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Hormizd (sometimes spelled Hormuzd) may refer to:
Any of the several kings of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia:
- Hormizd I of Persia (272–273)
- Hormizd II of Persia (302–310)
- Hormizd III of Persia (457–459)
- Hormizd IV of Persia (479–480)
- Hormizd V of Persia (593)
- Hormizd VI of Persia (631–632)
- Hormizd (Constantinople), third son of Hormizd II who escaped to Constantinople
- Hormizd of Sakastan, a prince
Other people with name Hormizd:
- Rabban Hormizd or Mar Hormizd, 7th century Assyrian saint
- Yohannan Hormizd (1760-1838), Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- Hormuzd Rassam (1826 – 1910), Assyrian assyriologist
People named Hormisdas or Ormisdas, the Greek form of the name:
- Pope Hormisdas
Other uses:
- Rabban Hormizd Monastery, an ancient monastery in Iraq
- Mar Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly
Hormizd ( Middle Persian; in Hormisdas, Ormisdas;) was a Sassanid Persian prince, the third son of King Hormizd II and brother-in-law of King Shapur II. Imprisoned by him, he was freed by his wife in 323 and escaped to Constantinople, where Roman Emperor Constantine I helped him and gave him a palace near the shore of the Marmara Sea This palace became an important toponym of the city: its neighborhood (where the mosque of Little Hagia Sophia still stands) was known in Byzantine times as en tois Hormisdou , meaning "near the houses of Hormisdas". The palace became later the private residence of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, before his accession to the throne.
In 363, Hormizd served against Persia in the army of the Emperor Julian (361–363); in turn, his son, of the same name, later served as proconsul ( Ammianus Marcellinus 26.8.12).