Hippolytos (first name)

Hippolytos is a male given name .

Origin and meaning

Greek Ἱππόλυτος , who lets go of the horses .

distribution

The name was used in ancient Greece in the Hellenistic and Roman times until the Christian era.

name day

• August 13 ; Hippolytus of Rome (* around 170; † around 235), Catholic saint
• January 30 ; Hippolytus of Antioch († around 255)

variants

A short form of the name is Hippolyt . The feminine form of the first name is Hippolyte .

• Latin : Hippolytus
• French : Hippolyte
• Italian : Ippolito
• Lithuanian : Ipolitas
• Polish : Hipolit
• Russian : Ипполит (Ippolit)
• Spanish : Hipólito

Well-known namesake

• Hippolyt Guarinoni (Hippolytus Guarinonius; 1571–1654), doctor and polymath
• Hippolyt Haas (1855–1913), German paleontologist and geologist
• Hippolyt Kempf (* 1965), Swiss Nordic combined athlete
• Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau (1908–1990), German entrepreneur, forest manager and politician
• Hippolyt August Schaufert (1834–1872), German poet from the Palatinate
• Hippolyt von Turno (1828–1897), manor owner and member of the Reichstag

Hipolit

• Hipolit Cegielski (1813–1868), Polish philologist and entrepreneur
• Hipolit Skimborowicz (1815-1880), Polish writer

Hipolito

• Hipólito Boaventura Caron (1862-1892), Brazilian painter and decorator
• Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez (* 1941), President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004
• Hipólito Ruiz López (1754–1815), Spanish botanist
• Hipólito Yrigoyen (Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen Alem; 1852–1933), President of Argentina

Hippolytus

• Hippolytus Böhlen (1878–1950), Franciscan priest and playwright, editor and representative of youth literature
• Hippolytus Anthony Kunnunkal OFMCap (1921-2008), Indian Roman Catholic Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar
• Hippolytus Steinwehr († 1529), German Catholic priest