Augustus



Gender:
Origin: Latin
398 famous people named Augustus found on Wikipedia.
16927 male, 10 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 460-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 175-th in year 1880
Used in: Ancient-Roman, Dutch

Meanings

Augustus is a masculine given name derived from Augustus, meaning "majestic," "the increaser," or "venerable". Many of its descended forms are August, Augusto, Austin, and Augustine. The Greek translation of the title Augustus was Sebastos, from which the name Sebastian descends.


Masc. proper name, from Latin augustus "venerable" (see august (adj.)). The name originally was a cognomen applied to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus as emperor, with a sense something like "his majesty."


Derived from Latin augere (to increase); majestic, grand, magnificent.

Famous People: 398 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Augustus Founder and first emperor of the Roman Empire
2 Augustus Prew 1987 English actor
3 Augustus II the Strong 1670 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
4 Augustus Pugin 1812 English architect and designer
5 Seimone Augustus 1984 Basketball player
6 Sigismund II Augustus 1520 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
7 Augustus De Morgan 1806 British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)
8 Emanuel Augustus 1975 American boxer
9 Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848 American artist
10 Augustus III of Poland 1696 King of Poland, Elector of Saxony
11 Augustus John 1878 Welsh painter
12 Augustus Sol Invictus 1983
13 Augustus Hill
14 Augustus Pablo 1954 Musician and record producer
15 Augustus Bampfylde, 2nd Baron Poltimore 1837 British BAron
16 Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton 1735 British noble
17 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1827 English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist
18 Augustus d'Este 1794 English member of the Aborigines Protection Society
19 Augustus Clifford 1788 Royal Navy admiral
20 Augustus F. Hawkins 1907 American politician
21 Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel 1725 Royal Navy admiral
22 Augustus Haynes Character from The Wire
23 Augustine Tolton 1854 American priest
24 Augustus Toplady 1740 British divine
25 Augustus Egg 1816 British artist
26 Sherman Augustus 1959 American football player and actor
27 Augustus Edward Hough Love 1863 British mathematician
28 Augustus Owsley Stanley 1867 American state and federal politician
29 Augustus Agar 1890 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
30 Augustus Octavius Bacon 1839 Politician
31 Augustus Le Plongeon 1825 American photographer and archaeologist
32 Augustus D. Juilliard 1836 American philanthropist
33 Augustus Hill Garland 1832 Lawyer and American politician
34 Augustus Moore Herring 1867 Aircraft experimenter
35 Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen
36 John Augustus 1785 Prison reform campaigner
37 Augustus Jackson 1808
38 Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 1579 Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel
39 Augustus Chapman Allen 1806 Co-founder of Houston, Texas
40 Augustus Hare 1834 English writer
41 Augustus B. Woodward 1774 Chief Justice of Michigan territory
42 Augustus Schell 1812 American businessman
43 Augustus Charles Newman 1904 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
44 Augustus Henry Seward 1826 United States Army officer
45 Augustus Dickens 1827 Brother of Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens
46 Augustus E. Willson 1846 American politician
47 Augustus Noble Hand 1869 American judge
48 Augustus Charles Pugin 1762 Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture
49 Augustus Aikhomu 1939 Admiral and politician
50 Augustus Charles Gregory 1819 Australian explorer
51 Kodi Augustus 1987 American basketball player
52 Augustus Washington 1820 American photographer
53 Augustus Hopkins Strong 1836 American theologian
54 Augustus Brine 1769 Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
55 Augustus C. Dodge 1812 American politician
56 Augustus Gilchrist 1989 American basketball player
57 Augustus Peabody Gardner 1865 American politician
58 Augustus Earle 1793 British artist
59 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 1790 American journalist
60 Augustus Harris 1852 Actor
61 Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton 1821 British noble
62 Augustus Wollaston Franks 1826 British museum administrator
63 Augustus Stinchfield 1842 American physician
64 Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster 1791 Irish peer
65 Augustus Siebe 1788 Prussian engineer and inventor
66 Augustus van Horne Ellis 1827 Union United States Army officer
67 Augustus Bradford 1806 American politician
68 Augustus Henry Keane 1833 Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist
69 Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol 1724 British admiral and politician (1724-79)
70 Augustus Matthiessen 1831 British scientist
71 Augustus Magee 1789 American filibuster
72 Augustus Desiré Waller 1856 Physiologist
73 Augustus Smith 1804 Governor of the Isles of Scilly
74 Augustus Jones 1757 Upper Canadian Surveyor
75 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus 1652 German physician and botanist
76 Augustus Maxwell 1820 American politician
77 Augustus Frederick Sherman 1865 American photographer
78 Augustus Thomas 1857 American playwright
79 Augustus Vincent Tack 1870 American artist
80 Augustus Phillips 1874 American actor
81 Augustus Sclafani American mobster
82 Augustus Volney Waller 1816 British neurophysicist
83 Augustus Obuadum Tanoh 1956 Ghanaian politician
84 Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1706 Ruling Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1761 till his death in 1771
85 Augustus C. French 1808 American politician
86 Augustus Wall Callcott 1779 British artist
87 Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 1662 German prince
88 Augustus George Hazard 1802 American businessman
89 Augustus Addison Gould 1805 American conchologist and malacologist
90 Augustus Richard Norton 1946 American academic
91 Augustus Orlebar 1897 British air racer, soldier and RAF officer
92 Augustus Walley 1856 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
93 Augustus Akinloye Federal minister of Nigeria; lawyer
94 Augustus Hall 1814 American politician
95 Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley 1715 English noble
96 Augustus Applegath 1788 Inventor of the vertical printing-press
97 Augustus O. Bourn 1834 American politician
98 Augustus Walker 1912 Royal Air Force air marshals
99 Augustus C. Baldwin 1817 American politician
100 Augustus Edwin Mulready 1844 British artist
101 Augustus Summerfield Merrimon 1830 American politician
102 Augustus G. Paine, Jr. 1866 Businessman
103 Olutoyin Augustus 1979 Nigerian hurdler
104 Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern 1715 Duke of Brunswick-Bevern
105 Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen 1697 Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
106 Augustus Van Wyck 1850 American judge
107 Augustus Leopold Kuper 1809 Royal Navy admiral
108 Augustus Garrett 1801 American politician
109 Augustus Kountze 1826 US businessman
110 Augustus Seymour Porter 1798 American politician
111 Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1822 British admiral
112 Augustus Nicholas Burke 1838 Irish artist
113 Augustus Spencer 1807 British general
114 Augustus Lowell 1830 American philanthropist
115 Augustus Pleasonton 1801 United States general
116 Augustus Nicodemus Lopes 1954 Brazilian minister and theologian
117 Augustus William Hare 1792 British writer
118 Augustus Voelcker 1822 Anglo-German chemist
119 Augustus Nathaniel Lushington 1869 First African American to earn Veterinarian degree
120 Augustus Raymond Margary 1846 British diplomat
121 Augustus Hemenway 1853 American politician
122 Augustus Anson 1835 British army officer and politician
123 Augustus Nuwagaba 1964 Ugandan academic
124 Augustus N. Martin 1847 American politician
125 Augustus Short 1802 Australian bishop
126 Augustus W. Bennet 1897 American politician
127 Augustus Abbott 1804 Army officer
128 Augustus Granville 1783 Italian physician and writer
129 Augustus Case 1812 United States Navy admiral
130 Augustus Daniel Imms 1880 British entomologist
131 Augustus Frank 1826 American politician
132 Augustus F. Gearhard 1893 United States general
133 Augustus Brandegee 1828 American lawyer and politician
134 Augustus John Rush 1942 Singaporean psychiatrist
135 Augustus Molade Akiwumi 1891 Lawyer and Former Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
136 Augustus Porter 1769 American businessman
137 Augustus Jessopp 1823 British school headmaster
138 Augustus Louis Chetlain 1824 Union (American Civil War)Union Union ArmyArmy General officergeneral
139 Augustus Henry Fox 1822 English painter
140 Augustus Pearl Martin 1835 Union United States Army officer
141 Augustus George Vernon Harcourt 1834 Physical chemist
142 Augustus A. Chapman 1803 Confederate Army general
143 Augustus Mongredien 1807 British chess player
144 Augustus Legge 1839 British bishop
145 Augustus Romaldus Wright 1813 Politician, lawyer and judge
146 Augustus Thorndike 1896 American medical academic
147 Augustus C. Hand 1803 American politician
148 Augustus Berkeley Paget 1823 British civil servant, diplomat and ambassador
149 Augustus Granville Dill 1881 American activist
150 Augustus Rowe 1920 Canadian physician and politician (1920-2013)
151 Augustus Herman Pettibone 1835 American politician
152 Augustus W. Cutler 1827 American politician
153 Augustus Kenderdine 1870 British artist
154 Augustus Paulet, 15th Marquess of Winchester 1858 British noble
155 Sir Augustus Foster, 1st Baronet 1780 British diplomat and politician
156 Augustus Rhodes American politician
157 Augustus Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle 1794 English nobleman and Member of Parliament for Arundel from 1820 to 1826
158 Augustus L. Hart 1849 Politician
159 Augustus Constantine Sinclair
160 Augustus Asplet Le Gros 1840 Jersey writer
161 Augustus Radcliffe Grote 1841 British entomologist
162 Augustus Maiyo 1983
163 Augustus Duncombe 1814 Dean of York
164 Augustus Alt 1731 British soldier and engineer
165 Augustus Ulyard 1816 American baker
166 Augustus Parrish 1987 American football player
167 Augustus Stafford 1811 British politician
168 Augustus Clissold 1797 British priest
169 Augustus J. Ricks 1843 United States federal judge
170 August Christian 1769 German prince (1769-1812)
171 Augustus Ludlow 1792 United States Navy officer
172 Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves 1806 Australian politician
173 Augustus F. Goodridge 1839 Canadian politician
174 Augustus Daniel 1866 British curator
175 Ellsworth Hunt Augustus 1897 American boy scouts leader
176 Augustus Rhodes Sollers 1814 American politician
177 Augustus Long 1904 American businessman
178 Augustus Simon Frazer 1776 British Army commander
179 Augustus L. Perrill 1807 American politician
180 Augustus Stephen Vogt 1861 Canadian musician
181 Augustus Baillie 1861 British businessman
182 Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw 1768 British politician
183 Augustus C. Kinney 1845 American physician
184 Augustus Meyers 1841 American writer
185 Augustus Jules Bouvier 1827 British painter
186 Augustus Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe 1829 English philanthropist (1829-1910)
187 Augustus F. Allen 1813 American politician
188 Augustus Barber 1927 American businessman
189 Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann 1756 Composer and musical theorist
190 Augustus Bradford Endicott 1818 American politician
191 Augustus Barrows 1838 American politician
192 Augustus W. Peters 1844 American politician
193 Augustus Caesar Buell 1847 American author
194 Augustus P. Hascall 1800 American politician
195 Augustus Frederick Lindley 1840 Royal Navy officer
196 Augustus Toebbe 1829 Catholic bishop
197 Augustus Meredith Nanton 1860 Canadian businessman
198 Augustus P. Davis 1835
199 Augustus Drum 1815 American politician
200 Augustus Muller 1841 German Jesuit missionary