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Cyrus (disambiguation)

Cyrus is a masculine given name.

Cyrus may also refer to:

Films

  • Cyrus (2010 film)
  • Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer or just Cyrus, 2010 thriller horror film

People with the name

As a mononym

  • Cyrus I of Anshan, i.e. Cyrus I of Persia, King of Anshan in Persia from c. 600 to 580 BC or, according to others, from c. 652 to 600 BC
  • Cyrus the Great, i.e. Cyrus II of Persia (c. 600–530 BC), the founder of the Achaemenid Empire
  • Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II of Persia and Parysatis, Persian prince and general
  • Cyrus and John, Christian saints, venerated as martyrs, particularly by the Coptic Church
  • Cyrus of Alexandria (died 642), Melchite patriarch of the Egyptian see of Alexandria in the 7th century, one of the authors of Monothelism, and the last Byzantine prefect of Egypt
  • Cyrus of Panopolis, full name Flavius Taurus Seleucus Cyrus (floruit 426–441), a senior East Roman official, epic poet, philosopher and a lover of Greek arts
  • Cyrus (metal musician), guitarist for Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir

As a surname

  • Cyrus (surname)

As a pseudonym

  • Steven Slocum, professional wrestler who competed as "Cyrus"
  • Cyrus, another moniker of Basic Channel's Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus
  • Don Callis, professional wrestler who competed as "Cyrus the Virus"
  • Cyrus Smith (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations), one of the protagonists of Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island

Places

  • Cyrus, Greek name of the Kura River in the South Caucasus
  • Cyrus, Minnesota, United States, a small city
  • Cyrus, Missouri, United States
  • Cyrus, West Virginia, United States
  • St Cyrus or Saint Cyrus (Scots: Saunt Ceerus), formerly Ecclesgreig, a village in the far south of Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Other uses

  • Cyrus (album), a 2015 Cyrus Villanueva album
  • Cyrus IMAP server, a mail server meant to be run on a sealed system
  • Cyrus SASL, a free and portable library for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer
  • Cyrus (1800 whaler), a British whaling ship
  • Cyrus Cylinder, or Cyrus Charter, an ancient clay cylinder with an inscription about Cyrus the Great
  • Cyrus–Beck algorithm, generalized line clipping algorithm

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Cyrus
  • All pages with titles containing Cyrus
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