Basilides (disambiguation)

Basilides was a Christian gnostic who taught in Alexandria from 117 to 138 AD. Basilides may also refer to:

• Basilides the Epicurean, (250 – c. 175 BC), philosopher
• Basilides of Tyre, mathematician
• Basilides (Stoic) (2nd century BC), philosopher
• Basilides and Potamiana (died c.205), Christian martyrs now venerated as saints
• Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius (died c.303), Catholic saints
• Basilides (patricius), Byzantine official c. 527–565
• Fasilides or Basilides (1603–1667), emperor of Ethiopia
• Mária Basilides, (1886–1946), Hungarian contralto singer

See also

• Gospel of Basilides, a reputed text within the New Testament apocrypha
• The Prophecy of Basilides, a 1645-1646 painting by Pietro Testa