Germanus is the Latin term referring to the Germanic peoples. A probably related meaning for the word in Latin is "blood relation", cognate to germen "seed" (whence Spanish hermano "brother").
- People named Germanus (Latin) or Germanos (Greek) include
- Trebius Germanus, governor of Roman Britain around 126
- Germanus (Cermanus), Spanish martyr-saint (see Servandus and Cermanus)
- Germanus of Auxerre (378-448), bishop of Auxerre who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre named for the same saint
- Germanus of Paris (496-576), also Saint Germain of Paris
- Germanus Justinus (died 551), general of the Byzantine Empire
- Germanus of Granfelden (612-675), Saint
- Nicolaus Germanus, 15th century cartographer
- Henricus Martellus Germanus, 15th century cartographer
- Moses Germanus (died 1701) or Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
- Greek clerics
- Saint Germanus I (died ~733), 39th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus II (died 1240), 95th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus III (died 1267), 101st Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus IV (died 1853), 213th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanus V (died 1918), 225th Patriarch of Constantinople
- Germanos of Patras (1771-1826), metropolitan bishop of Patras and participant in the Greek War of Independence
- Institutions
- Sanctus Germanus, a Titular See in the Roman Catholic Church
- Companies
- Germanos Group and its subsidiary Germanos Chain of Stores.
See also
- German
- Germania
- Germanicus
- Germain
- Germaine
