What is "galvanus"

Galvanus may refer to:

• Galvanus de Bettino (c. 1335–c. 1394), also called Galvanus de Bononia, Galvanus Becchini, Italian religious scholar
• Galvanus de Levanto (fl. 14th century), also called Galvanus Januensis, Galvanus of Genoa, and Galvano de Gines), Italian theologian, physician to Pope Benedict XII

• Galvanus, an alternate name for Gawain
• Lamp of Galvanus, sometimes called lamp of Galvanus Marlianus, an artifact described in the 1658 work Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial by Thomas Browne
• Silentium Galvanus, a bogus homeopathic medicine named in an internet meme; see Galvão Bueno#Cala a boca Galvão (Internet meme)