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 (musician), guitarist for Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir
As a 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 (ship), five commercial ships
- HMS Cyrus, three ships of the British Royal Navy
- 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
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