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Cornelius (musician), stage name of Japanese recording artist and producer Keigo Oyamada •
Corneille (singer), stage name of Cornelius Nyungura, German-born Québécois rhythm and blues singer •
Cornelius Agrippa, 15th-century German magician and cabalist •
Cornelius W. Armstrong (1827–after 1872), New York politician •
Cornelius Bennett, American football player •
Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Ugandan Super Featherweight boxing champion •
Cornelius M. Brosnan (1813–1867), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada •
Cornelius Burger, South African serial killer •
Cornelius Burges, English minister •
Cornelius Cardew, English composer •
Cornelius the Centurion, considered by Christians to be the first Gentile converted •
Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French astronomer, philosopher • Cornelius Crane Chase, better known under his stage name
Chevy Chase, actor and comedian •
Cornelius Coe, American football player •
Cornelius Cole, Governor of California •
Cornelius P. Comegys, American farmer and politician •
Cornelius Fuscus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard •
Cornelius Edward Gallagher (1921–2018), American politician •
Sir Cornelius Greenfield (born 1909), Rhodesian civil servant •
Cornelius Hankins (1863–1946), American painter •
Cornelius Hardy, Australian convict •
Cornelius Henry, Canadian cricketer •
Cornelius T. Herring (1849–1931), American rancher, banker and hotelier •
Cornelius Holland (regicide), regicide of Charles I of England •
Cornelius Holland (politician), United States Representative from Maine •
Cornelius Jakhelln, Norwegian musician •
Cornelius Johnson (athlete), African-American high jump athlete •
Cornelius L. Keedy, American pastor, physician, and academic administrator •
Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist •
Cornelius Lysaght, horse racing correspondent • Cornelius McGillicuddy Sr., better known as
Connie Mack, baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager • Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy III, better known as
Connie Mack III, senator from Florida • Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV, better known as
Connie Mack IV, congressman from Florida •
Cornelius Mwalwanda (died 2020), Malawian politician and economist •
Cornelius Nepos, Roman historian of Gaul •
Cornelius S. Palmer (1844–1932), American soldier, lawyer, and judge •
Cornelius Pot, Dutch football coach •
Cornelius Roosevelt (1794–1871), American businessman •
Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt (1915–1991), American veteran •
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), author of
The Longest Day and
A Bridge Too Far •
Cornelio Saavedra, first President of Argentina 1810 • Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., birth name of
Robert Byrd, senator and congressman from West Virginia •
Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders, South African boxer •
Cornelius Sherlock (died 1888), British architect •
Cornelius Staley (1808–1883), American politician from Maryland •
Cornelius Van Til, Dutch-American Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist •
Cornelius Vander Starr, American founder of AIG •
Cornelius Vanderbilt, American industrialist •
Cornelius Wiebe, Canadian physician and politician •
Cornelius Whitehouse (1796–1883), English engineer and inventor •
Pope Cornelius, pope from AD 251 to 253 •
Metropolitan Cornelius, several people •
St. Cornelius (disambiguation), several saints •
Cornelius Adam Igbudu (1914–1981), founder of the Anglican Adam Preaching Society ==Fictional characters==