Ancient rulers •
Theophilos (emperor) (c. 812–842), Byzantine Emperor (reigned 829–842), the second of the Phrygian dynasty •
Theophilus (Indo-Greek) (fl. 130 or 90 BC), Indo-Greek king
Ancient and medieval authors •
Theophilus (geographer), ancient Greek geographer •
Theophilus (jurist) (fl. 533), one author of the
Institutes of Justinian •
Theophilus of Edessa (695–785), medieval astrologer and scholar •
Theophilos Erotikos (10th century), Byzantine jurist and geometer •
Theophilus Presbyter (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, author, metallurgist, artist and armourer — thought to be a pseudonym of
Roger of Helmarshausen •
Theophilus Protospatharius, (c. 7th century), Byzantine medical writer
Artists •
Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber •
Theophilus Clarke (1776?–1831), English painter •
Theophilos Hatzimihail (c. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos •
Theofilos (film), a 1987 Greek film
Military •
Theophilos Erotikos (fl. 1034–1042), Byzantine general and governor, rebel in Cyprus •
Theophilus H. Holmes (1804–1880), Confederate general in the American Civil War •
Theophilos Kourkouas (920–970), Byzantine general, grandfather of emperor John I Tzimiskes •
Theophilus Weeks (1708–1772), soldier in the French and Indian War
Musicians •
Theophilus London (born 1987), Trinidadian-American vocalist •
Theophilus Martins (born 1987), American rapper, DJ, and model
Politics •
Theophilus Bradbury (1739–1803), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts •
Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897–1973), Birmingham, Alabama's Commissioner of Public Safety during the American Civil Rights Movement •
Theophilus Daniel (1817–1893), New Zealand politician •
Theophilus Danjuma (born 1938), influential Nigerian soldier and politician •
Theophilus Eaton (1590–1658), merchant, farmer, Puritan colonial leader, co-founder and first governor of New Haven Colony, Connecticut •
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1584–1640), English nobleman and politician •
Theophilus F. Metcalf (1816–1891), American farmer and politician •
Theophilus Shepstone (1817–1893), British South African statesman •
Theophilus Williams (1824–1904), mayor of Ballarat
Religious leaders •
Theophilus (biblical), person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were addressed •
Theophilus ben Ananus,
High Priest of Israel. •
Theophilus of Antioch (died c. 183), Christian apologist and Patriarch of Antioch •
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea (fl. 195) •
Theophilus the Deacon, martyr from Libya •
Theophilus (bishop of the Goths), first known Gothic bishop, participant of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 •
Theophilos the Indian (fl. 354–364), Arian bishop, also called "the Ethiopian", probably from the Maldive Islands •
Patriarch Theophilus (disambiguation) •
Theophilus I of Alexandria (died c. 412), 23rd Pope of Alexandria •
Theophilus of Adana (fl. 538), bishop who made a pact with the devil •
Theophilus Gale (1628–1678), English nonconformist divine •
Theophilus Gates (1787–1846), American religious leader •
Theophilus Herter (1913–1987), American Anglican bishop •
Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), English theologian • Theophilus, a pagan lawyer converted by Saint
Dorothea of Caesarea at the scene of her execution, martyr
Other •
Theophilus Carter (1824–1904), British inventor and furniture dealer •
Theophilus Cazenove (1740–1811), Dutch financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company •
Theophilus Metcalfe (bap. 1610–c. 1645), English stenographer who invented a popular shorthand system •
Theophilus Redwood (1806–1892), Welsh pharmacist ==Fictional characters==