Cyril

Cyril or Cyryl
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Greek

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, 5th century Patriarch & theologian
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century Patriarch & theologian
Cyrillus, 5th century Greek jurist
The former of the Saints Cyril and Methodius, a 9th century Byzantine Bulgarian 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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