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Darius (from , Dariush, [drju]) is a common Persian male name. Three kings of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was amongst the first Persian Empires that ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed the Ancient Iranian peoples Median Empire....
 of Persia
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 were named Darius:



as well as several other kings:






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Darius (from , Dariush, [drju]) is a common Persian male name. Three kings of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was amongst the first Persian Empires that ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed the Ancient Iranian peoples Median Empire....
 of Persia
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 were named Darius:

  • Darius I of Persia or Darius the Great.
  • Darius II of Persia
    Darius II of Persia

    Darius II , originally called Ochus and often surnamed Nothus , was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 404 BC.Artaxerxes I, who died shortly after December 24, 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II....
  • Darius III of Persia
    Darius III of Persia

    Darius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC. It was under his rule that the Persian Empire was conquered during the Wars of Alexander the Great....


as well as several other kings:
  • Darius of Media Atropatene, an Arsacid satrap
    Satrap

    Satrap was the name given to the governors of the provinces of ancient Medes and Persian Empire empires, including the Achaemenid Empire and in several of their heirs, such as the Sassanid Empire and the Hellenistic civilization empires....
  • Darius of Pontus, of Pontus
    Pontus

    Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in Antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos , or simply Pontos....
  • Darius the Mede
    Book of Daniel

    The Book of Daniel is a book in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Originally written in Hebrew language and Aramaic language, it is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon following the Siege of Jerusalem of 597 BC....


Darius can also refer to:
  • Donovin Darius
    Donovin Darius

    Donovin Lee Darius is an American football Safety who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars 25th overall in the 1998 NFL Draft....
    , an NFL player
  • Steponas Darius
    Steponas Darius

    Steponas Darius was a Lithuanian-United States aviator.Born in Rubi?ke, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire, Dara?ius emigrated to the USA with his family in 1907....
    , a Lithuanian pilot
  • Darius Boyd
    Darius Boyd

    Darius Boyd is an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He plays at wing, centre or fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition....
    , an Australian rugby league footballer
  • Darius N. Couch
    Darius N. Couch

    Darius Nash Couch was a United States Army officer, naturalist, and a Union Army Major general in the American Civil War. Couch rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac, and led division in both the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War and Western Theater of the American Civil War....
    , an American soldier
  • Darius Danesh
    Darius Danesh

    Darius Danesh is a Scotland platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter, and West End theatre stage actor. He rose to fame on the British TV talent show Pop Idol....
    , a Scottish-Persian singer-songwriter
  • Darius Dimavicius
    Darius Dimavicius

    Darius Dimavicius is a former basketball player from Lithuania, who won the bronze medal with the Lithuania national basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
    , a Lithuanian basketball player
  • Darius Grala
    Darius Grala

    Darius Grala is an endurance racing sports car racing driver. He is currently racing in North America and living in the United States. In 2007, Grala will be one of the founding instructors for Supercar Life....
    , a Polish sports car racing driver
  • Darius Kasparaitis
    Darius Kasparaitis

    Darius Kasparaitis is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman , also known by the nickname "Kaspar". He has Russian citizenship and plays for the Russian national hockey team....
    , a hockey player
  • Darius Khondji
    Darius Khondji

    Darius Khondji is an Iranian-French cinematographer....
    , a French-Iranian cinematographer
  • Darius McCrary
    Darius McCrary

    Darius Creston McCrary is an United States film and television actor. McCrary is best known for his role as Eddie Winslow on the television series Family Matters ....
    , American actor
  • Darius Mehrjui
    Darius Mehrjui

    Dariush Mehrjui is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, film producer, and film editor.As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon, Mehrjui is regarded to be one of the intellectual directors of Iranian cinema....
    , an Iranian film director
  • Dariusz Michalczewski
    Dariusz Michalczewski

    Dariusz Michalczewski is a former Poland light heavyweight boxer....
    , a Polish boxer
  • Darius Miles
    Darius Miles

    Darius LaVar Miles is an United States professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association.The , small forward was selected directly out of high school by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 3rd overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft....
    , an NBA player
  • Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud

    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
    , a French composer
  • Darius Mockus
    Darius Mockus

    Darius Mockus is a Lithuanian entrepreneur and mass media owner .Darius Mockus is President of concern ?MG Baltic? and General Director of holding ?MG Baltic Trade?....
    , a Lithuanian entrepreneur
  • Darius Reynaud
    Darius Reynaud

    Darius Reynaud is an American football wide receiver who is a player for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2008....
    , an American football player
  • Darius Rucker
    Darius Rucker

    Darius Rucker is an American muscian. He is known mainly for his role as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock music band Hootie & the Blowfish, of which he has been a member since the band's inception in 1986....
     (Hootie), an American musician
  • Darius Songaila
    Darius Songaila

    Darius Songaila is a Lithuanian professional basketball player, currently with the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards. He stands 6 ft 9 in tall and weighs 248 pounds ....
    , a professional basketball player


  • Darius (Highlander)
    Darius (Highlander)

    Darius is a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Werner Stocker . He first appeared in the season one episode "Highlander: The Series #ep13" and is featured in four subsequent episodes of the same season, as well as in one Highlander novel....
    , an Immortal from Highlander: The Series
  • Darius (arcade game)
    Darius (arcade game)

    is a horizontally Shoot 'em up#Scrolling shooters arcade game released by Taito Corporation in 1986 in video gaming. It is the first game in the Darius Darius series and it is played using a unique three-screen arcade cabinet setup....
    , the first in a series of video games


Dario is the counterpart of Darius in Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 and Croatian
Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
 and other Slavic languages:
  • Rubén Darío
    Rubén Darío

    F?lix Rub?n Garc?a Sarmiento also known as Rub?n Dar?o was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated Spanish-American literary movement known as Modernismo , flourishing at the end of the 19th century....
    , a Nicaraguan poet
  • Ciudad Darío
    Ciudad Darío

    Ciudad Dar?o is a municipality in the Matagalpa Departments of Nicaragua of Nicaragua. It is the birthplace of poet Rub?n Dar?o. The municipality was previously called Metapa....
    , a Nicaraguan municipality named after Rubén Darío
  • Dario Argento
    Dario Argento

    Dario Argento is an Italy film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror film and slasher film....
    , an Italian film director
  • Dario Badinelli
    Dario Badinelli

    Dario Badinelli is a retired Italy triple jumper.Achievements References ...
    , an Italian triple jumper
  • Dario Bellezza
    Dario Bellezza

    Dario Bellezza was an Italian people gay poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio Prize, Gatto, and Montale prizes....
    , an Italian poet
  • Dario Chioli
    Dario Chioli

    Dario Chioli is an Italy poet, a religious philosopher, and esotericist and essayist author. He was born in Turin....
    , an Italian poet and philosopher
  • Dario Dainelli
    Dario Dainelli

    Dario Dainelli is an Italy football player. He is the captain of ACF Fiorentina and plays as a Defender ....
    , an Italian footballer currently captain of Fiorentina
  • Dario Fo
    Dario Fo

    Dario Fo is an Italy Satire, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 and in 2007 he was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The The Daily Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses....
    , an Italian Nobel prize winner
  • Dario Franchitti
    Dario Franchitti

    George Dario Marino Franchitti is a Scotland race car driver of Italian-Scots. He formerly competed in the Champ Car series before switching to the Indy Racing League where he was 2007 champion, and won the rain-shortened 2007 Indianapolis 500....
    , a Scottish Indianapolis 500 winner and IndyCar Series champion
  • Dario García
    Dario García

    Dar?o Osvaldo Gast?n Garc?a Aguilar is a retired male judoka from Argentina. He claimed the gold medal in the Men's Light-Middleweight division at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar de Plata....
    , an Argentine judoka
  • Dario Hübner
    Dario Hübner

    Dario H?bner , nicknamed Bisonte , is an Italy football player, in the role of striker .H?bner started his career in 1987-88 at A.S....
    , an Italian footballer
  • Dario Lari
    Dario Lari

    Dario Lari is a Sport rowing from Italy. He competed for his native counry at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and won the gold medal in the men's coxless pairs at the 2005 Mediterranean Games alongside Luca Agamennoni....
    , an Italian rower
  • Dario Marianelli
    Dario Marianelli

    Dario Marianelli is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-winning composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm and Pride & Prejudice ....
    , an Italian film composer
  • Darío Moreno
    Darío Moreno

    Dar?o Moreno was a Turkish people Polyglot singer of Jewish origin, as well as an accomplished composer, lyricist and guitarist, who was born in Izmir, Turkey, in 1921, and who attained fame and made a remarkable career centered in France which also included films, during the 1950s and the 1960s....
    , a Turkish-born Sephardic Jew singer and composer
  • Darío Silva
    Darío Silva

    Dario Debray Silva Pereira , commonly known as Dar?o Silva, is a football who played as a striker and has recently come out of retirement following serious injury....
    , a former Uruguayan footballer
  • Dario Šimic
    Dario Šimic

    Dario ?imic [] is a Croatian football player who currently plays for AS Monaco FC. Nicknamed 'The Pitbull' for his fearsome competitiveness, ?imic is a versatile defender who can play at full-back, sweeper or central defender....
    , a Croatian footballer
  • Darijo Srna
    Darijo Srna

    Darijo Srna [] is a Croatian association football who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk and the Croatia national football team, in which he is currently the leading goalscorer out of the current active squad, and second on the all time list....
    , a Croatian footballer
  • Dario Resta
    Dario Resta

    Dario Dolly Resta was an Italian Briton race car driver. Raised in England from the age of two, he began racing there starting in 1907. He took part in the Montagu Cup the very first race of the now historic Brooklands track....
    , an Italian |Indianapolis 500 winner
  • Dario, a villain in the James Bond film Licence to Kill
    Licence to Kill

    Licence to Kill is the sixteenth spy film in the James Bond , and the second and last to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond....
    '


  • Dario (brand)
    Dario (brand)

    Dario is a French radio Thermionic valve manufacturer, part of the Philips Group....
    , a trademark for electrical products

See also

  • Dariush
    Dariush

    Dariush is a common Persian male given name. People by this name include:*Daryoush Ashouri, Iranian intellectualist*Dariush Eghbali, Iranian pop singer...