The name
Ptolemy or
Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek
Ptolemaios, which seems to mean warlike or son of war. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the most famous of whom are the Greek-Egyptian astronomer
Claudius Ptolemaeus, and the
Macedonian founder and ruler of the
Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt,
Ptolemy I Soter. The following sections summarise the history of the name, some of the people named Ptolemy, and some of the other uses of this name.