Hieronymus
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Hieronymus, pronounced is the Greek and Latin form of the given name Jerome and means "sacred name."
Notable persons with that given name include:
- Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen, famous recounter of tall tales, fictionalized as Baron Munchausen (1720–1797)
- Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome (c. 347 – 420)
- Hiëronymus Emiliani, better known as St. Jerome Emiliani (1486–1537)
- Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian
- Hieronymus of Rhodes, Greek peripatetic philosopher of the 3rd century BC
- Hieronymus of Syracuse, Greek tyrant
- Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist
- Hieronymus Cock, Flemish painter and etcher
- Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
- Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
- Hieronymus Praetorius, German Composer
- Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German chemist
- Hieronymus Vietor (ca. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków
- Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver
- Hieronymus Wolf, German historian
- Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician
- Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel
- Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, German botanist
- Otto Hieronymus, German engineer
- Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
- Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
- Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, fictional character
- Charlie Hieronymus Pace, fictional character
- Holger Hieronymus, German former football player
- Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046-1062
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See also
- Hieronymus machine, a pseudoscientific device
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