List of Famous people named Constantine

Similar names: Konstantin, Konstantyn, Konstantine, Konstantina. Here are some famous Constantines:

Constantine II

First Name Constantine
Last Name II
Born on November 30, 0709
Died on November 30, 0799 (aged 90)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Antipope Constantine II was a Roman prelate who claimed the papacy from 28 June 767 to 6 August 768. He was overthrown through the intervention of the Lombards and tortured before he was condemned and expelled from the Church during the Lateran Council of 769.

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Konstantinos IX Monomachos

First Name Konstantinos
Born on January 1, 1000
Died on January 11, 1055 (aged 55)

Constantine IX Monomachos, Latinized as Monomachus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 11 June 1042 to 11 January 1055. He had been chosen by Zoë Porphyrogenita as a husband and co-emperor in 1042, although he had been exiled for conspiring against her previous husband, Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian. They ruled together until Zoë died in 1050.

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Constantine II of Scotland

First Name Constantine
Last Name Scotland
Died on January 1, 0952
Born in United Kingdom

Constantine, son of Áed was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba. The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifetime, was situated in modern-day Scotland.

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Constantine the African

First Name Constantine
Last Name African
Born on November 30, 1019
Died on January 1, 1087 (aged 67)

Constantine the African was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in North Africa and the rest in Italy. He first arrived in Italy in the coastal town of Salerno, home of the Schola Medica Salernitana, where his work attracted attention from the local Lombard and Norman rulers. Constantine then became a Benedictine monk, living the last decades of his life at the abbey of Monte Cassino.

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Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

First Name Constantine,
Last Name Hesse-Rotenburg
Born on May 24, 1716
Died on December 30, 1778 (aged 62)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Constantine of Hessen-Rotenburg was Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg from 1749 until his death.

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Konstantinos Ypsilantis

First Name Konstantinos
Born on January 1, 1760
Died on June 24, 1816 (aged 56)

Constantine Ypsilantis, was the son of Alexander Ypsilanti, a key member of an important Phanariote family, Grand Dragoman of the Porte (1796–99), hospodar of Moldavia (1799–1802) and Walachia (1802–06), and a Prince through marriage to the daughter of Alexandru Callimachi.

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Konstantinos V

First Name Konstantinos
Born on November 30, 0717
Died on September 14, 0775 (aged 57)

Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the Bulgars in the Balkans. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure.

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Konstantinos Palaiologos

First Name Konstantinos
Born on November 30, 1299
Died on January 1, 1271

Constantine Palaiologos or Palaeologus was a Byzantine nobleman and the younger half-brother of the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

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Konstantinos VII

First Name Konstantinos
Born on May 18, 0905
Died on November 9, 0959 (aged 54)

Constantine VII Flavius Porphyrogenitus was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina, and the nephew of his predecessor Emperor Alexander.

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Konstantinos VIII

First Name Konstantinos
Born on January 1, 0960
Died on November 15, 1028 (aged 68)

Constantine VIII Porphyrogenitus was de jure Byzantine Emperor from 962 until his death. He was the younger son of Emperor Romanos II and Empress Theophano. He was nominal co-emperor for 63 years, successively with his father; stepfather, Nikephoros II Phokas; uncle, John I Tzimiskes; and brother, Basil II.

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