Pius

Pius (/ˈpaɪəs/ PY-əs, Latin: [ˈpiːʊs]; Latin for 'pious') is a masculine given name. Its feminine form is Pia.

It may refer to:

People

Monarch

• Antoninus Pius (86–161), Roman emperor

Popes

• Pope Pius (disambiguation)
• Antipope Pius XIII (1918–2009), who led the breakaway True Catholic Church sect

Given name

• Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019), Nigerian-born Canadian academic and author
• Pius Bazighe (born 1972), Nigerian javelin thrower
• Pius Font i Quer (1888–1964), Catalan botanist, pharmacist and chemist
• Pius Bonifacius Gams (1816–1892), German Benedictine ecclesiastical historian
• Pius Heinz (born 1989), German poker player
• Pius Lasisi Jimoh (1950–2014), Nigerian politician
• Pius F. Koakanu (died 1885), Hawaiian politician
• Pius Langa (1939–2013), South African lawyer and judge
• Pius Lee, American political power broker and landlord
• Pius Malip (died 1988), Papua New Guinean politician
• Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt (1858–1915), German painter, illustrator and watercolorist
• Pius Ncube (born 1946), Zimbabwean Catholic Archbishop and outspoken critic of Robert Mugabe
• Pius N. Okeke (born 1941), Nigerian astronomer and educator
• Pius Paschke (born 1990), German ski jumper
• Pius Fidelis Pinto (born 1960), Indian priest and research scholar
• Pius Schwert (1892-1941), American politician and baseball player
• Pius Suter (born 1996), Swiss ice hockey player
• Pius Vilakati, Swazi democracy activist
• Pius Walder (1952–1982), Austrian lumberjack and poacher
• Pius Zingerle (1801–1881), Austrian Orientalist
• Yi Kang (1877-1955), Korean Prince who took on the name Pius after converting to Roman Catholicism

Surname

• Maiken Pius (née Schmidt, born 1985), Estonian actress
• Märt Pius (born 1989), Estonian actor
• Priit Pius (born 1989), Estonian actor
• Saara Pius (née Kadak, born 1990), Estonian actress and singer

Fictional characters

• Pius Thicknesse, in the Harry Potter series
• Pius XIII the eponymous Pope in the HBO series The Young Pope
• Pius XV, in the Babylon 5 science fiction saga, a fictional early 22nd century pope featured in the novel Dark Genesis

See also

• PIUS reactor, a Swedish design for a nuclear reactor not reliant on active safety measures
• Pius, epithet of Trojan hero Aeneas
• Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161)
• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (c. 130-63 BC), Roman consul and soldier
• Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor (813-840)
• Pio (given name), the Italian form of Pius