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Ambrosius

Ambrosius or Ambrosios (a Latin adjective derived from the Ancient Greek word ἀμβρόσιος, ambrosios "divine, immortal") may refer to:

Given name:

  • Ambrosius Alexandrinus, a Latinization of the name of Ambrose of Alexandria (before 212–c. 250), Egyptian theologian and saint
  • Saint Ambrose (Aurelius Ambrosius) (c. 340-397), bishop of Milan
  • Ambrosius Aurelianus, fifth-century war leader of the Romano-British
  • Ambrosius of Georgia (1861–1927), Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia
  • Ambrosius of Optino
  • Ambrosius, Metropolitan of Helsinki
  • Ambrosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Ambrosius (Hussite), priest, leader of Hussite peasants
  • Ambrosius Beber ( fl. 1610–1620), German composer
  • Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500 – 1550), Italian painter
  • Ambrosius Blarer (1492–1564), Swiss reformer
  • Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573–1621), Dutch painter
  • Ambrosius Bosschaert II (1609–1645), Dutch painter, son of the above
  • Ambrosius Bogbinder, mayor of Copenhagen (1529–36)
  • Ambrosius Brueghel (1617–1675), Flemish Baroque painter
  • Ambrosius Ehinger (c. 1500 – 1533), German conquistador
  • Ambrosius Gudko (1867–1918), Russian Orthodox saint and bishop
  • Ambrosius Francken I (1544–1618), Flemish Baroque painter
  • Ambrosius Francken II (1590–1632), Flemish painter, nephew of the above
  • Ambrosius Frobenius (1537–1602), Swiss printer and publisher
  • Ambrosius Haingura (1957–2000), Namibian activist and politician
  • Ambrosius Holbein (c. 1494 – c. 1519), German and Swiss painter, drawer and printmaker, elder brother of Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Ambrosius Hubrecht (1853–1915), Dutch zoologist
  • Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585), German humanist and translator
  • Macrobius (fl. 5th century), Roman grammarian and philosopher (Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius in later manuscripts)
  • Ambrosius Moibanus (1494–1554), German Lutheran theologian and reformer
  • Ambrosius Pelargus (c. 1493 – 1561), German anti-reformer Dominican theologian
  • Ambrosius Petruzzy (died 1652), Italian sculptor
  • Ambrosios Pleianthidis, Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop
  • Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758), Danish poet

Surname:

  • Lothar Ambrosius (1903–1971), German World War II officer
  • Marsha Ambrosius (born 1977), English singer-songwriter

Fictional characters:

  • Merlin, in Arthurian legend, named Merlin Ambrosius in Godfrey of Monmouth's '' Historia Regum Britanniae''
  • Ambrosius, a character in the film Labyrinth