Pontius (name)

Pontius is an old family name and male given name .

Origin and meaning

Pontius is an old family name ( nomen gentile ) of an originally Samnite family. Later it is attested for a Roman family.

Well-known namesake

In the ancient

• Gaius Pontius , a Samnite general in the second half of the 4th century BC. Chr.
• Lucius Pontius Aquila , one of the conspirators in the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar
• Pontius Pilate , the Roman governor in Judea at the time of Jesus' execution
• Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus , Roman consul 37 AD
• Marcus Pontius Sabinus , Roman suffect consul 153
• Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus , Roman governor
• Marcus Pontius Laelianus , Roman consul
• Titus Pontius Sabinus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Pontius Asclepiodotus , Roman governor
• Pontius von Cimiez , Christian martyr and saint
• Pontius , deacon and writer in Carthage, mid-3rd century
• Pontius Proculus Pontianus , Roman politician and senator (from 238)

In the middle ages

• Raimund III. Pons , Count of Toulouse since 924
• Pons of Toulouse , Count of Toulouse since 1037
• Pontius of Melgueil († 1126), from 1109 the seventh abbot of Cluny
• Johannes Pontius (1599 / 1603–1672 / 1673), Irish Franciscan, known as Johannes Poncius

In the present

• Alfred Pontius (1907–1948), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Chris Pontius (* 1974), American action artist
• Chris Pontius (soccer player) (* 1987), American soccer player