Alexius

Alexius

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

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) and its variants such as Alessia (the masculine form of which is Alessio) in Italian.

Rulers

• Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
• Alexios II Komnenos (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
• Alexios III, Byzantine emperor
• Alexios IV, Byzantine emperor
• Alexios V, Byzantine emperor
• Alexios I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexios III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
• Alexios 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 I of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1945–1970)
• Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1990–2008)
• 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 Aspietes, Byzantine governor
• Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
• Alexios Halebian, American tennis player
• 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