Maurus
# Maurus

Maurus is a Latin given name. It can refer to:

## Persons

### Saints

* Saint Maurus of Parentium (3rd century), the first bishop of Parentium and the patron saint of Poreč
* Saint Maurus (c. 500 - c. 584), the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia
* Blessed Maurus Magnentius Rabanus (Hrabanus) (c. 776 (784?) - 856)
* Saint Maurus of Pécs, the second bishop of Pécs, and abbey of Pannonhalma (c. 1000-c. 1075)

### Others

* Servius the Grammarian, commentator on Vergil sometimes called Maurus Servius in medieval manuscripts
* Maurus of Salerno [de] (c.1130 - 1214), medical writer and teacher
* Mister Maurus, an archetypical school teacher developed by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
* Sylvester Maurus (1619-1687), Italian Jesuit theologian
* Kuber (Maurus the Kuber), brother to Tervel's father Asparukh and son of Kubrat Kaghan of Patria Onoguria
* Maurus, religious name of secret agent monk Alexander Horn

## Other uses

* The inhabitants of Mauretania, ancient kingdom and late Roman province
* Maurus, a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies
