Phoebus (first name)

Phoebus , also Phöbus , is a male given name and the counterpart to the female given name Phoebe .

Well-known namesake

• Messius Phoebus Severus , Roman senator in the 5th century
• Uri Phoebus ha-Levi (around 1678), Jewish printer in Amsterdam
• Aaron Uri Phoebus Hart , first Great Rabbi of Great Britain in the 18th century
• Phöbus Philippson (1807-1870), German writer
• Phoebus Levene (1869–1940), Lithuanian-American chemist

pseudonym

• Self-designation of Gaston's III. , French count and general of the 14th century

Figures in art and literature

• Phöbus Böhlaug, one of the main characters in Joseph Roth's novel Hotel Savoy
• Phoebus de Châteaupers , character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• Name of Apollo, a main hero in Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Die transformed Daphne