Orestes (given name)
Orestes or Orestis is a Greek name meaning.
Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He is noted for avenging the murder of his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus, whereafter he was pursued by the Furies and driven mad.
Equivalents in different languages include:
- Aresti – found mostly in the Basque country and the island of Sardinia
- Oreste – Italian
- Orest – Ukrainian, Polish and Russian
Given name
- Orest Banach, American soccer player
- Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist
- Orest Kindrachuk, Canadian ice hockey player
- Orest Kiprensky, Russian artist and portraitist
- Orest Lenczyk, Polish soccer manager
- Orest Levytsky, Ukrainian historian
- Orest Meleschuk, Canadian curler
- Orest Miller, Russian folklorist and academic
- Orest Onofrei, Romanian veterinarian and politician
- Orest Romashyna, Canadian ice hockey player
- Orest Somov, Ukrainian writer
- Orest Subtelny, Canadian historian
- Orest Sushko, Canadian sound mixer
- Orest Tereshchuk, Ukrainian tennis player
- Orest Zerebko, Canadian journalist and politician
- Oreste Biancoli, Italian screenwriter and film director
- Oreste Squinobal, Italian mountain climber and ski mountaineer
- Oreste Recchione, Italian painter
- Oreste Tescari, Italian rugby player
- Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus), Roman politician and associate of Attila the Hun
- Orestes (prefect), 5th-century official of Alexandria
- Orestes of Cappadocia, Christian martyr under Diocletian
- Orestes of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Orestes of Macedon, king in the 4th century BCE
- Orestes Brownson, American publisher
- Orestes Caviglia, Argentine film director and actor
- Orestes A. Crowell, American politician
- Orestes Destrade, American baseball player
- Orestes Garrison, American politician
- Orestes Junior Alves, Brazilian soccer player
- Orestes Kindelán, Cuban baseball player
- Orestes López, Cuban bandleader
- Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso, Cuban-born professional baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer
- Orestes Ojeda, Filipino actor
- Orestes Quércia, Brazilian politician
- Orestes Rodríguez Williams, Cuban sprinter and Olympic competitor
- Orestes St. John, American geologist and paleontologist
- Orestes Vilató, Cuban-American musician
- Orestis Karnezis, Greek soccer player
- Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor
- Orestis Makris, Greek actor and tenor
- Saint Orestes, Christian martyr
- Oreste Calleja, Maltese playwright