# Apollonius

Apollonius (Ancient Greek: Άπολλώνιος) is a masculine given name which may refer to:

## People
### Ancient world
#### Artists

* Apollonius of Athens (sculptor) (fl. 1st century BC)
* Apollonius of Tralles (fl. 2nd century BC), sculptor
* Apollonius (satyr sculptor)
* Apollonius (son of Archias), sculptor

#### Historians

* Apollonius of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 3rd century BC), historian of Caria
* Apollonius of Ascalon, historian mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium

#### Writers

* Apollonius Attaleus, writer on dreams
* Apollonius of Acharnae, ancient Greek writer on festivals
* Apollonius of Laodicea, writer on astrology
* Apollonius of Rhodes (born c. 270 BC), librarian and poet, best known for the Argonautica
* Apollonius (son of Chaeris), ancient Greek writer, mentioned by the scholiast on Aristophanes
* Apollonius (son of Sotades), writer

#### Oratory

* Apollonius Dyscolus (fl. 2nd century AD), grammarian
* Apollonius Eidographus, ancient Greek grammarian
* Apollonius Molon (fl. 70 BC), rhetorician
* Apollonius of Athens or Apollonius of Naucratis, (fl. 2nd century AD), sophist and rhetorician
* Apollonius the Effeminate (fl. 120 BC), Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria
* Apollonius the Sophist, grammarian who lived towards the end of the 1st century, and wrote a renowned Homeric lexicon

#### Philosophers

* Apollonius Cronus (fl. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Megarian school
* Apollonius of Chalcedon, philosophy tutor to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
* Apollonius of Syria, Platonic philosopher
* Apollonius of Tyana (c. 40–c. 100 AD), Neo-Pythagorean philosopher
* Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher), Stoic philosopher
* Apollonius paradoxographus (fl. 2nd century BC), paradoxographer

#### Political

* Apollonius (ambassador) (fl. 2nd century BC), ambassador sent from the Seleucid Empire
* Apollonius (consul 460), consul in 460
* Apollonius (freedman), or Publius Licinius Apollonius, secretary of Publius Licinius Crassus
* Apollonius (magister militum) (fl. 443–451), Eastern Roman general
* Apollonius of Clazomenae (fl. 2nd century BC), ambassador sent to the Seleucid Empire
* Apollonius of Drepanum (fl. 2nd century BC), citizen of Sicily
* Apollonius of Sicily, leader of a revolt in 103 BCE
* Apollonius (praetorian prefect) (442–443), Roman Praetorian prefect
* Apollonius (Seleucid) (fl. 2nd century BC) a friend of Demetrius I Soter
* Apollonius (son of Charinus), politician under Alexander the Great
* Apollonius the dioiketes (fl. 250 BC), finance minister of Egypt
* Apollonius (tyrant), (fl. 1st century BC), Mesopotamian tyrant
* Apollonius, general of the Samarians, who was defeated at the Battle of Ma'aleh Levona in 167 BC

#### Religious figures

* Apollonius, Bishop of Corinth, 2nd-century Bishop of Corinth
* Apollonius (bishop of Ephesus), 2nd-century Christian writer
* Apollonius (martyr), Christian martyr of the 2nd century
* Apollonius of Egypt, theorist on the age of the world
* Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. 180–210), religious leader and writer
* Apollonius the Apologist (died c. 186), religious leader
* Apollonius of Rome, Christian martyr of the 4th century

#### Physicians and scientists

* List of physicians named Apollonius, a list of physicians in ancient Greece and Rome
** Apollonius Glaucus, physician
** Apollonius of Citium (fl. 1st century BC), physician
* Apollonius of Perga (late 3rd–early 2nd centuries BC), geometer and astronomer

#### Other

* Apollonius of Myndus, ancient astrologer said to be skilled with horoscopes

### Modern world

* Apollonius Schotte (c. 1579–1639), Dutch statesman
* Apollonius von Maltitz (1795–1870), Russian diplomat

## Fictional characters

* Apollonius of Tyre, medieval fictional character