Cyril

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Cyril
Gender	Male
Origin	Greek
Related names	Cyryl, Cyrillus
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Cyril"

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Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kyrillos) meaning "lordly, masterful". It may refer to:

• Saint Cyril of Alexandria, 5th century patriarch and theologian
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century patriarch and theologian
• Cyrillus, 5th century Greek jurist
• The former of the Saints Cyril and Methodius, a 9th century Byzantine 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 Smith, British Liberal politician
• Cyril Takayama, Japanese American illusionist
• Cyril Sneer, the fictional villain aardvark of the 1980s cartoon series The Racoons
• S.M. Cyril, educational innovator in India
• Cyril De Zoysa, Sri Lankan businessman and Buddhist revivalist

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• Cyrillus (crater) on the moon
• Kyril
• Kyrill
• St. Cyril's Monastery, a monastery in Kiev, Ukraine

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