Virgil (disambiguation)
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Virgil and Vergil are the most common modern English names used for the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC-19 BC).
Other famous people and characters called Virgil, Vergil, Virgilius, or Vergilius include:
- Virgil Aldrich (1903-1998), an American philosopher.
- Virgil Bogue (1846-1916), municipal planning director of Seattle.
- Virgil Donati, drummer.
- Virgil Earp (1843-1905), city marshal of Tombstone, Arizona.
- Virgil Exner (1909-1973), an American automobile designer.
- Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), science fiction illustrator.
- Virgil Fox (1912–1980), an American organist.
- Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (1926-1967), an American astronaut and one of the first to die in the U.S. space program.
- Virgil Goode (1946-), member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1996-.
- Virgil Hill, an American boxer.
- Mike Jones, a professional wrestler known as "Virgil."
- Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, a medieval writer known as "Virgil the Grammarian."
- Virgil Moorefield (1956-), an American drummer and composer.
- Virgil Franklin Partch, an American gag cartoonist.
- Virgil Runnels, Jr. (1945-), an American professional wrestler known as "Dusty Rhodes."
- St. Vergilius of Salzburg, an eighth-century Irish-born bishop who believed the earth was round and was accused of believing in "men living under the earth."
- Vergil Sparda, a video game character loosely based on the Roman poet.
- Virgil Oliver Stamps (1892-1940), a shape note singer and composer.
- Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), an American composer.
- Johnny Virgil (1974-), a Brazilian poet.
- Polydore Vergil (1470-1555), an English historian during the Tudor period.
- Virgil (Xena), a fictional character from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, he was the son of the character Joxer.
- Virgil Sollozzo, the traitorous Tattalgia caporegime from Mario Puzo's The Godfather, and the subsequent film adaptation.
Virgil is also the name of several places in North America:
- in Canada:
Virgil may also be:
- Sanctus Virgilius, a student society.
- Virgil C. Summer (Summer) Nuclear Generating Station, an American nuclear power station.
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