Hormizd (sometimes spelled Hormuzd and Graecized Hormisdas or Ormisdas) is an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

name derived from the name of the god Ahura Mazda. It may refer to: Any of the several kings and members of the

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

dynasty of Persia: *

Hormizd I Hormizd-Ardashir, better known by his dynastic name of Hormizd I (also spelled Hormozd I or Ohrmazd I; pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣), was the third Sasanian King of Kings (''shahanshah'') of Iran, who ruled from May 270 to June 271. He was ...

(272–273), Sasanian king *

Hormizd II Hormizd II (also spelled Hormozd or Ohrmazd; pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire. He ruled for seven years and five months, from 303 to 309. He was a son and successor of Narseh (). During his reign, the Ki ...

(302–310), Sasanian king *

Hormizd III Hormizd III ( pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣; New Persian: ), was the seventeenth king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire, ruling briefly from 457 to 459. He was the son and successor of Yazdegerd II (). His reign was marked by the rebellion of his ...

(457–459), Sasanian king *

Hormizd IV Hormizd IV (also spelled Hormozd IV or Ohrmazd IV; pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 579 to 590. He was the son and successor of Khosrow I () and his mother was a Khazar princess. During his reign, Ho ...

(579–590), Sasanian king *

Hormizd V Farrukh Hormizd or Farrokh Hormizd ( fa, فرخ‌هرمز), also known as Hormizd V, was an Iranian prince, who was one of the leading figures in Sasanian Iran in the early 7th-century. He served as the military commander (''spahbed'') of norther ...

(593), Sasanian king *

Hormizd VI Hormizd VI ( pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was a Sasanian Empire, Sasanian prince who ruled from 630 to 632. The overthrow and execution of his grandfather Khosrow II () in 628 led to a Sasanian civil war of 628–632, civil war that saw many ...

(631–632), Sasanian king * Hormizd (son of Hormizd II) (), defected and fled to Constantinople * Hormizd of Sakastan, Sasanian prince *

Hormizd I Kushanshah Hormizd I Kushanshah was Kushanshah of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 275 to 300. His reign was marked by his rebellion against his brother and suzerain the Sasanian King of Kings Bahram II (). Hormizd I Kushanshah was notably the first Kus ...

(270–295), ruler of the east of the Sasanian empire *

Hormizd II Kushanshah Hormizd II Kushanshah (also spelled Hormozd or Ohrmazd), was Kushanshah of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 300 to 303. Like his predecessors, he was, in effect a governor of the Sasanian Empire for the eastern regions of Marw, Tukharistan and ...

(295–300), ruler of the east of the Sasanian empire Other people with the name Hormizd or Hormisdas: *

Pope Hormisdas Pope Hormisdas (450 – 6 August 523) was the bishop of Rome from 20 July 514 to his death. His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the Monophysites. His efforts to resolve ...

(c. 450 – 523), saint * Hormizd the Martyr (d. c. 420), saint *

Rabban Hormizd Rabban Mar Hormizd ( syc, ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ ) was a monk who lived in the seventh century in modern northern Iraq. ''Rabban'' is the Syriac term for ''monk''. "Rabban" is also the Aramaic word for "teacher". He founded the Rabban Hormizd Mo ...

, 7th century Assyrian saint *

Yohannan Hormizd Yohannan VIII Hormizd (often referred to by European missionaries as ''John Hormez'' or ''Hanna Hormizd'') (1760–1838) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chalde ...

(1760–1838), Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church *

Hormuzd Rassam Hormuzd Rassam ( ar, هرمز رسام; syr, ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 182616 September 1910), was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets tha ...

(1826–1910), Assyrian assyriologist *

Hormazd Narielwalla Hormazd Narielwalla (born 1979) is a British collage artist, and author, based in London. Education He obtained a PhD from the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts, London,. Style He has pioneered artwork that portrays abstrac ...

(born 1979), Indian-born collage artist * Hormasji Maneckji Seervai (1906–1996), Indian lawyer * Hormasji Kanga (1880–1945), Indian cricketer * Hormasji Vajifdar (1894–1961), Indian cricketer *

Hormusjee Naorojee Mody Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (12 October 1838 – 16 June 1911) was a successful Indian Parsi businessman in Hong Kong. He made Hong Kong his home for 50 years, during which he did much for the benefit of the colony and finally founded the Univer ...

(1838–1911), Indian businessman in Hong Kong *

Naval Hormusji Tata Naval Hormusji Tata (30 August 1904 – 5 May 1989) was an adopted son of Sir Ratanji Tata and a noted alumni of the Tata Group. He is the father of Ratan Tata, Jimmy Tata and Noel Tata. The Naval Tata Hockey Academy in Jamshedpur (joint ...

(1904–1989), Indian businessman * Noshir Hormasji Antia (1922–2007), Indian plastic surgeon * Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (1914–2008), Field Marshal of the Indian Army Other uses: *

Rabban Hormizd Monastery Rabban Hormizd Monastery ( syr , ܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܝܙܕ ܥܓ̰ܡܝܐ) is an important monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul. It was the ...

, an ancient monastery in Iraq *

Mar Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly Mar Hormizd Cathedral, locally known as the Eastern Church of Angamaly ( ml, അങ്കമാലി കിഴക്കേപ്പള്ളി, Angamali Kiḻakkeppaḷḷi) or the Cathedral Church ( ml, അരമനപള്ളി, Aramanappa ...

Boukoleon Palace The Palace of Boukoleon ( el, Βουκολέων) or Bucoleon was one of the Byzantine palaces in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey.) The palace is located on the shore of the Sea of Marmara, to the south of the Hippodrome and ea ...

in Constantinople, sometimes called the Hormisdas Palace after the son of Hormizd II

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