Editing Stephanos (section)

{{About|the given name|the Greek mathematician|Cyparissos Stephanos}}

'''Stephanos''' or '''Stefanos''', in [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|Στέφανος}}, is a masculine given name derived from the Greek word {{lang|grc|στέφανος}} (''stéphanos''), meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", from the verb {{lang|grc|στέφειν}} (''stéphein''), "to encircle, to wreathe".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Stephen&searchmode=none |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-01}}</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dste%2Ffanos στέφανος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> In [[Ancient Greece]], crowning wreaths (such as [[laurel wreath]]s) 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]]'' of [[Homer]].<ref>[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 Homer, Iliad, 13.736], on Perseus</ref> The English equivalent is [[Stephen]].

People or biblical figures with the given name include:
;Antiquity & Middle Ages (chronologically)
* [[Saint Stephen]] (Greek: Stéphanos) (c. AD 5-c. 34), considered the first Christian martyr
* [[Stephanos Byzantios]], 6th-century author of a geographical dictionary
* [[Stephanos of Alexandria]] (fl. c. 580–c. 640), Byzantine philosopher and teacher
* [[Stephanos Sahlikis]] (1330–after 1391), Cretan satirical poet
* [[Stephanos Tzangarolas]] (1660-1675–1710), Greek painter of the late Cretan Renaissance

;Modern period (alphabetically)
* [[Stephanos of Tallinn|Stephanos, primate of Tallinn]] (born 1940), primate of the Orthodox Church of Estonia since 1999
* [[Stephanos Bibas]] (born 1969), United States circuit judge and professor of law and criminology
* [[Stephanos Christopoulos]] (1876–after 1906), Greek wrestler and weightlifter
* [[Stefanos Dedas]] (born 1982), Greek professional basketball head coach
* [[Stefanos Dragoumis]] (1842–1923), Greek judge, writer and Prime Minister of Greece in 1910
* [[Stefanos Gennadis]] (1858-1922), Greek general
* [[Stefanos Kapino]] (born 1994), Greek football goalkeeper
* [[Stefanos Kasselakis]] (born 1988), Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician
* [[Stephanos Mousouros]], Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1896 to 1899
* [[Stephanos Papadopoulos]] (born 1976), Greek-American poet
* [[Stephanos Stephanides]] (born 1951), Cypriot-born author, poet, translator, critic, ethnographer and documentary filmmaker
* [[Stephanos Theodosius]] (1924–2007), Bishop of the Calcutta diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church
* [[Stefanos Tsitsipas]] (born 1998), Greek tennis player