# Stephanos

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This article is about the given name. For the Greek mathematician, see [Cyparissos Stephanos](/source/Cyparissos_Stephanos). For the star, see [Pi Coronae Borealis](/source/Pi_Coronae_Borealis).

**Stephanos** or **Stefanos**, in [Greek](/source/Greek_language) Στέφανος, is a masculine given name derived from the Greek word στέφανος (*stéphanos*), meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", from the verb στέφειν (*stéphein*), "to encircle, to wreathe".[1][2] In [Ancient Greece](/source/Ancient_Greece), crowning wreaths (such as [laurel wreaths](/source/Laurel_wreath)) were given to the winners of contests. Originally, as the verb suggests, the noun had a more general meaning of any "circle"—including a circle of people, a circling wall around a city, and, in its earliest recorded use, the circle of a fight, which is found in the *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)* of [Homer](/source/Homer).[3] The English equivalent is [Stephen](/source/Stephen).

People or biblical figures with the given name include:

**Antiquity & Middle Ages (chronologically)**

- [Saint Stephen](/source/Saint_Stephen) (Greek: Stéphanos) (c. AD 5-c. 34), considered the first Christian martyr

- [Stephanos Byzantios](/source/Stephanos_Byzantios), 6th-century author of a geographical dictionary

- [Stephanos of Alexandria](/source/Stephanos_of_Alexandria) (fl. c. 580–c. 640), Byzantine philosopher and teacher

- [Stephanos Sahlikis](/source/Stephanos_Sahlikis) (1330–after 1391), Cretan satirical poet

- [Stephanos Tzangarolas](/source/Stephanos_Tzangarolas) (1660-1675–1710), Greek painter of the late Cretan Renaissance

**Modern period (alphabetically)**

- [Stephanos, primate of Tallinn](/source/Stephanos_of_Tallinn) (born 1940), primate of the Orthodox Church of Estonia since 1999

- [Stephanos Bibas](/source/Stephanos_Bibas) (born 1969), United States circuit judge and professor of law and criminology

- [Stephanos Christopoulos](/source/Stephanos_Christopoulos) (1876–after 1906), Greek wrestler and weightlifter

- [Stefanos Dedas](/source/Stefanos_Dedas) (born 1982), Greek professional basketball head coach

- [Stefanos Dragoumis](/source/Stefanos_Dragoumis) (1842–1923), Greek judge, writer and Prime Minister of Greece in 1910

- [Stefanos Gennadis](/source/Stefanos_Gennadis) (1858-1922), Greek general

- [Stefanos Kapino](/source/Stefanos_Kapino) (born 1994), Greek football goalkeeper

- [Stefanos Kasselakis](/source/Stefanos_Kasselakis) (born 1988), Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician

- [Stephanos Mousouros](/source/Stephanos_Mousouros), Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1896 to 1899

- [Stephanos Papadopoulos](/source/Stephanos_Papadopoulos) (born 1976), Greek-American poet

- [Stephanos Stephanides](/source/Stephanos_Stephanides) (born 1951), Cypriot-born author, poet, translator, critic, ethnographer and documentary filmmaker

- [Stephanos Theodosius](/source/Stephanos_Theodosius) (1924–2007), Bishop of the Calcutta diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church

- [Stefanos Tsitsipas](/source/Stefanos_Tsitsipas) (born 1998), Greek tennis player

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Online Etymology Dictionary"](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Stephen&searchmode=none). Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2012-02-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [στέφανος](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dste%2Ffanos), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, *A Greek-English Lexicon*, on Perseus

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Homer, Iliad, 13.736](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?greek.display=UnicodeC&arabic.display=UnicodeC&language=original&navbar.display=show&doc=Hom.+Il.+13.736&fromdoc=null), on Perseus

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