Hormizd (sometimes spelled Hormuzd and Graecized Hormisdas or Ormisdas) is an Iranian name derived from the name of the god

Ahura Mazda Ahura Mazda (; ae, , translit=Ahura Mazdā; ), also known as Oromasdes, Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hoormazd, Hormazd, Hormaz and Hurmuz, is the creator deity in Zoroastrianism. He is the first and most frequently invoked spirit in the ''Yasna''. ...

. It may refer to: Any of the several kings and members of the Sasanian dynasty of Persia: * Hormizd I (272–273), Sasanian king * Hormizd II (302–310), Sasanian king * Hormizd III (457–459), Sasanian king * Hormizd IV (479–480), Sasanian king *

Hormizd V Farrukh Hormizd or Farrokh Hormizd ( fa, فرخ‌هرمز), also known as Hormizd V, was an Iranian prince, who was one of the leading figures in Sasanian Iran in the early 7th-century. He served as the military commander (''spahbed'') of northern ...

(593), Sasanian king * Hormizd VI (631–632), Sasanian king *

Hormizd (son of Hormizd II) Hormizd (Middle Persian; in grc, Ὁρμίσδας ''Hormisdas'', ''Ormisdas''; fa, هرمز) was a Sassanid Persian prince, the third son of King Hormizd II and brother-in-law of King Shapur II. Imprisoned by him, he was freed by his wife in 32 ...

(), defected and fled to Constantinople *

Hormizd of Sakastan Hormizd of Sakastan was a Sasanian prince who was the leader of a revolt in Sakastan and its surrounding regions. He was the son of Shapur Mishanshah, a Sasanian prince who governed Maishan, and was the son of the Sassanian shah Shapur I. Hormizd' ...

, Sasanian prince * Hormizd I Kushanshah (270–295), ruler of the east of the Sasanian empire *

Hormizd II Kushanshah Hormizd II Kushanshah (also spelled Hormozd or Ohrmazd), was Kushanshah of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 300 to 303. Like his predecessors, he was, in effect a governor of the Sasanian Empire for the eastern regions of Marw, Tukharistan and Gan ...

(295–300), ruler of the east of the Sasanian empire Other people with the name Hormizd or Hormisdas: *

Hormizd the Martyr Hormizd, the Persian Martyr is a Catholic saint of the fifth century (c. 420). Theodoret, in his '' Historia Ecclesiastica'' presents the history of the life and the martyrdom of Hormizd, the Persian (c. 420). The 1583 version of the Roman Martyrolo ...

(d. c. 420), saint * Rabban Hormizd, 7th century Assyrian saint * Yohannan Hormizd (1760–1838), Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church * Hormuzd Rassam (1826–1910), Assyrian assyriologist * Hormazd Narielwalla (born 1979), Indian-born collage artist * Pope Hormisdas (450–523), saint * Naval Hormusji Tata (1904–1989), Indian businessman *

Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of ...

(1914–2008), Field Marshal of the Indian Army Other uses: * Rabban Hormizd Monastery, an ancient monastery in Iraq * Mar Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly * Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople, sometimes called the Hormisdas Palace after the son of Hormizd II

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