Ananias

Ananias may refer to:

• Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III
• Ananias of Adiabene, Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I
• Ananias and Sapphira, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God
• Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul
• Ananias son of Nedebaios, a high priest who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea
• Ananias III, a saint in the 3rd century
• Ananias (Persian), priest and fellow martyr of Shemon Bar Sabbae (died 345)
• Ananias of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century
• Ananias I of Armenia (died 968)

People with the name

• Frans Ananias (born 1972), Namibian retired footballer
• Ananias Dare (c. 1560–1587), husband of Eleanor White and father of Virginia Dare, whose birth was the first to English parents in North America
• Ananias Davisson (1780–1857), American singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks
• Ananías Maidana (1923–2010), teacher and politician in Paraguay

See also

• Prince Ananias, an operetta composed by Victor Herbert
• Tenente Ananias, a town and municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.
• Jesus ben Ananias, madman who predicted the fall of Jerusalem c. 62 CE
• Anania (name)
• Hananiah (disambiguation)