Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)

Scipio Africanus (disambiguation)

There were three people named Scipio Africanus:

*Scipio Africanus ("Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus," 235–183 BC), Roman general who defeated Hannibal, to whom the name Scipio Africanus usually refers
* Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (185–129 BC), adopted grandson of the elder Scipio Africanus. He is usually called Africanus or Scipio Africanus by Cicero
*Scipio Africanus (slave), 18th century British slave
*Scipio Africanus Jones (1863–1943), African American educator, jurist, and politician
*George Africanus ("George John Scipio Africanus," 1763–1834), West African slave who became an entrepreneur in England
*Scipio, a character in Cornelia Funke's "The Thief Lord"


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