Hyacinth (given name)

Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe. It may be given to males or females. The name
is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple.[1]

English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia. European equivalents include Hyacinthe
(French), Hyacinthie (German),[2] Jacek (Polish, male). The Spanish name Jacinta is closely related,
referring to the hyacinth flower. Jacinda (Greek and Spanish) may refer to either.[3]

Hyacinth may also refer to:

Men with the given name

Hyacinth Contents
Hyacinth and Protus (martyred 257–9), Men with the given name Hyacinth
Christian saints Mythology
Hyacinth (Bichurin) (1777–1853), one of the Fiction
founding fathers of Sinology
Women with the given name Hyacinth
* Hyacinth Oroko Egbebo (born 1955),vicar
and bishop Fiction
Hyacinth Gabriel Connon (1911–1978), See also
Lasallian Brother and a president of De La People with the surname Hyacinth
Salle University
References
Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche
und Camminetz (1893–1968), German Army
officer
Hyacinth Morgan (1885–1956), Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
Hyacinth of Caesarea (died 108), early Christian martyr saint
Hyacinth Tungutalum (1946–2009), Australian politician
Saint Hyacinth (1185–1257), Polish priest, canonized 1594
Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot (1834–1904), Irish lawyer

Mythology
Hyacinth (mythology), divine hero in Greek mythology

Fiction
Hyacinth Robinson, a character in the 1886 Henry James novel The Princess
Casamassima

Women with the given name Hyacinth

Hyacinth Flemmings, former cricketer
Hyacinth Mariscotti (also written Hyacintha or Giacinta), Italian saint
 Hyacinth Walters (born 1926), Jamaican former sprinter

Fiction
Hyacinth Bucket, main character in the TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth Hippo, a character from the Disney movie Fantasia (1940 film)

See also
Hyacinth (disambiguation)
Hyacinthe
Jacinta
St. Hyacinth (disambiguation)

People with the surname Hyacinth

Flora Hyacinth (born 1966), retired female track and field athlete from the United States
Virgin Islands

References
1. Thomas W. Sheehan, Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names (https://books.google.com/books?
id=96u9tHR9-TQC&pg=PA130), p. 130, at Google Books. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing,
2001. Page 130.
2. Sheehan, page 131.
3. Sheehan, Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names (https://books.google.com/books?id=96u9tHR
9-TQC&pg=PA139), p. 139, at Google Books. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001.
"Jacinta: 'The Hyacinth Flower' (Spanish) or 'The Wearer of Purple' (Portuguese) or 'The
Beautiful One' (Spanish). Jacinda: (Greek, Spanish) see Hyacinth, Jacinta."

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