Alexius
Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (Greek: Αλέξιος, polytonic Ἀλέξιος, "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the Byzantine Empire. The female form is Alexia (Greek: Αλεξία) and its variants such as Alessia (the masculine form of which is Alessio) in Italian.
| Gender | Male | 
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Greek | 
| Other names | |
| See also | Alexia (female) Alexey  | 
The name belongs to the most ancient attested Greek names (a-re-ke-se-u in the Linear B tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).
Rulers
    
- Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
 - Alexios II Komnenos (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
 - Alexios III, Byzantine emperor
 - Alexios IV, Byzantine emperor
 - Alexios V Doukas, Byzantine emperor
 - Alexios I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
 - Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
 - Alexios III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
 - Alexios IV of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
 - Alexios V of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
 - Alexius Mikhailovich (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia
 - Alexius Petrovich (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich
 
Religious figures
    
- Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow (1354–1378)
 - Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople (1025–1043)
 - Alexius (c. 1425–1488), Russian archpriest who converted to Judaism
 - Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1945–1970)
 - Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1990–2008)
 - Alexius of Nicaea, metropolitan bishop
 - Saint Alexius of Rome, fifth-century eastern saint
 - Alexius, a monk and saint of Kiev - see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev
 
Other
    
- Alexios Apokaukos, Byzantine statesman
 - Alexios Aspietes, Byzantine governor
 - Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
 - Alexios Halebian, American tennis player
 - Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
 - Alexios Mosele (Caesar), Byzantine heir-apparent
 - Alexios Palaiologos (despot), Byzantine heir-apparent
 - Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general
 - Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
 - Alexios Strategopoulos, Byzantine general
 - Alexios Xiphias, Byzantine Catepan of Italy
 - Alexios (Assassin's Creed), a fictional character in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
 
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