Plancius

Plancius is:

• a Roman gentile name, see Plancier . Relatives are:
  • Gnaeus Plancius (tax farmer) (1st century BC), served under Licinius Crassus in Spain
  • Gnaeus Plancius (Quaestor 58 BC) , supported the exiled Cicero
  • Marcus Plancus Varus (1st century), Roman senator, proconsul of the province of Pontus-Bythinia, leading citizen of Perge
  • Caius Plancus Varus (2nd century), Roman senator, probably suffect consul under Hadrian, leading citizen of Perge
• Petrus Plancius (1552–1622), Dutch theologian, astronomer and cartographer
• (10648) Plancius , an asteroid of the main belt
• SS Plancius , a mail steamer named after Petrus Plancius of the Dutch shipping company Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM)
• MS Plancius , a passenger expedition ship built in 1976 for 114 passengers, 89 meters long, 14.5 meters wide, 5 meters draft, home port Vlissingen

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.