Vassilios or Vassileios, also transliterated Vasileios, Vasilios, Vassilis or Vasilis ( el, Βασίλειος or Βασίλης), is a Greek given name, the origin of

Basil Basil (, ; ''Ocimum basilicum'' , also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints). It is a tender plant, and is used in cuisines worldwide. In Western cuisine, the generic term "basil" refers to the variety also ...

. In ancient/medieval/Byzantine context, it is also transliterated as Basileios. It is directly descended from the word "King", el, Βασιλιάς. It descends from the Greek language.

People

* Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-French writer * Vassilis Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer * Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor * Vasilis Avramidis, Greek footballer * Vasilis Barkas, Greek footballer * Vasilis Bolanos, ethnic Greek mayor of Himara, Albania * Vassilis Borbokis, Greek footballer * Vasilis Dimitriadis, Greek footballer *

Vasilis Fragkias Vassilis Fragkias (alternative spellings: Vasilis, Fragias; born 24 August 1961) is a Greek former basketball player and professional basketball coach. Playing career Fragkias played club basketball with the Greek club Zografou. Coaching caree ...

, Greek basketball coach * Vassilis Gagatsis, president of the Hellenic Football Federation *

Vasilis Georgiadis Vasilis Georgiadis ( el, Βασίλης Γεωργιάδης; 12 August 1921 – 30 April 2000) was a Greek film director and actor. His films ''The Red Lanterns'' (1963) and '' Blood on the Land'' (1966) were nominated for the Academy Award f ...

, Greek film director and actor * Vasilis Golias, Greek footballer * Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer * Vassilios Iliadis, Greek judoka * Vasilios Kalogeracos, Australian footballer of Greek descent * Vasili Kanidiadis, Greek-Australian television personality *

Vassilis Karapialis Vassilis Karapialis ( el, Βασίλης Καραπιάλης; born 13 June 1965) is a Greek retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for Larissa, Olympiacos Piraeus and the Greece national football team. He is considered as one ...

, Greek footballer *

Vasilis Karras Vasilis Karras ( el, Βασίλης Καρράς; born Vasilis Kesoglidis on 12 November 1953) is a Greek folk singer. Biography Karras was born in Kokkinohori, near Kavala, Greece. At the age of 10, his family moved to Thessaloniki. Also arou ...

, Greek folk singer * Vasilis Katsaros, Greek footballer * Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player * Vasilis Konstantinou, Greek footballer *

Vassilios Kotronias Vasilios Kotronias ( el, Βασίλειος Κοτρωνιάς; first name sometimes spelled ''Vassilios''; born 25 August 1964) is a Greek chess player and writer. He is a ten-time Greek champion (1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2006, ...

, Greek chess grandmaster and chess author * Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer * Vassilis Krommidas, Greek triathlete * Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer *

Vassilis Leventis Vasileios "Vasilis" Leventis ( el, Βασίλειος "Βασίλης" Λεβέντης, ; born 2 November 1951) is a Greek politician, leader of the Greek centrist party, Union of Centrists () since 1992 and former Member of Parliament, in offi ...

, Greek politician and TV persona *

Vasilis Lipiridis Vassilis Lipiridis (alternate spellings: Vasilis, Lypiridis) ( el, Βασίλης Λυπηρίδης; born January 1, 1967, in Edessa, Greece) is a retired Greek professional basketball player. At 2.02 m (6 ft 7 in) tall, he played at the ...

, Greek basketball player *

Vassilis Logothetidis Vasilis Logothetidis (Greek language, Greek: Βασίλης Λογοθετίδης; 1897 – 20 February 1960) was a Greece, Greek comedian. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. Logothetidis was born as Vasilis Tavla ...

, Greek actor *

Vassilis Lymberis Vassilis Lymberis ( el, Βασίλης Λυμπέρης; 1945 – 25 August 1972) was a Greek mass murderer who killed his wife, his two children, and his mother-in-law, by burning down his family home in January 1972. Lymberis was executed for th ...

, Greek mass murderer *

Vasilios Magginas Vasilios Magginas (; 22 October 1949 – 6 March 2015) was a Greek politician, member of the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy for the Aetolia-Acarnania constituency and government minister. He was from Astakos, Aetolia-Acarnania, and was e ...

, Greek politician *

Vasilis Michaelides Vasilis Michaelides ( el, Βασίλης Μιχαηλίδης, before 1853–18 December 1917) is considered by many and often referred to as the national poet of Cyprus. Michaelides was born in Lefkoniko, a village in the Famagusta District ...

, Cypriot poet *

Vassilis Mitilinaios Vassilis Mytilinaios ( el, Βασίλης Μυτιληναίος; born 7 March 1982, in Genk, Belgium) is a Greek football goalkeeper. He played for Akratitos, Apollon Smyrnis, Ionikos FC, Alki Larnaca, ENTHOI Lakatamia and since 2006 has pla ...

, Greek footballer * Vasilis N. Triantafillidis, birth name of Greek comedian Harry Klynn * Vassilis Paleokostas, Greek fugitive criminal * Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer * Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist *

Vassilis Photopoulos Vassilis Photopoulos ( el, Βασίλης Φωτόπουλος) (1934, Kalamata – 14 January 2007, Athens, Greece) was an influential Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer. He was an Academy Award winner for the film ''Zorb ...

, Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer *

Vasilis Politis Vasilis Politis (born May 20, 1963) is a Greek philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He is known for his expertise on Plato and Aristotle. Politis is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The I ...

(born 1963), Greek philosopher * Vassilis Rapotikas, ethnic Aromanian separatist and revolutionary from Greece *

Vassilis Saleas Vasilis Saleas ( el, Βασίλης Σαλέας) is a clarinetist from Greece.

, Greek musician * Vassilis Simtsak, Greek basketball player * Vassilios Skouris, 10th President of the European Court of Justice * Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player * Vassilis Steriadis, Greek poet and critic *

Vassilis Stravopodis ''The first version of this article has been based in the text of :el:Βασίλης Στραβοπόδης of the Greek Wikipedia published under GFDL.'' Vassilis Stravopodis ( el, Βασίλης Στραβοπόδης; born 1948), popularly n ...

, Greek footballer * Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Greek musician and composer * Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer * Vassilios Tsiartas, Greek footballer *

Vassilis Tsitsanis Vassilis Tsitsanis ( el, Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης 18 January 1915 – 18 January 1984) was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders o ...

, Greek songwriter and musician *

Vassilis Vassili Vassilis Vassili (Greek: Βασίλης Βασίλη; born 1964) is a Greek contemporary visual artist working primarily in sculpture. In Greek Cyprus he worked with several other sculptors to create public art for the Cypriot community, most ...

, Greek sculptor * Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and diplomat * Vasilios Vatatzes, Greek scholar, merchant, traveler, pioneer explorer and diplomat *

Vasilis Xanthopoulos Vassilis Xanthopoulos (alternate spellings: Vasilios, Vasilis, Vasileios; Greek: Βασίλης Ξανθόπουλος; born 29 April 1984) is a Greek professional basketball player for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball ...

, Greek basketball player * Vasilios Xydas, Greek pole vaulter

Places

* Agios Vasileios, a Greek village in Achaea * Agios Vasileios, a Greek village in Corinthia * St. Vasilios Church (Massachusetts)

People

Places

See also