint in the 3rd century
  • Ananias (Persian), priest and fellow martyr of Shemon Bar Sabbae (died 345)
  • Ananias of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century
  • Ananias I of Armenia (died 968)
  • Ananias (Jafaridze) (born 1949), Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox Church

Surname

  • Frans Ananias (born 1972), Namibian retired footballer

Given name

  • Ananias Diokno (1860-1922), Leader of the Filipino Visayan forces against the United States during the Philippine–American War, grandfather of Jose Diokno
  • Ananias Dare (c. 1560–1587), husband of Eleanor White and father of Virginia Dare, whose birth was the first to English parents in North America
  • Ananias Davisson (1780–1857), American singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks
  • Ananías Maidana (1923–2010), teacher and politician in Paraguay
  • Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro (1989–2016), Brazilian footballer

Other uses

  • Ananias (gastropod), an extinct genus in family Eotomariidae

See also

  • Prince Ananias, a 1894 operetta composed by Victor Herbert
  • Tenente Ananias, a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil
  • Jesus ben Ananias, plebeian and husbandman who predicted the fall of Jerusalem c. 62 CE
  • Anania (name)
  • Hananiah (disambiguation)
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