Justus (given name)
Justus is a given name, meaning "just", "fair", or "righteous". The name is related to the similar Latin name Justinian and the English name Justin.
The given name may refer to:
Religious and biblical figures
- Justus of Eleutheropolis or Joseph Barsabbas, in the New Testament the man not chosen by lot to take Judas Iscariot's place among the Apostles, later Bishop of Eleutheropolis and martyr
- Pope Justus of Alexandria, Pope of Alexandria and a saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Justus of Beauvais, semi-legendary Christian saint
- Justus of Trieste, Christian saint
- Justus, Christian martyr - see Justus and Pastor
- Justus of Lyon, 13th bishop of Lyon
- Justus of Urgell, Spanish bishop and saint
- Justus of Vienne, 6th century bishop of Vienne
- Justus, fourth Archbishop of Canterbury
- Justus Falckner, Lutheran minister and first Lutheran pastor to be ordained within the United States
- Justus Gesenius, German Lutheran theologian
- Justus Jonas, German Lutheran reformer
- Justus Knecht, German Catholic theologian, writer and bishop
- Justus Trettel, American Benedictine monk
Artists and entertainers
- Justus D. Barnes, American actor in The Great Train Robbery
- Justus Esiri, Nigerian actor
- Justus Frantz, German pianist, conductor and television personality
- Justus van Gent, painter from Ghent
- Justus Hagman, Swedish actor
- Justus van Huysum, Dutch painter
- Justis Ellis McQueen, Jr., stage name L. Q. Jones, American actor
- Justus Sustermans Flemish painter and draughtsman
- Justus Zeyen, German classical pianist and song accompanist
Sportspeople
- Justus Hollatz, German basketball player
- Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg II, American billiards champion known as the "father of amateur billiards"
- Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg III, American billiards champion
- Justus Ross-Simmons, American football player
- Justus Sheffield, American baseball player
- Justus Soget, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Justus Strid, Danish retired figure skater
- Justus Tavai, American football player
- Justus Thigpen, American basketball player
- Justus Torsutsey, Ghanaian footballer
Other
- Justus of Tiberias, Jewish author and historian
- Justin II), son of Roman Emperor Justin II
- Justus Claproth, German jurist and inventor of the deinking process of recycled paper.
- Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect, teacher and writer
- Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver and publisher
- Justus B. Entz, American electrical engineer and inventor
- Justus ǁGaroëb, Namibian traditional leader and politician
- Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer and botanist
- Justus Hecker, German physician and medical writer
- Justus von Liebig, German chemist
- Justus Lipsius, Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher and humanist
- Justus McKinstry, United States Army officer
- Justus Möser, German jurist and social theorist
- Justus Mühlenpfordt, German nuclear physicist
- Justus Olshausen, German orientalist and philologist
- Justus Perthes, original editor of the Almanach de Gotha, a directory of royalty and nobility
- Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I, American botanist
- Justus Cornelius Ramsey, American politician
- Justus Rosenberg, Polish literature professor who saved many people from the Nazis during World War II and served in the French Resistance
- Justus Ludwig Adolf Roth, German geologist and mineralogist
- Justus Scheibert, Prussian army officer whose writings about the American Civil War influenced Prussian and later German military strategy
- Justus Georg Schottelius, German grammarian
- Justus Thorner, first owner of the professional baseball franchise now known as the Cincinnati Reds
- Justus Velsius, Dutch humanist, physician and mathematician
- Justus Vingboons, Amsterdam architect
Fictional characters
- Justus Ward, on the American soap opera General Hospital
- Justus (Shakugan no Shana), in the light novel series ''Shakugan no Shana''