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Photios (Greek: Φώτιος), also written as Fotios, is a Greek name, latinized as Photius.
It commonly refers to Saint Photios I of Constantinople (c. 810/820 – 893), an Eastern Orthodox scholar and Patriarch of Constantinople.
A modern diminutive variant is Fotis (Greek: Φώτης).
Notable people with the name include:
- Saint Photius the Martyr, a Christian martyr under Emperor Diocletian (died 305)
- Photios (Emirate of Crete) (fl. 870s), Byzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete
- Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow (died 1431)
- Photius Fisk, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy (1807–1890)
- Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras, a French author, politician, poet, and critic who was a founder of Action Française (1868-1952)
- Patriarch Photius II of Constantinople (1874–1935)
- Patriarch Photius of Alexandria (died 1925)
- Photios of Korytsa (1862–1906), Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Korçë
- Photis Kontoglou (1895–1965), Greek writer and iconographer
- Fotios Katsikaris, Greek basketball coach
- Fotios Lampropoulos, Greek basketball player
- Photis Stephani, Cypriot pole vaulter
- Fotios Vasilopoulos (born 1986), Greek basketball player
- Fotios Zoumpos, Greek basketball player