title: Merula
text: # Merula
  
  Merula may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 193 BC), Roman politician and general of the 2nd century BC
  * Gnaeus Cornelius Merula, envoy to Cyprus, Crete and Asia Minor in the 2nd century BC
  * Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 87 BC), Roman senator and priest of Jupiter
  * Georgius Merula, 15th-century Italian classical scholar
  * Paulus Merula, 16th-century Dutch librarian and scholar
  * Tarquinio Merula, Italian Baroque composer of the 17th century
  * SS Merula, a coastal tanker in service with Ape Azionaria Petroliere from 1949 to 1951
  
  ## Zoology
  
  * Turdus merula, the common blackbird
  * Percnodaimon merula, a butterfly from New Zealand
  * Dendrocincla merula, the white-chinned woodcreeper
  
  ## Geography
  
  * Merula (creek), a tributary of the Ligurian Sea
  