Heliodorus in Wikipedia

Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". People Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: * Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca. 175 BC * Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador who erected famous votive Heliodorus pillar near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India * Heliodorus a metrist in the 1st century who did work on the comedies of Aristophanes * Heliodorus a surgeon, probably from Egypt, and mentioned in the Satires of Juvenal * Heliodorus of Athens ancient author who wrote fifteen books on the Acropolis of Athens, possibly about 150 BC * Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, 2nd century secretarius ab epistolis and Prefect of Egypt * Heliodorus of Emesa, 3rd century author of the novel Aethiopica. * Heliodorus of Altino, 4th century Christian saint * Heliodorus of Alexandria 5th century Neoplatonist philosopher, and brother of Ammonius Hermiae * Heliodorus, a 6th century philosopher, author of a work entitled Commentary * Heliodorus of Catania, 8th century necromancer and witchdoctor from Catania Other * Heliodorus (fly) is a genus in the Tachinidae