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Various people have been known by the name Theophilus or Theophilos, which means "Friend of God" in Greek, and is thus similar to the Latin word Amadeus

People

Arts

• Teófilo Braga
• Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber
• Henry Theophilus Finck (1854–1926), American musical critic
• Theophilos Hatzimihail — (ca. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos
• Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer

Fictitious

• Theophilus P. Wildebeeste, a character created by Lenny Henry

Historical

• 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

Politics

• Teófilo Borunda
• Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Theophilus Danjuma, influential Nigerian soldier and politician
• 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
• Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1584–1640), English nobleman and politician
• Theophilus Shepstone (1817–1893), British South African statesman

Military

• Theophilus H. Holmes (1804–1880), career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
• Theophilus Weeks (1708–1772), soldier in the French and Indian War

Religious

• 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
• Theophilus, martyr and saint (see Dorothea of Caesarea)
• Theophilus of Kiev, a monk and saint — see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev
• Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), English theologian
• Theophilus Gale (1628–1678), English nonconformist divine

Sports

• Teófilo Cubillas

Others

• Theophilus Carter, British inventor and furniture dealer
• Theophilus Cazenove (1740–1811), financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company
• John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher born in France

Places

• Theophilus crater on the moon.

Other

• Theophilus (comic strip) was a religious comic strip from 1966–2002

See also

• Theophoric name
• Theophilia

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