Editing Alexius

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| seealso = [[Alexia (given name)|Alexia]] (female)<br/>[[Alexey]]
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'''Alexius''' is the [[Latinization (literature)|Latinized]] form of the given name '''Alexios''' ({{langx|el|Αλέξιος}}, polytonic {{lang|grc|Ἀλέξιος}}, "defender", cf. [[Alexander]]), especially common in the [[Byzantine Empire]]. The female form is '''[[Alexia (given name)|Alexia]]''' ({{langx|el|Αλεξία}}) and its variants such as [[Alessia]] (the masculine form of which is [[Alessio (disambiguation)|Alessio]]) in Italian.

The name belongs to the most ancient attested Greek names (a-re-ke-se-u in the [[Linear B]] tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).

== Rulers ==
* [[Alexios I Komnenos]] (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
* [[Alexios II Komnenos]] (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
* [[Alexios III Angelos|Alexios III]], Byzantine emperor
* [[Alexios IV]], Byzantine emperor
* [[Alexios V Doukas]], Byzantine emperor
* [[Alexios I of Trebizond]], Emperor of Trebizond
* [[Alexios II of Trebizond]], Emperor of Trebizond
* [[Alexios III of Trebizond]], Emperor of Trebizond
* [[Alexios IV of Trebizond]], Emperor of Trebizond
* [[Alexios V of Trebizond]], Emperor of Trebizond
* [[Alexius Mikhailovich]] (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia
* [[Alexius Petrovich]] (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich

==Religious figures==
* [[Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow]] (1354–1378)
* [[Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople]] (1025–1043)
* [[Aleksei (convert)|Alexius]] (c. 1425–1488), Russian archpriest who converted to Judaism
* [[Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow]] and All Russia (r. 1945–1970)
* [[Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow]] and All Russia (r. 1990–2008)
* [[Alexius of Nicaea]], metropolitan bishop
* Saint [[Alexius of Rome]], fifth-century eastern saint

==Other==
* [[Alexios Apokaukos]], Byzantine statesman
* [[Alexios Aspietes]], Byzantine governor
* [[Alexios Branas]], Byzantine general
* [[Alexios Halebian]], American tennis player
* [[Alexius Meinong]], Austrian philosopher
* [[Alexios Mosele (Caesar)]], Byzantine heir-apparent
* [[Alexios Palaiologos (despot)]], Byzantine heir-apparent
* [[Alexios Philanthropenos]], Byzantine general
* [[Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios)]], Byzantine general
* [[Alexios Strategopoulos]], Byzantine general
* [[Alexios Xiphias]], Byzantine Catepan of Italy
* [[Alexios (Assassin's Creed)]], a fictional character in ''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey''

==Alexius in other languages==
* English – Alexis, Aleck
* German – Alexius, Alexis
* Greek – Αλέξιος [''Alexios''], Αλέξης [''Alexis'']
* French – Alexis
* Italian – Alessio
* Spanish – Alejo, Alexis 
* Portuguese – Aleixo
* Latvian – Alexius, Aleksis, Aleksejs
* Polish – Aleksy
* Czech – Aleš, Alexej
* Slovak – Aleš
* Estonian – Aleksei 
* Bulgarian – Алексей [Aleksej]
* Serbian – Aleksa
* Finnish – Aleksi, Aleksis
* Macedonian – Aleksio
* Georgian – ალექსი, [''Aleksi'' ]
* Belarusian – Аляксей [Aleksiej]
* Russian – Алексей [''Alexei'', ''Alexey'', ''Aleksei'', ''Aleksey]'', Алексий [''Alexiy]'', Алёша [''Alyosha]'', Лёша [''Lyosha'']
* Ukrainan – Олексій [''Oleksii'', ''Oleksiy''], Олекса [''Oleksa'']
* Hungarian – Elek 


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