title: Cassian
text: # Cassian
  
  Cassian may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Cassian, Wisconsin
  
  ## People
  
  ### Historical
  
  * St. Cassian of Imola (4th-century–363), Christian martyr
  * St. Cassian of Autun (died 350), Christian bishop of Autun
  * St. John Cassian the ascetic (360–435), French Christian saint and author
  * St. Marcellus the Centurion, martyr of Tingis, sometimes called "Cassian"
  * Cassian Sakowicz (1578–1647), Orthodox activist and, later, a Catholic theologian, writer, and polemicist
  * Cassian of Tangier (3rd-century–298), Christian saint
  
  ### Modern
  
  * Cassian Elwes (born 1959), British film producer
  * Ed Cassian (1867–1918), former Major League Baseball player
  * George Cassian, (1932-1979) Canadian yacht designer
  * Nina Cassian (1924–2014), Romanian writer
  * Brigant Cassian (1889–1957), priest and education worker in Hong Kong
  
  ### In fiction
  
  * Cassian Andor, a character in the Star Wars franchise film Rogue One
  * Cassian, a character in Sarah J. Maas's series “A Court of Thorns and Roses”
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Cassian (stage), a geochronologic name in Italian stratigraphy
  * Sabinian school, known as the Cassians
  * A 1942 GRT tanker owned by Panama and named SS Cassian Sailor from 1956 to 1960
  