Cornelius Boza-Edwards (born Cornelius Bbosa) is a former professional boxer who is the former WBC Super Featherweight champion of the world. Born in Kampala, Uganda, he fought in both the super-featherweight and lightweight divisions. He emigrated from Uganda to England, where he lived for a long period. He now lives in the United States.
Cornelius "Corny" Johnson (1913 – 1946) 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.
In Luc Besson's 1997 Sci-Fi classic "The Fifth Element", English actor Ian Holm portrays a priest named Vito Cornelius.A joke in the film is how Leeloo, a major character in the film, pronounces Cornelius as cor-nee-lee-oos.
Cornelius is the name of the title character's half-dwarf professor in CS Lewis' "Prince Caspian." [Spoiler warning] It is also the name of adult Lewis (the orphan, not the afore mentioned author) in the movie "Meet the Robinsons."
In the book series Demonata there's a character named Cornelius but when he was a little kid the closest he could come to pronouncing it was kernel so they stuck with it and that's what he's called. He says he doesn't like the name Cornelius and insists on being called kernel.