The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

In 886 AD, the Bulgarian Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet which was devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher, whose original name was Constantine

The formal definition of ' two natures ' in Christ was understood by the critics of the council at the time, and is understood by many historians and theologians today, to side with western and Antiochene Christology and to diverge from the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, who always stressed that Christ is ' one '.

" However, during the reading of Leo's Tome, three passages were challenged as being potentially Nestorian, and their orthodoxy was defended by using the writings of Cyril.

The committee unanimously decided in favor of the orthodoxy of Leo, determining that what he said was compatible with the teaching of Cyril.

A number of other bishops also entered statements to the effect that they believed that Leo's Tome was not in contradiction with the teaching of Cyril as well.

Cyril of Alexandria ( c. 376 – 444 ) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444.

Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries.

His mother remained close to her brother and under his guidance, Cyril was well educated.

Theophilus died on 15 October 412, and Cyril was made Pope or Patriarch of Alexandria on 18 October 412, against the party favouring Archdeacon Timothy.

On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.

When the Jews, with whom Cyril had clashed before, discovered the presence of Hierax, they rioted, complaining that Hierax's presence was aimed at provoking them.

This order had two aims: the first was to quell the riot, the other to mark Orestes ' authority over Cyril.

Orestes was powerless, but nonetheless rejected Cyril's gesture of offering him a Bible, which would mean that the religious authority of Cyril would require Orestes ' acquiescence in the bishop's policy.

However, the Christian population of Alexandria knew that Ammonius had been killed for his assault and not for his faith, and Cyril was obliged to remain silent about the events.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

Cyril gained an opportunity to restore Alexandria's pre-eminence over both Antioch and Constantinople when an Antiochine priest who was in Constantinople at Nestorius ' behest began to preach against calling Mary the " Mother of God ".

He has written scholarly books on Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Origen, among others.

The archbishop Cyril of Gortyn was killed and the city so thoroughly devastated it was never reoccupied.

* Hypatia or the History of a most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned and in every way accomplished lady, who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria to gratify the pride, emulation and cruelty of the archbishop commonly but undeservedly titled St Cyril ( 1720 )

* Saint Cyril of Alexandria, archbishop ( 444 )

Cultural achievements of the Polatsk period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polatsk ( 1120 – 73 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Euphrosyne ", a national symbol and treasure stolen during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turau ( 1130 – 82 ).

Cultural achievements of the medieval period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polotsk ( 1120 – 1173 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Saint Euphrosyne ," a national symbol and treasure lost during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turaw ( 1130 – 1182 ).

At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.

Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929 ) is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist.

The ballet writer Cyril Johnson described that " her bourrées were like a string of pearls ".

* Cyril Northcote Parkinson, writer and inventor of Parkinson's Law.

On 30 September 1962, Pope Cyril VI appointed him to the bishopric of Christian Education and as Dean of the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary, and renamed him Shenouda in honour of the most renowned scholar and writer in Coptic, Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite ( lived 347 / 348 – 465 / 466 ).

* Thomas Hamilton ( writer ) ( 1789 – 1842 ), Scottish writer of prose and verse ( 1827 military novel, Cyril Thornton )

* Cyril Connolly ( 1903 – 1974 )-literary critic and writer

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

In the second folk revival the most famous West country musicians were melodeon-player Bob Cann and writer, performer and broadcaster Cyril Tawney, ' The Father of the West Country Folk Revival '.

The British writer and dance historian Cyril W. Beaumont was a close friend of Cecchetti and, in 1922 he collaborated with Cecchetti to codify the training technique into a printed syllabus, The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet, which has become the foremost reference for Cecchetti method teachers worldwide.

Cyril Henry Hoskin ( 8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981 ), more popularly known as Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, was a writer who claimed to have been a lama in Tibet before spending the second part of his life in the body of a British man.

Among his contemporaries at Eton were Eric Blair ( the writer George Orwell ), Cyril Connolly, Robert Byron, Alec Douglas-Home, Ian Fleming, Brian Howard, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell, Henry Yorke ( the novelist Henry Green ).

The son of a screen writer, Cyril Campion, Gerald Campion appeared in numerous films and television programmes — mostly comedies.

* The mechanical instructor C. M. Kornbluth is named after the science fiction writer Cyril M. Kornbluth.

The writer Cyril Connolly describes Maclean at this time.

Captain Cyril Falls ( the writer of that part of the British Official History describing the Battles of Arras, Military Operations 1917 volume I ) estimated that 30 % needed to be added to German returns for comparison with the British.

The contemporary British novelist William Boyd has identified Gerhardie, along with Cyril Connolly, as key inspirations for the central character ( the writer Logan Mountstuart ) in his 2002 novel Any Human Heart.

* Detective story writer Cyril Hare was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at Westhumble in the parish in 1958 ; he is buried in the churchyard.

* Cyril Mathew ( c. 1912 – 1989 ), Sri Lankan politician and writer

Cyril Meir Scott ( 27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970 ) was an English composer, writer, and poet.

Cyril Hare, the pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark ( 4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958 ) was an English judge and crime writer.

Gill's first wife was the author Cressida Connolly, daughter of the writer Cyril Connolly.

Antony Cyril Sutton ( February 14, 1925 – June 17, 2002 ) was a British-born economist, historian, and writer.