Pagan (name)

"Paganus" redirects here. For the original meaning of the word, see Paganism.

Pagan, also Paganus, Pain or Payn, was a masculine given name in use in Europe the Middle Ages. Other forms include French Payen, Païen or Péan, and Italian Pagano.

• Pagan I, lord of Haifa in 1107–1112
• Pagan the Chancellor (d. bef. 1129), crusader administrator
• Pain fitzJohn (d. 1137), Anglo-Norman administrator
• Pagan the Butler (d. 1149), crusader baron
• Payn, sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1155–1161
• Payn de Beauchamp (d. c. 1157), husband of Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex
• Payn de Rochefort, seneschal of Anjou in 1190
• Pagan II, lord of Haifa in 1190s
• Pagano della Torre (d. 1365), Italian prelate

See also

• Pagan of Bulgaria (d. 768), an unrelated name
• Pagan Kennedy (born 1963), zine author