Cyril

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Cyril or Cyryl Given Name
Gender	male
Origin	Greek
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Cyril or Cyryl

The name Cyrillus or Cyril or Cyryl is derived from Greek Κύριλλος (Kyrillos - lordly, masterful), related to kyrios - lord, master. It is the name of several historic figures:

• Saint Cyril of Alexandria, 4th century Coptic Pope & theologian
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century Patriarch & theologian
• Cyrillus, 5th century Greek jurist
• Saint Cyril, 9th century Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, theologian, linguist and apostle to the Slavs, believed to have co-invented the Glagolitic alphabet, the first Slavic alphabet, and translated the Bible into a Slavic language referred to as Old Church Slavonic.
• Cyril of Turaw, 12th century Belarusian Orthodox Christian bishop and theologian
• Sir Cyril Burt, 20th century psychologist
• Elder Cyril Pavlov (b. 1919) Russian Orthodox Christian monk, mystic and wonder-worker
• Another name of Nikita the Furrier
• Cyril Takayama, a Japanese American illusionist
• Cyril Sneer, the fictional villain aardvark of the 1980s cartoon series The Racoons.
• St. Cyril's Monastery, a monastery in Kiev, Ukraine.

[edit] See also

• Cyrillus (lunar crater)
• Kyril
• Kyrill
• S.M. Cyril (Educational Innovator - India)