Anastasius

Anastasius is a male given name. It is from the Greek ἀνάστασις (anastasis) meaning "resurrection". Its female form is Anastasia.

Proper name

Byzantine emperors

• Anastasius I (emperor) – Byzantine emperor 491–518
• Anastasios II (died 718) – Byzantine emperor 713–715

Popes

• Pope Anastasius I – Pope 399–401
• Pope Anastasius II – Pope 496–498
• Pope Anastasius III – Pope 911–913
• Pope Anastasius IV – Pope 1153 to 1154

Other Christian saints and clergy

• Saint Anastasius – a martyr under Nero
• Saint Anastasius the Fuller – martyr (d. 304)
• Anastasius of Antioch (disambiguation), multiple people
• Saint Anastasius of Persia – Persian martyr (d. 628)
• Saint Anastasius of Pavia– bishop of Pavia (d. 628)
• Anastasius of Armenia – Catholicos of Armenia from 661 to 667
• Saint Anastasius Sinaita (of Sinai) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt. Sinai (7th century)
• Anastasius Bibliothecarius (c. 810–878) – librarian of the Church of Rome, scholar and statesman, sometimes identified as an Antipope
• Astrik or Saint Anastasius of Pannonhalma – ambassador of Stephen I of Hungary (d. 1030)
• Anastasius of Hungary (954-1044), Apostle to Hungary
• Saint Anastasius of Lleida
• St. Anastasius Cornicularius
• Anastasius of Suppentonia – abbot (died 570)
• Pope Anastasius of Alexandria – Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria 605–616
• Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople (I) – Patriarch of Constantinople 730–754
• Anastasius Germonius – Archbishop of Tarantaise and canon lawyer (1551–1627)

Anastasio

• Anastasio Somoza García, Nicaraguan dictator (ruled 1936–1956)
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925–1980), Nicaraguan dictator (ruled 1967–1979)
• Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (born 1951), son of Somoza Debayle

Pseudonym

• Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg (1806–1876) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.

Other

• Anastasius, a novel by Thomas Hope in the early 19th century.