Cyrus

Cyrus (in modern Persian, کوروش – Kurosh – and in Greek, Κῦρος Kyros) is a common Persian given name. For etymology, see Cyrus (name).

Persian Monarchy

• Cyrus I of Anshan (ca. 650 BC), King of Persia
• Cyrus II of Persia (559–529 BC) – also known as Cyrus the Great – the grandson of Cyrus I, an Achaemenid ruler and the founder of the Great Persian Empire

(See also: Name of Cyrus, Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus in the Judeo-Christian tradition and Cyrus the Great in the Quran)

• Cyrus the Younger (died 401 BC), brother to the Persian King Artaxerxes

Other persons named Cyrus

Given name

• Saint Cyrus (see Cyrus and John), 4th century Coptic saint
• Cyrus of Alexandria, Melchite Patriarch and co-founder of Monothelism
• Cyrus of Panopolis, 5th-century Byzantine writer and official
• Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, American artist, illustrator, author, and adventurer
• Cyrus Townsend Brady, American journalist, historian and adventure writer
• Cyrus Broacha, MTV India VJ
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin, American sculptor
• Cyrus S. Eaton, American banker, investor, and philanthropist
• Cyrus West Field, American businessman who successfully laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable
• Cyrus Frisch, Dutch film director
• Cyrus Hamlin (general), Union general during American Civil War, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
• Cyrus McCormick, American inventor who developed the modern mechanical reaper
• Cyrus Patell, literary and cultural critic
• Cyrus Peirce, founder of first public normal school in United States
• Cyrus Poncha, national squash coach in India
• Cyrus Sahukar, MTV India VJ
• C. R. Smith (Cyrus Rowlett Smith), U.S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson
• Cyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter
• Don Callis, professional wrestler who competed as "Cyrus the Virus"

Surname

• Gordon Cyrus, Swedish performer and record producer
• An American family:
  • Ron Cyrus, Kentucky politician
  • Billy Ray Cyrus, American musician and actor
  • Trace Cyrus, American musician, lead guitarist of Metro Station
  • Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer
  • Noah Cyrus, American actress

Fictional characters

• Cyrus (Chrono Trigger), a character in the video game Chrono Trigger
• Cyrus, a gang leader in the 1979 film The Warriors
• Cyrus Bortel, a character from Kim Possible
• Cyrus Gold, the DC Comics character Solomon Grundy (comics)
• Cyrus Lupo, a detective character from Law & Order
• Cyrus Simpson, the brother of Abraham Simpson in The Simpsons
• Cyrus Tolliver, a character from the TV series Deadwood
• Sergeant Cyrus, a character in the videogame Dawn of War 2
• Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich.

Other

• Cyrus, Greek name of the Kura River in the South Caucasus
• Cyrus, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
• Cyrus IMAP server, a mail server meant to be run on a sealed system
• Cyrus, another moniker of Basic Channel's Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus
• The Cyrus South Seaman, British whaler captained by Richard Spratly

See also

• Koresh
• Syrus

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