Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (Description of Greece) of the 2nd century AD.

Pausanias (general), Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC.

Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC.

Pausanias of Sparta, King of Sparta from 409 BC to 395 BC.

Pausanias (Athenian), lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's Symposium.