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Some notable people who have been referred to by Latinised names are:

• Abulcasis (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi)
• Gustavus II Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf)
• Leo Africanus (Al-Hassan al-Wazzan al-Fasi)
• Pierius Magnus (Pier Gerlofs Donia)
• Albatenius (Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī)
• Aldus Manutius (Aldo Manuzio)
• Algoritmi (Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī)
• Alhacen (Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham)
• Alpetragius (Nur ed-Din al-Betrugi)
• Alphonsus (various rulers named Alfonso)
• Abunaser Alpharabius (Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi)
• Americus Vespucius (Amerigo Vespucci)
• Anselmus Cantuariensis (Anselmo d'Aosta)
• Petrus Apianus (Peter Apian)
• Thomas Aquinas (Tommaso d'Aquino)
• Guido Aretinus (Guido d'Arezzo)
• Arminius (Hermann der Cherusker)
• Jacobus Arminius (Jacob Harmenszoon)
• Arzachel (Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī)
• Augustinus Cantuariensis (Augustine of Canterbury)
• Avempace (Ibn Bajjah)
• Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr)
• Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina Abū ‘Alī al-Husayn)
• Azophi (Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi)
• Johannes Balbus (Giovanni Balbi)
• Benedictus de Spinoza (Baruch Spinoza)
• Boadicea (Boudica)
• Carolus Borromeus (Carlo Borromeo)
• Brocardus (Burchard)
• Calid (Khalid ibn Yazid)
• Camellus (Georg Joseph Kamel)
• Hieronymus Cardanus (Gerolamo Cardano)
• Carolus Magnus (Karl)
• Renatus Cartesius (René Descartes)
• Conrad Celtes (Conrad Pickel)
• Aelius Lampridius Cervinus (Ilija Crijević or Elio Lampridio Cerva)
• Clavius (Christoph Clau or Klau)
• Clovis (Clodovech, Frankish King)
• Iohannes Cochanovius (Jan Kochanowski)
• Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo)
• Iohannes Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský)
• Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (Niklas Koppernigk)
• Laurentius Corvinus (Lorenz Rabe)
• Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerardo da Cremona)
• Nicolaus Cusanus (Nikolaus von Kues)
• Dreses (Muhammad al-Idrisi)
• Desiderius Erasmus (Gerrit Gerritszoon)
• Thomas Erastus (Thomas Lieber or Lüber)
• Thomas Erpenius (Thomas van Erpe)
• Leonhardus Eulerus (Leonhard Euler)
• Eustachius (Bartolomeo Eustachi)
• Hieronymus Fabricius (Girolamo Fabrizi)
• Fallopius (Gabriele Falloppio)
• Marsilius Ficinus (Marsilio Ficino)
• Armen Firman (Abbas ibn Firnas)
• Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro)
• Iohannes Freinsheimius (Johann Freinsheim)
• Gemma Frisius (Reiner Gemma)
• Siddarthus Gautamus (Gautama Buddha)
• Geber (Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan)
• Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah)
• Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom)
• Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot)
• Joseph Guarnerius (Giuseppe Guarneri)
• Johannes Hevelius (Johannes Hewelcke)
• Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen Bosch)
• Christianus Hugenius (Christiaan Huygens)
• Martinus Hylacomylus or Ilacomilus (Martin Waldseemüller)
• Cornelius Iansenius (Cornelius Jansen)
• Iohannes Iessenius (János Jeszenszky or Ján Jesenský)
• Ignatius de Loyola (Ignacio de Loyola)
• Jacobus de Cessolis (Jacopo da Cessole)
• Jesu Occulist (Ali Ibn Isa)
• Johannes Antonius Scopoli (Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
• Johannitius (Hunayn ibn Ishaq)
• Jesus, Jesus Nazarenus, Jesus Christus (Yĕhošūa‘)
• Iohannes Keplerus (Johannes Kepler)
• Laocius (Lao Zi)
• Orlandus Lassus (Orlande de Lassus or Orlando di Lasso)
• Aloysius Lilius (Luigi Giglio)
• Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)
• Iustus Lipsius (Joost Lips)
• Mahomet (Muhammad)
• Moses Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon)
• Mencius (Meng Zi)
• Gerardus Mercator (Gheert Cremer or Gerard de Cremere)
• Morinus (Jean-Baptiste Morin)
• Joannes Morinus (Jean Morin)
• Thomas Morus (Thomas More)
• Ben Mousa (Banū Mūsā)
• Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame)
• Odoacer (Audawakrs)
• Ianus Pannonius (János Csezmicei or Ivan Česmički)
• Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim; Paracelsus (Phillip von Hohenheim)
• Franciscus Patricius (Frane Petrić/Petris/Petrišević, Francesco Patrizi da Cherso)
• Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg)
• Johannes Rhodius (Hinne Rode)
• Andreas Rivetus (André Rivet)
• Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita (Antonín Maria Šírek z Reity)
• Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone)
• Willibrordus Snellius (Willibrord Snel)
• Socinus (Lelio Sozzini)
• Faustus Socinus (Fausto Paolo Sozzini)
• Johannes Stadius (Jan Van Ostaeyen or Jean Stade)
• Antonius Stradivarius (Antonio Stradivari)
• Actius Syncerus (Jacopo Sannazaro)
• Abubacer Aben Tofail (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail)
• Tusi (Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī)
• Tycho Brahe (Tyge Ottesen Brahe)
• Guido Ubaldus (Guidobaldo del Monte)
• Andreas Vesalius (Andries van Wesel)

See also

• List of Latin nicknames of the Middle Ages