Nicetas
Nicetas or Nikitas or Niketas is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one".
The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic forms: ''Nikita, Mykyta and Mikita''
People with the name Nicetas
- Nicetes of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic
- Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania
- Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr
- Nicetas, mid-5th-century archbishop of Aquileia
- Nicetas, early 7th-century Byzantine general
- Niketas the Persian, 7th-century Byzantine officer
- Nicetas Scutariota, a Byzantine writer from Scutari
- Niketas, mid-8th-century Byzantine general
- Nicetas of Medikion, Byzantine monk and hegumenos
- Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm
- Niketas Byzantios, ninth century, Byzantine theologian, school of Photius, wrote on Islam
- Niketas Ooryphas, Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
- Niketas , Byzantine general and governor
- Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th-century Greek catenist
- Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles, see Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
- Nicetas of Novgorod, saint and Bishop of Novgorod
- Nicetas Serron, archbishop of Serres and afterwards of Heraclea, and writer. Around 11th century
- Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
- Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
- Nicetas Thessalonicensis, archbishop of Thessalonica and writer, around 1200
- Nicetas , 12th-century bishop of Constantinople
- Niketas Choniates, Byzantine historian
- Niketas Scholares, Byzantine Greek military leader
- Nicetas I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Nicetas II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- Niketas Stethatos, Byzantine mystic and theologian
- Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886
- Nikon Nizetas, cover name of WW1 spy Alfred Redl