List of Cypriots - Historical Figures

Historical Figures

• Acesas (around 5th century BC), ancient artist, famed weaver
• Grigoris Afxentiou, member of EOKA
• Altheides, philosopher
• St Barnabas (1st century), apostolic father, early missionary
• Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus
• Charlotte of Cyprus, Queen of Cyprus
• Clearchus of Soli (4th–3rd century BC), Cyprus-born Greek philosopher of the Peripatetic school
• Evagoras, king of Salamis (BC 410–374)
• Henry I of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Hugh I of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Hugh II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Hugh III of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Hugh IV of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• James I of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• James II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• James III of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Janus of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Stefano Lusignan, writer
• Leontios Makhairas, Historian
• Kyriakos Matsis, member of EOKA
• Nicocreon, king of Salamis (4th century BC – before 306 BC)
• Evagoras Pallikarides, member of EOKA
• Abu Bekr Pasha
• Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha, Grand Vizier
• Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha, (born 1883), Grand Vizier
• Persaeus of Citium (306–243 BC), Stoic philosopher
• Peter I of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Peter II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus
• Sergius Paulus (1st century), proconsul of Cyprus
• Stasanor (lived 4th century BC), Cyprus-born Greek officer of Alexander the Great, later satrap of Drangiana, Bactria, and Sogdiana
• Stasinus (~7th century BC), one of the first European poets, a semi-legendary early Greek poet, author of the epic poem, Cypria, related to the Trojan War
• Theodora (around 500 – 548), empress of Byzantine empire (527–548)
• Zeno of Citium (333–264 BC), Cyprus-born Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism