Petronius (c. AD 27–66) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero, and author of the Satyricon.
Petronius may also refer to:
People
- Members of the Petronia gens, an ancient Roman plebeian family
- Gaius Petronius (c. 75 BC – after 20 BC), Prefect of Roman Aegyptus
- Petronius of Egypt, 4th-century Egyptian Christian monk
- Petronius Maximus, Western Roman emperor in 455
- Peter I of Trani (fl. 11th century), first Norman count of Trani
Other uses
- Petronius (horse), a racehorse
- Petronius (oil platform), in the Gulf of Mexico
- Petronius Paperonius, Donald Duck's ancestor, in comics
- Petronius the Arbiter, a cat in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door into Summer
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