Petronius (disambiguation)

Petronius (c. AD 27–66) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero, and author of the Satyricon.

Petronius may also refer to:

People

• Members of the Petronia gens, an ancient Roman plebeian family
• Gaius Petronius (c. 75 BC – after 20 BC), Prefect of Roman Aegyptus
• Petronius of Egypt, 4th-century Egyptian Christian monk
• Petronius Maximus, Western Roman emperor in 455
• Peter I of Trani (fl. 11th century), first Norman count of Trani

Other uses

• Petronius (horse), a racehorse
• Petronius (oil platform), in the Gulf of Mexico
• Petronius Paperonius, Donald Duck's ancestor, in comics
• Petronius the Arbiter, a cat in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door into Summer