title: Galvanus
text: # Galvanus
  
  Galvanus may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Galvanus de Bettino (c. 1335–c. 1394), also called Galvanus de Bononia, Galvanus Becchini, Italian religious scholar
  * Galvanus de Levanto (fl. 14th century), also called Galvanus Januensis, Galvanus of Genoa, and Galvano de Gines), Italian theologian, physician to Pope Benedict XII
  * Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Italian physician and physicist
  
  ## Other
  
  * Galvanus, an alternate name for Gawain
  * Lamp of Galvanus, sometimes called lamp of Galvanus Martianus, an artifact mentioned in the 1658 work Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial by Thomas Browne
  * Silentium Galvanus, a bogus homeopathic medicine named in an internet meme; see Galvão Bueno#Cala a boca Galvão (Internet meme)
  