Pliny

Pliny is the name of the following people:

• Pliny the Elder (approx. 23–79 AD), historian and specialist writer ( Naturalis historia , an encyclopedic natural history)
• Pliny the Younger (61/62 – around 113/115 AD), politician and orator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, author of a collection of letters
• Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799–1851), pseudonym Pliny the Younger , German writer and improviser
• Basilius Pliny (originally Basil Plehn or Plöhne; approx. 1570 - around 1604), Livonian doctor and writer ( song of fame in Riga )
• Pliny Valerianus , alleged author of the pharmaceutical work Physica Plinii

Pliny stands for:

• Pliny (moon crater) , named after Pliny the Elder
• (3226) Pliny , asteroid in the main belt, named after Pliny the Younger

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