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Ananias ben Onias Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, ''Hananiya ben Honiyyahu'') was the son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV. Onias won the favor of Ptolemy VI, who ...

, general of Cleopatra III *

Ananias of Adiabene Ananias of Adiabene (; c. 15 BCE – c. 30 CE) was a Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer, probably of Hellenistic origin, who, in the opening years of the Christian common era, was prominent at the court of Abinergaos I (Abennerig), kin ...

( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I *

Ananias son of Nedebeus Ananias son of Nedebeus (Hebrew: חנניה בן נדבאי ''Ḥananyá ben Nadváy'' "…(son of) the philanthropist") was a high priest who according to the Acts of the Apostles presided during the trials of the apostle Paul at Jerusalem ( Acts ...

, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea *

Ananias and Sapphira Ananias (; ) and his wife Sapphira (; ) were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem. The account records their sudden deaths after lying to the Holy Spirit ...

, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God *

Ananias of Damascus Ananias of Damascus ( ; , romanized: ''Ananíās''; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: ''Ḥananyō''; "favoured of the ") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by ...

or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of

St. Paul Paul, also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle ( AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally ...

* Ananias III, a saint in the 3rd century *

Ananias (Persian) Ananias may refer to: People Mononyms * Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III * Ananias of Adiabene ( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I * Ananias son of Nedebeus, first cent ...

(died 345), priest and fellow martyr of Shemon Bar Sabbae * Ananias of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century *

Ananias I of Armenia Catholicos Ananias I, also known as Anania Mokatsi, was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 949 and 968. His predecessor Yeghishe had been deposed as Catholicos and by church regulations no one could be elected during his lifeti ...

(died 968) *

Ananias of Lakedaemonia Saint Ananias Metropolitan of Lakedaemonia (17th or 18th century - April 1764), born as Anastasios Theofilis-Labardis, was a Greek cleric, metropolitan of Lacedaemonia and an ethno-martyr shortly before the Orlovian revolution. He was born at ...

(died 1764) *

Ananias (Jafaridze) Ananias (Georgian language, Georgian ანანია) (Japaridze Tenghiz Anatolievich, born August 20, 1949, Tkibuli, Georgia (country), Georgia) is the Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetritsqaro, Tetri-Tskaro of the ...

(born 1949), Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox Church *

Ananias (footballer) Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro (20 January 1989 – 28 November 2016), known as Ananias, was a Brazilian footballer who last played as an attacking midfielder for Chapecoense. Ananias was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crash ...

(1989–2016), Brazilian footballer

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Frans Ananias Frans Page Ananias (born 1 December 1972) is a Namibian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He was capped 29 times by the Namibia national team and scored one goal, and played for Namibia at the 1998 African Cup of Nations. He played c ...

(born 1972), Namibian retired footballer

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Ananías Diokno Ananías Diokno y Noblejas (January 22, 1860 – November 2, 1922) was reputedly the only Philippine Revolutionary Army general to lead a full-scale military expedition to the Visayas against the Spanish forces. Also known as ''General of the S ...

(1860–1922), Leader of the Filipino Visayan forces against the US during the Philippine–American War; grandfather of José W. Diokno *

Ananias Dare Ananias Dare (c. 1560 – 1587, ''legal death'') was a colonist of the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church in London, and the father of Virginia Dare, the first English child born ...

( 1560–1587), husband of Eleanor White and father of Virginia Dare, whose birth was the first to English parents in North America *

Ananias Davisson Ananias Davisson (February 2, 1780 – October 21, 1857) was a singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks. He is best known for his 1816 compilation '' Kentucky Harmony'', which is the first Southern shape-note tunebook. ...

(1780–1857), American singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks *

Ananías Maidana Ananías Maidana (26 July 192330 October 2010) was a teacher and politician in Paraguay. For years he was a political prisoner under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. He later became secretary-general of the Paraguayan Communist Party, an ...

(1923–2010), teacher and politician in Paraguay

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* ''Ananias'' (gastropod), an extinct genus in family

Eotomariidae Eotomariidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the clade Vetigastropoda Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes ...

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