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Cyril or Cyryl Given name
Gender	male
Origin	Greek
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The name Cyrillus or Cyril or Cyryl is derived from Greek Κύριλλος (Kyrillos - lordly, masterful), related to kyrios - lord, master. It is the name of several historic figures:

• Saint Cyril of Alexandria, 4th century Coptic Pope & theologian
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th century Patriarch & theologian
• Cyrillus, 5th century Greek jurist
• The former of the Saints Cyril and Methodius, a 9th century Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, theologian, linguist and apostle to the Slavs, believed to have co-invented the Glagolitic alphabet, the first Slavic alphabet, and translated the Bible into a Slavic language referred to as Old Church Slavonic
• Cyril of Turaw, 12th century Belarusian Orthodox Christian bishop and theologian
• Sir Cyril Burt, 20th century psychologist
• Elder Cyril Pavlov (b. 1919), Russian Orthodox Christian monk, mystic and wonder-worker
• Another name of Nikita the Furrier
• Cyril Smith, British Liberal politician
• Cyril Takayama, Japanese American illusionist
• Cyril Sneer, the fictional villain aardvark of the 1980s cartoon series The Racoons
• S.M. Cyril, educational innovator in India
• Cyril De Zoysa, Sri Lankan businessman and Buddhist revivalist

See also

• Cyrillus (crater) on the moon
• Kyril
• Kyrill
• St. Cyril's Monastery, a monastery in Kiev, Ukraine.

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