Nicetas or Niketas (Νικήτας) is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic form Nikita.
Nicetas of Syracuse, (c. 400 - 335 BC), Greek philosopher
Nicetas of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic
Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania
Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr
Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th century archbishop of Aquileia
Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th century Byzantine general
Niketas the Persian, 7th century Byzantine officer
Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th century Byzantine general
Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, fl. 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos
Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, c. 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm
Niketas Ooryphas (fl. 860 – 873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
Niketas (son of Ioube) (fl. 912), Byzantine general and governor
Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th century Greek catenist
Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles, see Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
Nicetas of Novgorod (fl. 1095 – 1108), saint and Bishop of Novgorod
Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
Nicetas (Bogomil bishop) (papa Nicetas), 12th century bishop of Constantinople
Niketas Choniates (c. 1155 – c. 1215), Byzantine historian
Niketas Scholares (fl. 1341 – 1361), Byzantine Greek military leader
Nicetas I of Constantinople (fl. 766 – 780), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Nicetas II of Constantinople (fl. 1186 – 1189), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Niketas Stethatos (Nicetas Pectoratus, c. 1005 – c. 1090), Byzantine mystic and theologian
Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886
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