Orestes (first name)
Orestes is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the ancient Greek name Ὀρέστης (Orestes), which means "the mountain dwellers".
First name
- Name bearer
- Orest Volodymyrowytsch Beresowskyj , secular name of Onufrij (Beresowskyj) (* 1944), Metropolitan of Kiev and the whole of Ukraine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
- Orest Danilowitsch Chwolson (1852–1934), Russian physicist
- Orest Kindrachuk (* 1950), Canadian ice hockey player
- Orest Adamowitsch Kiprenski (1782–1836), Russian portrait painter of the Romantic period
- Orest Lenczyk (* 1942), Polish football player and coach
- Orest Lewyzkyj (1849–1922), Ukrainian historian, ethnologist and writer
- Orest Subtelny (1941–2016), Canadian historian of Ukrainian origin