Orestes (given name)
Orestes or Orestis (Greek: Ορέστης) is a Greek name meaning 'mountain dweller'.[1]
Furies
and driven mad.
Equivalents in different languages include:
- Aresti – found mostly in the Basque country and the island of Sardinia
- Oreste – Italian
- Orest (Cyrillic: Орест) – Ukrainian (sometimes Oryst in transliteration), Polish and Russian
Given name
- Orest Banach (born 1948), American soccer player
- Orest Khvolson (1852–1934), Russian physicist
- Orest Kindrachuk (born 1950), Canadian ice hockey player
- Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836), Russian artist and portraitist
- Orest Lenczyk (born 1942), Polish soccer manager
- Orest Levytsky (1848–1922), Ukrainian historian
- Orest Meleschuk (born 1940), Canadian curler
- Orest Miller (1833–1889), Russian folklorist and academic
- Orest Onofrei (born 1957), Romanian veterinarian and politician
- Orest Romashyna(born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player
- Orest Somov (1793–1833), Ukrainian writer
- Orest Subtelny (1941–2016), Canadian historian
- Orest Sushko, Canadian sound mixer
- Orest Tereshchuk (born 1981), Ukrainian tennis player
- Orest Zerebko (1887–1943), Canadian journalist and politician
- Oreste Biancoli (1897–1971), Italian screenwriter and film director
- Oreste Squinobal (1943–2004), Italian mountain climber and ski mountaineer
- Oreste Recchione (1841–1904), Italian painter[2]
- Oreste Tescari (born 1923), Italian rugby player
- Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus) (died 476), Roman politician and associate of Attila the Hun
- Orestes (prefect), 5th-century official of Alexandria
- Orestes of Cappadocia, Christian martyr under Diocletian
- Orestes of Jerusalem (died 1006), Patriarch of Jerusalem (986–1006)
- Orestes of Macedon (died 397/8 BC), king in the 4th century BCE
- Orestes Brownson (1803–1876), American publisher
- Orestes Caviglia (1893–1971), Argentine film director and actor
- Orestes A. Crowell (1872–1967), American politician
- Orestes Destrade (born 1962), American baseball player
- Orestes Garrison (1813–1874), American politician
- Orestes Junior Alves(born 1981), Brazilian soccer player
- Orestes Kindelán (born 1964), Cuban baseball player
- Orestes López (1908–1991), Cuban bandleader
- Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso (1923–2015), Cuban-born professional baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer
- Orestes Ojeda (1956-2021), Filipino actor
- Orestes Quércia (1938–2010), Brazilian politician
- Orestes Rodríguez Williams (born 1989), Cuban sprinter and Olympic competitor
- Orestes Vilató (born 1944), Cuban-American musician
- Orestis Karnezis (born 1985), Greek soccer player
- Orestis Laskos (1907–1992), Greek film director, screenwriter and actor
- Orestis Makris (1898–1975), Greek actor and tenor
- Saint Orestes(died 60 AD), Christian martyr
- Oreste Calleja (born 1946), Maltese playwright
References
- ISBN 978-884675415-8.
- ^ "Casa degli artisti di Palena – Associazione culturale Palenese". www.associazioneculturalepalenese.com. Retrieved 2015-12-14.