Chrysanthos (), Latinized as Chrysanthus, is a Greek name meaning "golden flower". The feminine form of the name is
Chrysanthe (Χρυσάνθη), also written Chrysanthi, Chrysanthy and Chrysanthea.
Notable people bearing this name include:
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Saint Chrysanthus, 3rd-century Christian martyr
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Chrysanthus (vicarius), Roman governor of Britain at the turn of the 4th century and bishop
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Chrysanthus of Jerusalem (1655/1660–1731), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
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Chrysanthus of Constantinople (1768–1834),
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople () is the List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople, archbishop of Constantinople and (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that comprise the Eastern Orthodox ...
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Chrysanthos of Madytos
Chrysanthos of Madytos (; 1846) was a Greek poet, chanter, Archimandrite, and Archbishop, born in Madytos. In preparation of the first printed books of Orthodox chant, he was responsible for a reform of the Byzantine notation within the New Music ...
( – ), Greek musicologist
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Chrysanthos Sisinis (died 1845), participated in the
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...
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Chrysanthos Sisinis (general), Greek general
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Chrysanthus of Athens (1881–1949), Archbishop of Greece
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Father Chrysanthus (1905–1972), Dutch priest and arachnologist
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Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou (1918–1995), better known as Bost, Greek political cartoonist and playwright
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Chrysanthos Theodoridis, (1934–2005),
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek (, ; or ''Romeika'') is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region. An endangered Greek language variety ...
singer and songwriter
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Greek masculine given names
Masculine given names