title: Montanus (disambiguation)
text: # Montanus (disambiguation)
  
  Montanus was the second-century founder of Montanism.
  
  Montanus (Latin, 'mountain') may also refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus (1st century AD), Roman senator
  * Alpinius Montanus (1st century AD), of the Treviri, a tribe of the Belgae, commander of a Roman cohort
  * Arnoldus Montanus (c.1625–1683), Dutch teacher and author
  * Benedictus Arias Montanus or Benito Arias Montano (1527–1598), Spanish orientalist
  * Jan Simonides Montanus (c.1535-1587), Czech composer
  * Johannes Baptista Montanus (1498–1551), Italian physician and medical writer
  * Johannes Scultetus Montanus (1531-1604), Silesian Paracelsist
  * Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus, pseudonym of Casiodoro de Reina (c.1520–1594), Spanish Lutheran theologian
  * Saint Montanus, one of the Martyrs of Carthage under Valerian.
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Erasmus Montanus (1722), play by Ludvig Holberg and Latinised name of its lead character Rasmus Berg
  