Chrysanthos ( el, Χρύσανθος), Latinized as Chrysanthus, is a Greek name meaning "golden flower". The feminine form of the name is
Chrysanthe (Χρυσάνθη), also written Chrysanthi, Chrysanthy and Chrysanthea.
Notable people bearing this name include:
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Father Chrysanthus
Father Chrysanthus O.F.M. Cap. (1 September 1905 – 4 May 1972), born Wilhelmus Egbertus Antonius Janssen, was a Dutch priest and biology teacher. He was known for his studies in arachnology. Initially he was concerned with the spiders of the N ...
(1905–1972), Dutch priest and arachnologist
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Saint Chrysanthus, 3rd-century Christian martyr
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Chrysanthus (vicarius)
Chrysanthus was the name of a vicarius of Roman Britain probably in the period 395–406. Little is known about his governorship, except that he probably served under the emperor Honorius.
He was the son of a bishop of Constantinople and had bee ...
, Roman governor of Britain at the turn of the 4th century and bishop
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Chrysanthos of Madytos Chrysanthos of Madytos ( el, Χρύσανθος ὁ ἐκ Μαδύτων; c. 1770 – 1846) was a Greek poet, chanter, Archimandrite, and Archbishop, born in Madytos. In preparation of the first printed books of Orthodox chant, he was responsible fo ...
(c. 1770 – c. 1840), Greek musicologist
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Chrysanthos Sisinis (died 1845), participated in the
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by ...
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Chrysanthos Sisinis (general)
Chrysanthos Sisinis ( el, Χρύσανθος Σισίνης) (born c. 1857 in Gastouni) was a Greek Army general.
He studied at the Hellenic Army Academy, graduating in 1881 as an Engineers Second Lieutenant. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War o ...
, Greek general
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Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens ( el, Αρχιεπίσκοπος Χρύσανθος; 1881 – 28 September 1949), born Charilaos Filippidis (), was the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece between 1938 and 1941.
He was born in 1881 in Gratini, T ...
(1881–1949), Greek orthodox bishop, archbishop of Greece in 1938–41
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Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou (1918–1995), better known as Bost, Greek political cartoonist and playwright
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Chrysanthos Theodoridis, (1934–2005),
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek ( pnt, Ποντιακόν λαλίαν, or ; el, Ποντιακή διάλεκτος, ; tr, Rumca) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, ...
singer and songwriter
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Kim Tae-hun Chrysanthus, (1978-)
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Chrysanthos Panayiotou, (1959 -), Greek American, Executive Director, Center for Laser and Fiber Optics Education, LASER-TEC
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Greek masculine given names