Theophilus

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Various people have been known by the name Theophilus or Theophilos, which means "Friend of God". These include:

Theophilos (poet) — ancient Athenian comic poet
Theophilus (geographer) — ancient Greek geographer
Theophilos (king) — Indo-Greek king who ruled c. 90 BC
Theophilus (Biblical) is the name of a person or an honorary title to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles is addressed
Theophilus (emperor) — (829–842) a Byzantine Emperor of the second of the Phrygian dynasty

Churchmen

Theophilus of Antioch — (c. 163–182), an 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
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) a Benedictine monk, author, metallurgist, artist and armourer - thought to be a pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem — current patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem

Some people have used Theophilus as a forename, including:

Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Theophilus Carter, British inventor and furniture dealer
Theophilus Cazenove (1740–1811), financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company
Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber
Theophilus Danjuma, influential Nigerian soldier and politician
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher born in France
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
Henry Theophilus Finck (1854–1926), American musical critic
Theophilus Gale (1628–1678), English nonconformist divine
Theophilos Hatzimihail — (ca. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos
Theophilus H. Holmes (1804–1880), career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1584–1640), English nobleman and politician
Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), English theologian
Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer
Theophilus Shepstone (1817–1893), British South African statesman
Theophilus Weeks (1708–1772), soldier in the French and Indian War
Theophilus of Kiev, a monk and saint — see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev
Theophilus P. Wildebeeste, a character created by Lenny Henry

There is also a Theophilus crater on the moon.

See also