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Sixteen popes and two antipopes have used the name Gregorius, starting with Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). It is tied with Benedict as the second-most popular name for popes, after John . Although the name was uncommon in the early 20th century, after the popularity of the actor Gregory Peck it became one of the ten most common male names ...
Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 329 – 25 January 390) Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–395) Hecataeus of Abdera (fourth century BCE) Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BCE) Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360–415 CE) Irenaeus (c. 140–202 CE) Leucippus (fifth century BCE) Parmenides (late sixth or early fifth century BCE) Pherecydes of Syros (sixth century BCE) Plato ...
The Gregorian mission was a group of Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the late 6th and early 7th centuries to convert and Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. [1] The first group consisted of about 40 monks and priests, some of whom had been monks in Gregory's own monastery ...
Gregory Nazianzus – Bishop of Constantinople; Nearchus – Macedonian general; Neoptolemus of Parion – poet and critic; Nicander – King of Sparta; Nicarchus – poet; Nicias – Athenian statesman; Nicon (also Nikon) (Νίκων) - a pirate from Pherae [14] King Nicias – Indo-Greek king; Nicocreon – tyrant of Cyprus; Nicomachus ...
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845): Scottish con man who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of "Poyais". [2]Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756–1791): Chief conspirator in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which further tarnished the French royal family's already-poor reputation and, along with other causes, eventually led to the French Revolution.
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
Gregory Gillespie (1936–2000), American magic realist painter; James Gillick (born 1972), English painter and applied artist; William George Gillies (1898–1973), Scottish painter; Harold Gilman (1945–2000), English painter; Aleksander Gine (1830–1980), Russian painter; Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005), English artist and illustrator
Pages in category "Greek masculine given names" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acamas;