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Several people in history have been known by the name Dionysius:
- Dionysius Exiguus, a Dacian monk who helped set the date of some Christian holidays
- Dionysius Telmaharensis, a former head of the Syrian Jacobite Church
- Dionysius Halicarnassensis, a Greek scholar of the Roman period
- Dionysius Lardner, an Irish scientific writer
- Dionysius of Syracuse, a tyrant
- Pope Dionysius
- Dionysius the Elder, a Greek mythological figure
- Dionysius the Areopagite, an obscure convert of Paul
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, now identified with a Georgian theologist Peter the Iberian (411-491), author of 'Corpus Areopagiticum'
