Nicetas

Nicetas or Niketas (Νικήτας) is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic form Nikita.

• Nicetas of Syracuse, (c. 400 - 335 BC), Greek philosopher
• Nicetas 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 (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th century archbishop of Aquileia
• Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th century Byzantine general
• Niketas the Persian, 7th century Byzantine officer
• Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th century Byzantine general
• Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, fl. 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos
• Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, c. 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm
• Niketas Ooryphas (fl. 860 – 873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
• Niketas (son of Ioube) (fl. 912), 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 (fl. 1095 – 1108), saint and Bishop of Novgorod
• Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
• Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
• Nicetas (Bogomil bishop) (papa Nicetas), 12th century bishop of Constantinople
• Niketas Choniates (c. 1155 – c. 1215), Byzantine historian
• Niketas Scholares (fl. 1341 – 1361), Byzantine Greek military leader
• Nicetas I of Constantinople (fl. 766 – 780), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Nicetas II of Constantinople (fl. 1186 – 1189), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Niketas Stethatos (Nicetas Pectoratus, c. 1005 – c. 1090), Byzantine mystic and theologian
• Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886