List of Famous people named Cornelius

Cornelius Lott Shear (1865–1956) was an American mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1908 he created the American Phytopathological Society. He was the first to describe the grass Bromus arizonicus.

Cornelius Cooper "Corny" Johnson was an American athlete in the high jump. Born in Los Angeles in 1913, Johnson first competed in organized track and field events at Berendo Junior High School. He achieved greater athletic success as a student at Los Angeles High School, competing in the sprint and in the high jump. Before going to the Olympics as a junior, he won the CIF California State Meet in 1932. He had been second the year before. In 2016, the 1936 Olympic journey of the eighteen Black American athletes, including Johnson, was documented in the film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.

Cornelius Newton Bliss was an American merchant, politician and art collector, who served as Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President William McKinley and as Treasurer of the Republican National Convention in four successive campaigns.

Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel was a Dutch Bishop of Liège, Belgium, from 1829 until his death.

Cornelius O'Callaghan of Shanbally Castle, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary, was an Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tipperary from 1832 to 1835, and for Dungarvan from 1837 to 1841.

Cornelius Jansen was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.