List of Famous people named Pausanias

Pausanias was the Agiad King of Sparta; the son of Pleistoanax. He ruled Sparta from 445 BC to 427 BC and again from 409 BC to 395 BC. He was the leader of the faction in Sparta that opposed the imperialist policy conducted by Lysander.

Pausanias of Macedon was the son and successor of Aeropus II of Macedon in the Argead dynasty of Macedon. He was assassinated in 394 BCE, the year of his accession, by Amyntas III, who then succeeded him as King of Macedon.

Pausanias of Orestis was a member of Philip II of Macedon's personal bodyguard (somatophylakes). He assassinated Philip in 336 BC, possibly at the behest of Philip's wife Olympias, or even his son Alexander the Great. Pausanias was killed while fleeing the assassination.

Pausanias was an ancient Athenian of the deme Kerameis, and was the lover of the poet Agathon.