Lupus (name)

Lupus means "wolf" in Latin. It was a Latin cognomen and since then has also become a given name and family name.

Lupus may refer to:

• *Wulfstan (died 956), Archbishop of York, who wrote under the pen name Lupus
• Lupus of Troyes (ca. 383 - ca. 478), French bishop and saint
• Lupus of Sens (d. 623), French bishop and saint
• Lupus I of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony and Aquitaine from about 670
• Lupo II of Gascony (died 778), third-attested historical duke of Gascony
• Lupo III Centule of Gascony (died c. 820), Duke of Gascony 818-819
• Lupus Servatus (c. 805 – c. 862), French abbot, theological writer and member of Charles the Bald's court
• Cornelius Lupus, Roman statesman
• Giovanni Luppis (1813-1875), Austrian Naval officer and the first to conceive of the self-propelled torpedo
• Peter Lupus (born 1932), American bodybuilder and actor
• Peter Lupus III, American actor, the son of Peter Lupus
• Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, known as Hugh Lupus