Historical Persons
- Cephalus, son of Lysanias from Syracuse (5th c.BC), a wealthy metic and elderly arms manufacturer living in Athens who engages in dialogue with Socrates in Plato's Republic. He was the father of orator Lysias, philosopher Polemarchus and Euthydemus.
- Cephalus, Athenian orator who flourished after the time of Thirty Tyrants.
- Cephalus, a Molossian who sided with Perseus in Third Macedonian War.
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