Vassilios or Vassileios, also transliterated Vasileios, Vasilios, Vassilis or Vasilis (), is a Greek given name, the origin of Basil. In ancient/medieval/Byzantine context, it is also transliterated as Basileios. It is directly descended from the word "King", . It descends from the Greek language.
People
Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-French writer Vassilis Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor Vasilis Avramidis, Greek footballer Vasilis Barkas, Greek footballer Vasilis Bolanos, ethnic Greek mayor of Himara, Albania Vasilios Borbokis, Greek footballer Vasilios Dikeakos, Regional Service Lead Vasilis Dimitriadis, Greek footballer Vasilis Fragkias, Greek basketball coach Vassilis Gagatsis, president of the Hellenic Football Federation Vasilis Georgiadis, Greek film director and actor Vasilis Golias, Greek footballer Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer Vassilios Iliadis, Greek judoka Vasilios Kalogeracos, Australian footballer of Greek descent Vasili Kanidiadis, Greek-Australian television personality Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer Vasilis Karras, Greek folk singer Vasilis Katsaros, Greek footballer Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player Vasilis Konstantinou, Greek footballer Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster and chess author Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer Vassilis Krommidas, Greek triathlete Vasilios Lakis, Greek footballer Vassilis Leventis, Greek politician and TV persona Vasilis Lipiridis, Greek basketball player
Vassilis Logothetidis, Greek actor Vassilis Lymberis, Greek mass murderer Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician Vasilis Michaelides, Cypriot poet Vassilis Mitilinaios, Greek footballer Vasilis N. Triantafillidis, birth name of Greek comedian Harry Klynn Vassilis Paleokostas, Greek fugitive criminal Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer Vasilis Politis (born 1963), Greek philosopher Vassilis Rapotikas, ethnic Aromanian separatist and revolutionary from Greece Vassilis Saleas, Greek musician Vassilis Simtsak, Greek basketball player Vassilios Skouris, 10th President of the European Court of Justice Vassilis Spanakis, Greek politician Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player Vassilis Steriadis, Greek poet and critic Vassilis Stravopodis, Greek footballer Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Greek musician and composer Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer Vasilios Tsiartas, Greek footballer Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek songwriter and musician Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and diplomat Vasilios Vatatzes, Greek scholar, merchant, traveler, pioneer explorer and diplomat Vasilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player Vasilios Xydas, Greek pole vaulter
Places Agios Vasileios, a Greek village in Achaea Agios Vasileios, a Greek village in Corinthia St. Vasilios Church (Massachusetts)
See also Vassiliki (given name) Basil (name)