Theophilus

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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 Clarke, English painter
• 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 (1843–1924), Portuguese writer, playwright, and politician
• 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 (1756–1791), 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 Goon, a policeman in Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers series of children's mystery novels
• Dr. Theophilus Tanner, a character from the Deathlands series of books

Historical

• Theophilus (geographer), ancient Greek geographer
• Theophilus (jurist) (fl. 533), one author of the Institutes of Justinian
• 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 (1912–2001), Mexican politician
• 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 (born 1938), 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 (920–970), Byzantine general, grandfather of emperor John I Tzimiskes
• Theophilos Erotikos (fl. 1034–1042), Byzantine general and governor, rebel in Cyprus
• 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

• Various Patriarchs by the name of Theophilus
• Theophilus (biblical), the name or honorary title of a person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were addressed
• Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea (fl. 195)
• Theophilos the Indian (fl. 354–364), Arian bishop, also called "The Ethiopian", probably from the Maldive Islands
• Theophilus of Adana (fl. 538), bishop who made a pact with the devil
• 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
• Theophilus, martyr and saint (see Dorothea of Caesarea)
• Theophilus of Kiev, monk and saint — see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev

Sports

• Teófilo Cubillas (born 1949), Peruvian footballer
• Teófilo Stevenson (1952-2012), Cuban boxer
• Kévin Théophile-Catherine (born 1989), French footballer

Music

• Theophilus London (born 1987), Trinidadian-American vocalist
• Theophilus Martins (born 1987), American rapper, DJ, and model

Others

• Theophilus Carter (1824–1904), British inventor and furniture dealer
• Theophilus Cazenove (1740–1811), Dutch financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company
• John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher born in France

Other uses

• Theophilus, one of Leibniz's interlocutors in his book New Essays on Human Understanding
• Theophilus (comic strip) was a religious comic strip from 1966–2002
• Theophilus (crater) on the moon
• Theofilos (film), a 1987 Greek film
• MS Theofilos, a passenger/vehicle ferry

See also

• Theophilia, Love of God