Hyacinth (given name)
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Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe. The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple.[1]
English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia. European equivalents include Hyacinthe (French), Hyazinth (German),[2] Jacek (Polish, male), Iakinf (Иакинф; Russian). The Spanish name Jacinta is closely related, referring to the hyacinth flower. Jacinda (Greek and Spanish) may refer to either.[3]
Hyacinth may also refer to:
Mythology
- Hyacinth and Protus (martyred 257–9), Christian saints
- Hyacinth Bobone (c.1106–1198), after 1191 Pope Celestine III
- Hyacinth (Bichurin) (1777–1853), one of the founding fathers of Sinology
- Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo (born 1955), vicar and bishop
- Hyacinth Gabriel Connon (1911–1978), Lasallian Brother and a president of De La Salle University
- Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz (1893–1968), German Army officer
- Hyacinth Morgan (1885–1956), Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
- Hyacinth of Caesarea (died 108), early Christian martyr saint
- Hyacinth Tungutalum (1946–2009), Australian politician
- Saint Hyacinth (1185–1257), Polish priest, canonized 1594
- Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot (1834–1904), Irish lawyer
- Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de Bougainville (1781-1846) French naval officer, son of Louis de Bougainville
- Hyacinth (mythology), divine hero in Greek mythology
Fiction
- Hyacinth Robinson, the main character of Henry James' 1886 novel The Princess Casamassima
