* Cyrus, a character from the TV series Trailer Park Boys

* Cyrus ( Chrono Trigger ), a character in the video game Chrono Trigger

* Cyrus Gold, the DC Comics character Solomon Grundy ( comics )

* Cyrus Lupo, a detective character from Law & Order

* Cyrus Smith, the leading character in Jules Verne's novel Mysterious Island

* Cyrus Tolliver, a character from the TV series Deadwood

* Sergeant Cyrus, a character in the videogame Dawn of War 2

* Cyrus " The Virus " Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich

Cyrus is a principal character in The Warriors ( novel ), The Warriors ( film ), and The Warriors ( video game ), all of which are based on Anabasis.

An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called " The Big Goodbye " has holographic villain called Cyrus Redblock, played by Lawrence Tierney, whose surname is an obvious reference to Greenstreet's surname and whose character is a reference to Greenstreet's character Kasper Gutman ( The Fat Man ) in The Maltese Falcon.

In 2010, Kinnear starred as the estranged father of Miley Cyrus ' character in The Last Song.

* Cyrus Lupo, lead character in the long-running NBC legal drama, Law & Order.

* Percy Bhathena, a lower middle class parsi zoroastrian mama's boy 30, staying in a Bombay Parsi Panchayet Charity Blocks, a fictional title character ( protagonist ) created and written by Cyrus Mistry ( a brother of renowned Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry ). Published a Short Story " Percy " in Bombay Magazine and also co-written screenplay with his wife Jill Mistry in Pervez Merwanji's movie " Percy ".

* Cyrus Harding, fictional character created by Jule Verne

In the final issue-Seven Soldiers # 1-the same Unknown Man punishes another of his group-the Eighth Man, Zor-by dressing him in Cyrus Gold's clothing and leaving him for the mob to find, implying that Zor-an extremely vain character, notable for attempting several times to overthrow the Universe and for having defeated The Spectre-would later become the first Solomon Grundy.

In other modern scholarship the character is usually identified as Cyrus the Great.

Parody tributes included Punk rock ( I might be a Punk but I love ya baby ), Sherbet ( Howzat ), ABBA ( Salute to ABBA ), KISS ( KISS Army ), Boz Scaggs ( Nylon Degrees ), Billy Ray Cyrus ( Achy Breaky Heart ), and Peter Allen ( I Go to Rio ) ( Allen was present when Gunston parodied him on ABC's pop show Countdown, and didn't seem amused, although he would have been aware of the character having previously appeared on Gunston's ABC show as a guest.

* Pop singer and actress Miley Cyrus has a white shepherd named Mate ( note that she also appeared in Bolt as the owner of the title character ).

* The Disney preteen sensation of the second half of the 2000s, Hannah Montana ( character ) ( Miley Cyrus ) has often been dubbed Hurricane Hannah, most prominently in an October 18, 2007 article in Time Magazine.

He plays a villain, Cyrus, in the 2012 film Doonby, which features former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider as a mysterious stranger who comes into a small town and falls in love with the spoiled daughter of Estevez's character, the local doctor.

In this film the lead nemesis, played by Kevin Thompson, is an African-American character named Cyrus.

Walker comments that the " essential character of the Cyrus Cylinder not a general declaration of human rights or religious toleration but simply a building inscription, in the Babylonian and Assyrian tradition, commemorating Cyrus's restoration of the city of Babylon and the worship of Marduk previously neglected by Nabonidus.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

The Book of Ezra consists of ten chapters: chapters 1-6, covering the period from the Decree of Cyrus to the dedication of the Second Temple, are told in the third person ; chapters 7-10, dealing with the mission of Ezra, are told largely in the first person.

Decree of Cyrus, second version, and decree of Darius: Darius finds the decree, directs Tattenai not to disturb the Jews in their work, and exempts them from tribute and supplies everything necessary for the offerings.

It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.

A list of priests and Levites who returned in the days of Cyrus ( the first returnees from Babylon ) is presented ; Nehemiah, aided by Ezra, oversees the dedication of the walls and the rebuilt city.

Chapters 49 – 55 probably come from a slightly later period, after Babylon had fallen to Cyrus and the return to Jerusalem became a real possibility.

Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the Museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes.

* Cyrus Cylinder, from Babylon

The inscription states in detail that the rebellions, which had resulted from the deaths of Cyrus the Great and his son Cambyses II, were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death.

* Cyrus, a vampaneze from The Vampire Prince by Darren Shan

According to Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman " the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading.

Cyrus Teed, a doctor from upstate New York, proposed such a concave hollow Earth in 1869, calling his scheme " Cellular Cosmogony ".

The Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, ruled an area from Greece and Turkey to the Indus River and Central Asia during the 6th to 4th centuries BC.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

* 539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile.

Cyrus L. Day relates that, " she had never seen it in Finland, she wrote to me in 1954, but had learned about it from a Spaniard named Raphael Gaston, who called it a whip knot, and told her it was used in the mountains of Spain by muleteers and herdsmen.

Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest of all the children, because it was an established custom all over the world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence ; while Xerxes, on the other hand, urged that he was sprung from Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.

On a tablet dated from the first year of Cyrus, Cambyses is called king of Babylon, although his authority seems to have been ephemeral.

Numerous Babylonian tablets of the time date from the accession and the first year of Cambyses, when Cyrus was " king of the countries " ( i. e., of the world ).