Africanus
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Africanus, in Latin, means "of Africa". It can refer to:
- a cognomen of ancient Rome associated with the gens Scipio, including among others
- several people named Scipio Africanus; see Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)
- Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd century Roman legal scholar
- Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century
- Leo Africanus (1488–1554)
- George John Scipio Africanus (1763—1834), a West African negro slave
- Africanus Horton (1835-1883), also known as James Beale, a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
- many plants and animals the second part of whose binomial name is "africanus"