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