Nicetas

Nicetas or Nikitas or Niketas (Νικήτας) is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic forms: Nikita, Mykyta and Mikita

People with the name Nicetas

 * Nicetes (or Nicetas) of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic
 * Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania
 * Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr
 * Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th-century archbishop of Aquileia
 * Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th-century Byzantine general
 * Niketas the Persian, 7th-century Byzantine officer
 * Nicetas Scutariota, a Byzantine writer from Scutari (modern Üsküdar)
 * Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th-century Byzantine general
 * Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos
 * Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, c. 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm
 * Niketas Byzantios, ninth century, Byzantine theologian, school of Photius, wrote on Islam
 * Niketas Ooryphas ( 860 – 873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
 * Niketas (son of Ioube) ( 912), Byzantine general and governor
 * Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th-century Greek catenist
 * Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles, see Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
 * Nicetas of Novgorod ( 1095 – 1108), saint and Bishop of Novgorod
 * Nicetas Serron, archbishop of Serres and afterwards of Heraclea, and writer. Around 11th century
 * Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
 * Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
 * Nicetas Thessalonicensis, archbishop of Thessalonica and writer, around 1200
 * Nicetas (Bogomil bishop) (papa Nicetas), 12th-century bishop of Constantinople
 * Niketas Choniates (c. 1155 – c. 1215), Byzantine historian
 * Niketas Scholares ( 1341 – 1361), Byzantine Greek military leader
 * Nicetas I of Constantinople ( 766 – 780), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 * Nicetas II of Constantinople ( 1186 – 1189), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
 * Niketas Stethatos (Nicetas Pectoratus, c. 1005 – c. 1090), Byzantine mystic and theologian
 * Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886
 * Nikon Nizetas, cover name of WW1 spy Alfred Redl