Linus
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Linus is a common name for people or things.
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People
Several people bear the first or middle name Linus:
- Linus Anton Spiegler
- Linus Beerli
- Linus B. Comins, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts in 1857-59
- Linus Denker
- Linus Fontaine
- Linus Geisler
- Linus Gerdemann, a German professional road bicycle racer
- Linus Gödeke
- Linus Hauser
- Linus Kiess
- Linus Kramer
- Linus Meyer
- Linus Pauling, chemist
- Linus Roache, actor
- Linus Starmann
- Linus Sweers
- Linus Torvalds, programmer, creator of the Linux kernel
- Linus Upson
- Linus Waltari
- Linus Willmann
- Linus Wittich
- Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer
- Linus (mythology), any of three sons of Apollo; see .
- Linus van Pelt, a character in the comic strip Peanuts
- Pope Linus, the second Pope of the Catholic Church.
- Linus was a figure mentioned at Paul of Tarsus's Second Epistle to Timothy: 'Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.' (2Tim.4:21, KJV) This may or may not be the same person as Pope Linus.
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Other
- Linus (magazine), Italian magazine published from 1965 named for the "Peanuts" character
- (22) Kalliope I Linus, an asteroid moon that orbits 22 Kalliope, named for the son of Apollo
- Project Linus
- Linus's law, named for Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". More formally: "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone."
- (Like) Linus was Deftones's first demo tape.
- "Linus and Lucy" is a jazz piano piece written by Vince Guaraldi and made popular in the Charlie Brown television specials.
- Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University
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