Stephanos
{{About|the given name|the Greek mathematician|Cyparissos Stephanos}}
Stephanos or Stefanos, in 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".{{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}}[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 In Ancient Greece, crowning wreaths (such as laurel wreaths) 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.[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 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, 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