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Philadelphus is the scientific name of mock-oranges, a genus of shrubs.

Philadelphus is the Latinized form of the ancient Greek Philadelphos (Φιλάδελφος, meaning "brother-loving" or "sibling-loving"), it may also refer to:

People:

• Antiochus XI Ephiphanes Philadelphus (d. 92 BC), king of the Seleucid Empire 95-92 BC
• Attalus II Philadelphus (220–138 BC), king of Pergamon 160- 138 BC
• Iotape Philadelphus (before 17- c. 52 AD), princess and later queen of Commagene
• Laodice VII Thea Philadelphus (after 122- after 86 BC), princess of the Seleucid Empire and later queen of Commagene
• Mithridates IV Philopator Philadelphus (before 179- c.150 BC), king of Pontus c.155 –c.150 BC
• Philip I Philadelphus, king of the Seleucid Empire 95 BC-84/83 BC
• Ptolemy Philadelphus (son of Cleopatra) (36-29 BC), prince of Ptolemaic Egypt 36 BC-30 BC, son of Mark Antony
• Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 BC), king of Ptolemaic Egypt 283 BC-246 BC
  • Arsinoe II, given the epithet "Philadelphoi" (plural form) after marrying her brother Ptolemy II Philadelphus
• Ptolemy XII Auletes (Philopator Philadelphos), Ptolemaic king
• Philadelphus of Byzantium, bishop of Byzantium 211-217 AD
• Deiotarus Philadelphus (died c.6 AD), last king of Paphlagonia before 31 BC-c.6AD
• Philadelphos/Philadelphus, Christian martyrs commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar on February 8, May 10 and September 2
• Philadelphus Philadelphia, stage name of Jacob Philadelphia

Other uses:

• Philadelphus Jeyes, the chain of pharmacies operated by the inventors of Jeyes Fluid
• Philadelphus, North Carolina, a Registered Historic Place in Robeson County, North Carolina

See also

• Philadelphia (disambiguation)
• Phyladelphus, a genus of the fly family, Chloropidae
• Philometor (disambiguation), "mother-loving"
• Philopator (disambiguation), "father-loving"
• Eupator (disambiguation), "of noble father"

• Disambiguation pages
• Greek epithets