Lupus (name)

Lupus means "wolf" in Latin. It was a Latin cognomen and since then has also become a given name and family name.

Lupus may refer to:

*Wulfstan (died 956), Archbishop of York, who wrote under the pen name Lupus
Lupus of Troyes (ca. 383 - ca. 478), French bishop and saint
Lupus of Sens (d. 623), French bishop and saint
Lupus I of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony and Aquitaine from about 670
Lupo II of Gascony (died 778), third-attested historical duke of Gascony
Lupo III Centule of Gascony (died c. 820), Duke of Gascony 818-819
Lupus Servatus (c. 805 – c. 862), French abbot, theological writer and member of Charles the Bald's court
Cornelius Lupus, Roman statesman
Giovanni Luppis (1813-1875), Austrian Naval officer and the first to conceive of the self-propelled torpedo
Peter Lupus (born 1932), American bodybuilder and actor
Peter Lupus III, American actor, the son of Peter Lupus
Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, known as Hugh Lupus

Family and given names derived from the word "wolf"

Germanic	Volf, Ulf Wolfe, Wolf, Wolff, Wulf, Woolf, De Wolfe Wolfson, Wolfsohn Wolfowitz

Romance	Lupus Loup, Leloup Lobo López, Lopes Lupo Lupu, Lupul, Lupescu

Slavic	Wilk, Wilczek, Wilczyński Vlk, Vlček Vuk, Vukčević, Vukić, Vuković, Vučić, Vučko, Vučković, Vujić (and numerous variants) Volkov, Volchenkov Vovk

Other	Farkas Kurt Otxoa Ze'ev/Zev

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