Aquila is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Ancient and biblical

Priscilla and Aquila Priscilla and Aquila were a first-century Christian missionary married couple described in the New Testament. Aquila is traditionally listed among the Seventy Disciples. They lived, worked, and traveled with the Apostle Paul, who described them ...

, a New Testament couple who assisted Paul of Tarsus *

Aquila of Sinope Aquila (Hebrew language, Hebrew: עֲקִילַס ''ʿăqīlas'', Floruit, fl. 130 Common Era, CE) of Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey; ) was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek language, Greek, a proselyte, and disciple of Rabbi Akiva. R ...

, second-century translator of the Old Testament * Aquila Romanus, a third-century Latin grammarian * Pontius Aquila, first-century B.C. Roman tribune of the plebs

Medieval and renaissance

Caspar Aquila Caspar Aquila (sometimes Kaspar or Gaspar Aquila; 7 August 148812 November 1560), born Johann Kaspar Adler, was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer. Biography He was born at Augsburg, and educated there, at Ulm (1502), in Italy (he met Era ...

(1488–1560), German reformer * Nicholas de Aquila (died after 1220), English bishop * Peter of Aquila (died 1361), Italian theologian * Pietro Aquila (c. 1630-1692), Italian painter * Richard II of Aquila, 12th-century Italo-Norman Count of Fondi * Serafino dell' Aquila (1466–1500), Italian poet

Modern

*Aquila Chase (17th century), early Puritan settler in the American colonies and founder of the influential

Chase family The Chase family is an English family whose members included early American pioneers and those involved in politics, the clergy, business and the military. Originating in Chesham, England, brothers Aquila Chase II and Thomas Chase journeyed to Ne ...

Aquila Emil Aquila Emil (died 4 February 2011) was a Papua New Guinean rugby league player who represented Papua New Guinea . Playing career Emil played for Port Moresby's Brothers rugby league club during the 1980s. He was selected for the Papua New Guin ...

(died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer * Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Pakistani scholar * Frank Aquila, a Manitoba judge * Frank J. Aquila (born 1957), American lawyer * Samuel J. Aquila (born 1950), Roman Catholic bishop

Ancient and biblical

Medieval and renaissance

Modern

See also