Theophilus

Theophilus

Origin
Meaning	Love of God Friend of God
Region of origin	Greek
Other names
Variant form(s)	Théophile

Theophilus is a male given name with a range of alternative spellings. Its origin is the Greek word Θεόφιλος from θεός (God) and φιλία (love or affection) can be translated as "Love of God" or "Friend of God", i.e., it is a theophoric name, synonymous with the name Amadeus which originates from Latin. Theophilus may refer to:

People

Arts

• Theophilus Presbyter — (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, and author of the best-known medieval "how-to" guide to several arts, including oil painting — thought to be a pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen
• Teófilo Braga
• Theophilus Cibber — (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber
• Theophilos Hatzimihail — (ca. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 18th-century composer whose baptismal name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus

Fictitious

• Theophilus P. Wildebeeste, a character created by Lenny Henry
• Professor Theophilus Branestawm, the protagonist of the Professor Branestawm series of children's books
• Theophilus Msimangu, a character in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country.
• Theophilus North - the last novel written by Thornton Wilder, first published in 1973
• Theophilus Toad, a character based from 'Wind in the Willows' used in Counselling for Toads by Robert de Board.
• Theophilus Goon was the bumbling, bad-tempered local policeman in Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers series of children's mystery novels. Normally known simply as "Mr. Goon", or occasionally as "P.C. Goon", he is identified in places as Theophilus Goon.
• Dr. Theophilus Tanner, a character from the Deathlands series of books

Historical

• Theophilus (geographer) — ancient Greek geographer
• Theophilos (king) — Indo-Greek king who ruled c. 90 BC
• Theophilus Protospatharius — (c. 7th century), Byzantine medical writer
• Theophilos (emperor) — (813–842), Byzantine Emperor (r. 829–842), the second of the Phrygian dynasty
• Theophilus of Edessa — (695–785), medieval astrologer and scholar
• Theophilos Erotikos (10th century) — Byzantine jurist and geometer

Politics

• Teófilo Borunda
• Theophilus Bradbury — (1739–1803), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor — (1897-1973), Birmingham, Alabama's notorious Commissioner of Public Safety during the American Civil Rights Movement
• Theophilus Danjuma — influential Nigerian soldier and politician
• William Theophilus Dortch — (1824–1889), prominent Confederate politician
• Theophilus Eaton — (1590–1658), merchant, farmer, Puritan colonial leader, co-founder and first governor of New Haven Colony, Connecticut
• Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk — (1584–1640), English nobleman and politician
• Theophilus Shepstone — (1817–1893), British South African statesman

Military

• Theophilos Kourkouas — distinguished 10th-century Byzantine general, grandfather of emperor John I Tzimiskes
• Theophilos Erotikos — Byzantine general and governor, rebel in Cyprus in 1042
• Theophilus H. Holmes — (1804–1880), career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Theophilus Weeks — (1708–1772), soldier in the French and Indian War

Religious

• Theophilus (biblical) — the name of a person or an honorary title to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles is addressed
• Theophilus of Antioch — (c. 163–182), early Christian patriarch
• Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea — (d. 195)
• Theophilos the Indian — (d. 364) Arian bishop, also called "The Ethiopian", probably from the Maldive Islands
• Pope Theophilus of Alexandria — (d. 412) Patriarch of Alexandria
• Theophilus of Adana — (d. c. 538) bishop who made a pact with the devil
• Pope Theophilus II of Alexandria — Coptic Pope of Alexandria (953–956) and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark
• Theophilus Presbyter — (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, author, metallurgist, artist and armourer — thought to be a pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen
• Theophilus Gale — (1628–1678), English nonconformist divine
• Theophilus Lindsey — (1723–1808), English theologian
• Patriarch Theofilos III of Jerusalem — current patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
• Theophilus — martyr and saint (see Dorothea of Caesarea)
• Theophilus of Kiev — a monk and saint — see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev

Sports

• Teófilo Cubillas — (born 1949), Peruvian footballer
• Kévin Théophile-Catherine — (born 1989), French footballer

Philosophy

• One of Leibniz's interlocutors in his book New Essays on Human Understanding

Music

• Theophilus London
• Theophilus Martins

Others

• Theophilus Carter — British inventor and furniture dealer
• Theophilus Cazenove — (1740–1811), financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company
• John Theophilus Desaguliers — (1683–1744), natural philosopher born in France

Places

• Theophilus (crater) on the moon

Other

• Theophilus (comic strip) was a religious comic strip from 1966–2002
• Theofilos (film), a 1987 Greek film
• MS Abel Tasman, a ship renamed Theophilus

See also

• Theophilia, Love of God