Photios (name)

Photios (Greek: Φώτιος), also written as Fotios, is a Greek name, latinized as Photius.

It commonly refers to Saint Photios I of Constantinople (c. 810/820 – 893), an Eastern Orthodox scholar and Patriarch of Constantinople.

A modern diminutive variant is Fotis (Greek: Φώτης).

Notable people with the name include:

• Saint Photius the Martyr, a Christian martyr under Emperor Diocletian (died 305)
• Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete
• Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431)
• Photius Fisk, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy (1807–1890)
• Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras, a French author, politician, poet, and critic who was a founder of Action Française (1868-1952)
• Patriarch Photius II of Constantinople (1874–1935)
• Patriarch Photius of Alexandria (died 1925)
• Photios of Korytsa (1862–1906), Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Korçë
• Photis Kontoglou (1895–1965), Greek writer and iconographer
• Fotios Katsikaris, Greek basketball coach
• Fotios Lampropoulos, Greek basketball player
• Photis Stephani, Cypriot pole vaulter
• Fotios Vasilopoulos (born 1986), Greek basketball player
• Fotios Zoumpos, Greek basketball player