Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name

Hyacinthe Hyacinthe is a given name. It is generally a male name. The form Hyacinth may be masculine or feminine. People with this name * Hyacinthe (actor) (1814–1887), French actor and operetta singer * Hyacinthe Besson (1816–1861), French painter a ...

. The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple.Thomas W. Sheehan, . Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001. Page 130. English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia. European equivalents include Hyacinthe (French), Hyazinth (German),

Jacek Jacek is a Polish given name of Greek origin related Hyacinth, through the archaic form of ''Jacenty''. Its closely related equivalents are: Jacinto (Spanish and Portuguese), Giacinto (Italian), Jácint ( Hungarian) and Jacint ( Catalan, shortene ...

(Polish, male), Iakinf (Иакинф; Russian). The Spanish name Jacinta is closely related, referring to the hyacinth flower. Jacinda (Greek and Spanish) may refer to either.Sheehan, . Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001. "Jacinta: 'The Hyacinth Flower' (Spanish) or 'The Wearer of Purple' (Portuguese) or 'The Beautiful One' (Spanish). Jacinda: (Greek, Spanish) see Hyacinth, Jacinta." Hyacinth may also refer to:

Men with the given name Hyacinth

* Hyacinth and Protus (martyred 257–9), Christian saints * Hyacinth Bobone (c.1106–1198), after 1191

Pope Celestine III Pope Celestine III ( la, Caelestinus III; c. 1106 – 8 January 1198), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 March or 10 April 1191 to his death in 1198. He had a tense relationship with several monarchs, ...

Hyacinth (Bichurin) Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (Никита Яковлевич Бичурин) (29 August 1777 – 11 May 1853, St. Petersburg), better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth (sometimes rendered as Joacinth), or Iakinf (Иакин� ...

(1777–1853), one of the founding fathers of Sinology * Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo (born 1955), vicar and bishop *

Hyacinth Gabriel Connon Hyacinth Gabriel Connon, F.S.C. (July 11, 1911 – August 24, 1978), was a Lasallian Brother and President of De La Salle University in Manila from 1950 to 1959 and 1966 to 1978, the second president to have served two terms in the history ...

(1911–1978), Lasallian Brother and a president of De La Salle University *

Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz (also known as Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz) (30 July 1893 – 25 April 1968) was a German officer of aristocratic descent in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the ...

(1893–1968), German Army officer *

Hyacinth Morgan Hyacinth or Hyacinthus may refer to: Nature Plants * Hyacinth (plant), genus ''Hyacinthus'' ** '' Hyacinthus orientalis'', common hyacinth * Grape hyacinth, ''Muscari'', a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia * Hyacinth bean, ''Lab ...

(1885–1956), Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom *

Hyacinth of Caesarea Hyacinth (, ''Hyakinthos''; died 108) was a young Christian living at the start of the second century, who is honored as a martyr and a saint by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Hyacinth is sometimes called by his L ...

(died 108), early Christian martyr saint *

Hyacinth Tungutalum Hyacinth Gabriel Tungutalum (14 August 1946 – 7 April 2009) was an Australian politician and the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to a state or territory parliament. A traditional owner on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, Tu ...

(1946–2009), Australian politician * Saint Hyacinth (1185–1257), Polish priest, canonized 1594 *

Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin PC, JP, DL, QC (1 July 1834 – 6 February 1904), was an Irish lawyer. Legal career MacDermot served as Solicitor-General for Ireland in the Liberal government of 1886, and as Attorney-Gen ...

(1834–1904), Irish lawyer

Mythology

Hyacinth (mythology) Hyacinth or Hyacinthus (Ancient Greek: , , ) is a gentle and clever divine hero and a lover of Apollo from Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era. A temenos or sanctuary grew up around what was a ...

, divine hero in Greek mythology

Fiction

* Hyacinth Robinson, the main character of Henry James' 1886 novel '' The Princess Casamassima''

Women with the given name Hyacinth

Hyacinth Flemmings Hyacinth Flemmings (possibly Hyacinth Fleming) is a former cricketer who played one match during the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup for the Jamaica women's national cricket team The Jamaica women's cricket team is the women's representative cr ...

, former cricketer *

Hyacinth Mariscotti Hyacintha Mariscotti, or Hyacintha of Mariscotti ( it, Giacinta Marescotti) was an Italian nun of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. She was born in 1585 of a noble family at Vignanello, in the Province of Viterbo, and died 30 January 1640 ...

(also written Hyacintha or Giacinta), Italian saint *

Hyacinth Walters Hyacinth Walters (born 15 July 1926) is a Jamaican former sprinter who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV O ...

(born 1926), Jamaican former sprinter * Hyacinth Wijeratne (1946-2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala actress

Fiction

* Hyacinth Bucket, main character in the TV sitcom ''Keeping Up Appearances'' * Hyacinth Hippo, a character from the Disney movie '' Fantasia (1940 film)'' * Hyacinth Bridgerton, character in the Netflix series Bridgerton

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Men with the given name Hyacinth

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Women with the given name Hyacinth

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People with the surname Hyacinth

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