Candidus
Candidus is the Latin form of the name Candid .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Candidus (saint) († ~ 302?), According to legend, an officer of the Theban Legion under St. Mauritius
- Candidus (historian) , a late antique historian
- Candidus Hemmerlein (1743–1814), abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Langheim
- Brun Candidus von Fulda (* approx. 770–780, † 845), priest monk, writer, painter
- Candidus Pfiffer (1631–1718), Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Baumgartenberg.
- Candidus Pfister († 1704), abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Ebrach
Middle name
- Rainer Candidus Barzel (1924-2006), German politician
family name
- Carl August Candidus (1817–1871)
- Daniel Candidus (1568–1637), pseudonym of the Lutheran theologian and chronicler Daniel Cramer
- Friedrich Candidus (1904–1986), German local poet and senior teacher
- Pantaleon Candidus (1540–1608; actually: Pantaleon Weiss ), Austrian Reformed theologian
- William Candidus (1840–1910), German-American tenor
Cognomen
- Albucius Candidus , Roman officer (imperial era)
- Tiberius Iulius Candidus Marius Celsus , Roman consul 86 and 105
- Tiberius Iulius Candidus Capito , Roman suffect consul 122, son of the previous one
- Tiberius Iulius Candidus (Arvalbruder) , Roman priest and member of the college of the Arvalbrothers, 105-139 AD, also probably the son of Marius Celsus
- Tiberius Iulius Candidus Caecilius Simplex , Roman priest and member of the college of the Arval Brothers, approx. 102–145, probably the older brother of the previous one
- (Tiberius Iulius?) Candidus Celsus , alleged proconsul of Asia, but maybe also a local official
- Iulius Candidus (Proconsul) , Proconsul of Achaia under Hadrian, 134-137 AD.
- Iulius Candidus (a rationibus) , a rationibus and friend of the emperor Commodus, end of the 2nd century
- Iulius Candidus (Legio I Italica) , centurion of the Legio I Italica in the 2nd or 3rd century
- Iulius Candidus (Legio XX Valeria Victrix) , centurion of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix
- Tiberius Claudius Candidus , Roman knight and senator, late 2nd century
- Nikolaus Candidus († 1555), Carmelite and theologian (actually Nikolaus Blanckart )