Alexius
# 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.

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
