Alexius

Alexius
Gender	male
Language(s)	Greek
Other names
See also	Alexia (female) Alexey Alexander

Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (Greek: Αλέξιος, polytonic Ἀλέξιος, "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the later Byzantine Empire. Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa/Oleksiy deriving from this form. The female form is Alexia (Greek: Αλεξία).

It may refer to:

Rulers

• Alexius I Comnenus (1048-1118), Byzantine emperor
• Alexius II Comnenus (1167-1183), Byzantine emperor
• Alexius III, Byzantine emperor
• Alexius IV, Byzantine emperor
• Alexius V, Byzantine emperor
• Alexius I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexius II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexius III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexius IV of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexius Mikhailovich (1629-1676), Tsar of Russia
• Alexius Petrovich (1690-1718), Russian tsarevich

Religious figures

• Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow, (1354-1378)
• Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople (1025-1043)
• Alexius (c. 1425-1488), Russian archpriest who converted to Judaism
• Patriarch Alexius II (1990-2008), late former Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
• Alexius of Nicaea, metropolitan bishop
• Saint Alexius of Rome, fifth-century eastern saint
• Alexius, a monk and saint of Kiev - see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev

Other people

• Alexios Apokaukos, Byzantine statesman
• Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
• Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
• Alexios Mosele (Caesar), Byzantine heir-apparent
• Alexios Palaiologos (despot), Byzantine heir-apparent
• Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general
• Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
• Alexios Strategopoulos, Byzantine general
• Alexios Xiphias, Byzantine Catepan of Italy