The male name Kiril (or Кирил or Кирилл) is a common first name in the Orthodox Slavic world, in particular in

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. It is also well known in Greece but in different forms like Kyriakos. (Note that in modern Russian the spelling Кирил is considered to be a mistake, the correct spelling is Кирилл.) Kiril has several variant forms:

Cyril Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (''Kýrillos''), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek κυριος (''kýrios'') 'lord'. There are various varian ...

, Cyrill, Kirill, Kirillos, Kiryl (

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Kyril The given name Kyril or Kyrill is male name, deriving from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kýrillos) which in turn derives from Greek κύριος (kýrios) "lord". There are many variant forms of the name: Cyril, Cyrill, Cy, Kiril, Kirill, Kir ...

, Cyryl (

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), Kyrill, Kyrylo (

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) and a diminutive Kiro (common in the Balkan Sprachbund).

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Cyril of Jerusalem ( el, Κύριλλος Α΄ Ἱεροσολύμων, ''Kýrillos A Ierosolýmon''; la, Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus; 313 386 AD) was a theologian of the early Church. About the end of 350 AD he succeeded Maximus as Bishop of ...

was a 4th-century bishop and a

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Saint Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria ( grc, Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅ also ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 44 ...

was a 5th-century

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. Another Saint Cyril, known as Kiril, was a 9th-century

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and a

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to the Slavs. He, together with his brother Methodius, created an

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called the Glagolitic alphabet to serve the needs of the Slavic world, translating the Bible into the Church Slavic language. Later, their students created a simpler and graphically usable script, which is named after Cyril as the Cyrillic alphabet and is still used by millions of people.

People with the name

Kiril Džajkovski Kiril Džajkovski (Djaikovski), ( mk, Кирил Џајковски ) – often credited as simply Kiril – is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian electronic musician and music composer. Biography In the early 1980s together with Milčo Man ...

, Macedonian musician *Kiril Juha Kainulainen, Finnish photographer *

Kirill Pokrovsky Kirill Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (Kирилл Владимирович Покровский; 25 March 19621 June 2015) was a Russian composer and musician. Kirill Pokrovsky learned to play and compose music from a young age, before receiving clas ...

, Russian/Belgian Composer *Kiryl Tarasenka, Belarusian Aeronautical Engineer *

Kiril Petkov Kiril Petkov Petkov ( bg, Кирил Петков Петков; born 17 April 1980) is a Bulgarian politician, economist, and entrepreneur, who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from December 2021 to August 2022. He is the co-leader of We ...

, Bulgarian politician

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