Vissarion (given name)

Vissarion (Βησσαρίων, Виссарион) οr Visarion (Висарион) is a Greek male name, which may refer to:

Given name

 * Saint Bessarion of Egypt, also Bessarion the Great or Passarion, Egyptian anchorite, thaumaturge and abbot, pupil of Saint Anthony the Great
 * Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Catholic cardinal and Latin patriarch of Constantinople
 * Visarion, Metropolitan of Herzegovina (s. 1590–1602)
 * Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), Russian literary critic
 * Visarion Ljubiša (1823–1884), Metropolitan of Montenegro (s. 1882–84)
 * Vissarion Dzhugashvili (1849–1909), father of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
 * Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), born as Victor Puiu, Romanian metropolitan bishop
 * Visarion Xhuvani (1890–1965), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania (s. 1929–37)
 * Vissarion Lominadze (1897–1935), Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician
 * Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), Soviet Russian composer
 * Vissarion Korkoliacos (1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monk
 * Vissarion (born 1961 as Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop), Russian mystic

Surname

 * I. C. Vissarion (1879–1951), Romanian writer