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
- Germain 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
- Vangelis Germanos, Greek song writer and singer
- Gyula Germanus (1884-1979) was a Hungarian writer and islamologist of jewish origin, member of the Hungarian Parliament and member of multiple Arabic academics of sciences, who made significant contributions to the arabic language science, language history and culture history
- Greek clerics
- Institutions
- Companies
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