Phineas
Phineas is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Phineas, an Anglicized name for the priest Phinehas in the Hebrew Bible
- Phineas Banning, American businessman and entrepreneur
- P. T. Barnum, American showman and businessman
- Phineas Bowles, British Army major-general
- Phineas Bowles, British Army lieutenant-general and Member of Parliament; son of the above
- Phineas F. Bresee, American founder of the Church of the Nazarene
- Phineas Bruce, American politician
- Phineas Clanton, American Old West cattle rustler and brother of outlaws Billy and Ike Clanton
- Phineas Davis, American clockmaker and inventor who designed and built the first practical American coal-burning locomotive
- Phineas Fletcher, Scottish-English poet
- Phineas Gage, American railroad construction foreman whose personality was changed by an accident that destroyed part of his brain
- Phineas Hitchcock, American politician
- Phineas Hodson, Anglican clergyman and Chancellor of York from 1611 to 1646
- Phineas Jones, American politician
- Phineas Jenks, American doctor and politician
- Phineas C. Lounsbury, American politician and 53rd Governor of Connecticut
- Phineas W. Leland, American physician, journalist and politician
- Phineas Lovett, farmer, merchant, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia
- Phineas Lyman, colonial American soldier
- Phineas Newborn, Jr., American jazz pianist
- Phineas Paist, American architect
- Phineas Pett, English shipwright
- Phineas Quimby, American religious teacher, philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, inventor and writer
- Phineas Riall, British general and Governor of Grenada
- Phineas Ryrie, Scottish tea merchant in Hong Kong
- Phineas J. Stone, American politician
- Phineas L. Tracy, American politician
- Phineas White, American lawyer and politician
- Phineas Young, Mormon pioneer and missionary, older brother of Brigham Young
Fictional characters
- Phineas Nigellus Black, from the Harry Potter series of novels
- Phineas Bogg, a character in Voyagers!
- Phineas Finn, in Anthony Trollope's novels Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux
- Phineas Flynn, in Phineas and Ferb
- Phineas T. Freakears, in Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
- Phineas Horton, a Marvel Comics character
- Phineas Sharp, in Darkwing Duck
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- Phineas, multiple characters in The Haunted Mansion
- Phineas "Finny", a tragic character in the 1959 novel A Separate Peace
- Phineas Welles, a mad scientist in action role-playing game The Outer Worlds
