Cornelius Moses Butler Cornelius is an originally Roman masculine name. Its derivation is uncertain but is suspected to be from the Latin cornu , "horn".[ 1]
Cornelius as a surname
Aaron Cornelius (born 1990), Australian rules footballerAjani Cornelius (born 2002), American football playerAlvin Robert Cornelius (1903–1991), Pakistani jurist and politicianAndreas Cornelius (born 1993), Danish footballerBernard Cornelius (1919–1987), English cricketerBilly Cornelius (1898–?), English footballerCarter Cornelius (1948–1991), American politicianCharles Cornelius (born 1945), Indian field hockey playerCharles Cornelius (gridiron football) (born 1952), American football playerCleighton Cornelius (born 1976), New Zealand cricketerDean Cornelius (born 2001), Scottish footballerDeborah Cornelius , British actressDerek Cornelius (born 1997), Canadian soccer playerDon Cornelius (1936–2012), the creator and first host of Soul Train Eddie Cornelius , American gospel singerElias Cornelius (1794–1832), American missionaryEverton Cornelius (born 1955), Antigua and Barbuda sprinterGeorge Cornelius (Secretary) , American politicianHans Cornelius (1863–1947), German philosopherHelen Cornelius (born 1941), American singer-songwriter and actressIngeborg Cornelius (1930–2023), Austrian actressJacob Cornelius (born 1984), American rowerJemalle Cornelius (born 1984), American football playerJohanna Cornelius (1912–1974), Afrikaner activist and trade unionistKathy Cornelius (born 1932), American golferKeenan Cornelius (born 1992), American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA fighterKeithroy Cornelius (born 1968), U.S. Virgin Islands cricketer and footballerLaura Cornelius (born 1996), Dutch basketball playerLloyd Cornelius (born 1943), Guyanese cricketerMichael G. Cornelius , American academic and authorNelarine Cornelius (born 1957), British academicNorman Cornelius (1886–1963), English cricketerPatricia Cornelius (born 1952), Australian playwrightPeter Cornelius (disambiguation) , multiple peopleReid Cornelius (born 1970), American baseball player and coachRobert Cornelius (1809–1893), American photographerStan Cornelius (1941–2005), American lawyer, politician and record producerStella Cornelius (1919–2010), Australian businesswoman and peace activistTaylor Cornelius (born 1995), American football playerThomas R. Cornelius (1827–1899), American politicianTiffany Cornelius (born 1989), Luxembourgish tennis playerTroy Cornelius (born 1983), Guyanese cricketerWade Cornelius (born 1978), New Zealand cricketerWanda Cornelius , American politicianWayne A. Cornelius (born 1945), American political scientist and academic
Cornelius as a given name
Cornelius (musician) , stage name of Japanese recording artist and producer Keigo OyamadaCorneille (singer) , stage name of Cornelius Nyungura, German-born Québécois rhythm and blues singerCornelius Agrippa , 15th-century German magician and cabalistCornelius W. Armstrong (1827–after 1872), New York politicianCornelius Bennett , American football playerCornelius Boza-Edwards , Ugandan Super Featherweight boxing championCornelius M. Brosnan (1813–1867), Justice of the Supreme Court of NevadaCornelius Burger , South African serial killerCornelius Burges , English ministerCornelius Cardew , English composerCornelius the Centurion , considered by Christians to be the first Gentile convertedCornelius Castoriadis , Greek-French astronomer, philosopherCornelius Crane Chase, better known under his stage name Chevy Chase , actor and comedian
Cornelius Coe , American football playerCornelius Cole , Governor of CaliforniaCornelius P. Comegys , American farmer and politicianCornelius Fuscus , prefect of the Praetorian GuardCornelius Edward Gallagher (1921–2018), American politicianSir Cornelius Greenfield (born 1909), Rhodesian civil servantCornelius Hankins (1863–1946), American painterCornelius Hardy , Australian convictCornelius Henry , Canadian cricketerCornelius T. Herring (1849–1931), American rancher, banker and hotelierCornelius Holland (regicide) , regicide of Charles I of EnglandCornelius Holland (politician) , United States Representative from MaineCornelius Jakhelln , Norwegian musicianCornelius Johnson (athlete) , African-American high jump athleteCornelius L. Keedy , American pastor, physician, and academic administratorCornelius Lanczos , Hungarian mathematician and physicistCornelius Lysaght , horse racing correspondentCornelius McGillicuddy Sr., better known as Connie Mack , baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager
Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy III, better known as Connie Mack III , senator from Florida
Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV, better known as Connie Mack IV , congressman from Florida
Cornelius Mwalwanda (died 2020), Malawian politician and economistCornelius Nepos , Roman historian of GaulCornelius Pot , Dutch football coachCornelius Roosevelt (1794–1871), American businessmanCornelius V. S. Roosevelt (1951–1991), American veteranCornelius Ryan (1920–1974), author of The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far Cornelio Saavedra , first President of Argentina 1810Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., birth name of Robert Byrd , senator and congressman from West Virginia
Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders , South African boxerCornelius Sherlock (died 1888), British architectCornelius Staley (1808–1883), American politician from MarylandCornelius Van Til , Dutch-American Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologistCornelius Vander Starr , American founder of AIGCornelius Vanderbilt , American industrialistCornelius Wiebe , Canadian physician and politicianCornelius Whitehouse (1796–1883), English engineer and inventorPope Cornelius , pope from AD 251 to 253Metropolitan Cornelius , several peopleSt. Cornelius (disambiguation) , several saintsCornelius Adam Igbudu (1914–1981), founder of the Anglican Adam Preaching Society
Fictional characters
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Cornelius (Planet of the Apes ) , from the Planet of the Apes film seriesCornelius, an old elephant counsellor from the Babar the Elephant children's books and animated TV series
Prince Cornelius, faery prince from the 1994 film Thumbelina
Cornelius, an alias used by The Narrator in Fight Club
Cornelius Coot , in the Scrooge McDuck universeCornelius Fillmore , in the animated series Fillmore! Cornelius Fudge , from the Harry Potter seriesGibby Cornelius Gibson, one of the main characters of Nickelodeon's iCarly
Cornelius Hackl from the musical Hello, Dolly!
Cornelius "Cory" Matthews, the main character of Boy Meets World
Lewis "Cornelius" Robinson, the adult character of Lewis in Meet the Robinsons
Cornelius Stirk , in the DC UniverseCornelius Austerlin, the stepdad in Lene Kaaberbøl 's books about Katriona
Cornelius, an elderly ant in the 1998 film A Bug's Life
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