A character in Victor Hugo's novel 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' bears this name.
-- Anonymous User 9/21/2006
The French form of this name, Phœbus, as used in both the Victor Hugo novel and the musical of the same name, Notre Dame de Paris, the name is pronounced like fay-BU, with the silent ending consonant. In English, I have heard this name pronounced FEE-bus, or more rarely FOH-bus.