title: Scipio
text: # Scipio
  
  Scipio may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Ancient Rome
  
  * Scipio Aemilianus, Roman general who destroyed Carthage in 146 BC
  * Scipio Africanus, Roman general who defeated the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in 202 BC
  * Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, brother of Africanus, Roman general who defeated the Seleucid king Antiochus III in 190 BC
  * Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, Roman general who was defeated in the Battle of the Lipari Islands in 260 BC
  * Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, Roman politician, opponent of Julius Caesar
  * Cornelius Scipio (disambiguation)
  
  ### Given names
  
  * Scipio Africanus Jones (1863–1943), African-American educator
  * Scipio Africanus (slave) (c. 1702 – 1720), African slave in England known for his epitaph
  * Scipio Colombo (1910–2002), Italian opera singer
  * Scipio Moorhead (active c. 1773), enslaved African-American artist
  * Scipio Slataper (1888–1915), writer from Austro-Hungarian Trieste
  * Scipio Spinks (born 1947), American baseball player
  * Scipion Abeille (died 1697), French surgeon
  * Scipione Ammirato (1531–1601), Italian historian
  * Scipione Barbò Soncino (active by 1570s), Italian jurist
  * Scipione Borghese (1577–1633), Italian cardinal
  * Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona (1871–1927), Italian prince
  * Scipione Breislak (1748–1826), Italian geologist
  * Scipione del Ferro (1465–1526), Italian mathematician
  * Scipione de' Ricci (1741–1810), Italian bishop
  * Scipione Gentili (1563–1616), German law professor
  * Scipione (Gino Bonichi) (1904–1933), Italian painter
  * Scipione Pulzone (1544–1598), Italian painter
  * Scipione Rebiba (1504–1577), Italian cardinal
  * Scipione Tecchi (1854–1915), Italian cardinal
  * Elmer Scipio Dundy (1830–1896), Nebraska judge
  * Andrew Scipione (born 1958), Australian police commissioner
  * Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei (1675–1755), Italian writer
  
  ### Pseudonym
  
  * Scipio, pseudonym used by Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 – 1804), American lawyer and statesman
  
  ## Place names
  
  ### United States
  
  **Indiana**
  
  * Scipio, Indiana and Ohio (Franklin County, Indiana, and Butler County, Ohio)
  * Scipio, Indiana (Jennings County)
  * Scipio Township, Allen County, Indiana
  * Scipio Township, LaPorte County, Indiana
  
  **Kansas**
  
  * Scipio, Kansas
  
  **Michigan**
  
  * Scipio Township, Michigan
  
  **New York**
  
  * Scipio, New York (Cayuga County)
  
  **Ohio**
  
  * Scipio Township, Meigs County, Ohio
  * Scipio Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  * Scipio, Ohio, in Butler County
  
  **Oklahoma**
  
  * Scipio, Oklahoma
  
  **Utah**
  
  * Scipio, Utah (Millard County)
  
  ### Italy
  
  * Tomb of the Scipios
  
  ## Creative works
  
  * Dream of Scipio (Latin: Somnium Scipionis), a story by Cicero, c. 51 BC
  * The Dream of Scipio (novel), a 2002 novel by Iain Pears
  * Il sogno di Scipione, a dramatic serenade by Mozart, premiered in 1772
     * Scipio's Dream, a 1992 opera by Judith Weir
  * Scipione, a 1726 opera by Handel
  * Scipione affricano, an opera by Francesco Cavalli, premiered in 1664
  * Hannibal and Scipio, a play by Thomas Nabbes, first performed in 1635
  * "Scipio", a song by Sky from the 1980 album Sky 2
  * Scipio, a character in Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord
  
  ## Ships
  
  * HMS Scipio, name of several British warships
  * HMS Scipion, name of several British warships
  * French ship Scipion, name of several French warships
  
  ## Other
  
  * Scipionyx, dinosaur
  * Scipio, character from the 2000 novel The Thief Lord
  * Scipio, a fictional planet in the sixth season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  * Scipio, character from the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
  