Photios (name)

Photios 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.

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