Nicephorus of Mount Athos (1300) Hesychast monk who first wrote out the sitting posture of staring at the heart or naval during the Hesychast prayer.

Nikephoros or Nicephorus (Greek: Νικηφόρος, "Bringer of Victory") is the name of:

Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor 963-969.

Nikephoros I, Byzantine emperor 802-811.

Nikephoros III Botaniates, Byzantine emperor 1078-1081.

Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, Byzantine writer and patriarch, 758-829, author of a famous Stichometry.

Nikephoros Bryennios, Byzantine general, statesman and historian, 1062–1137

Nicephorus Gregoras, Byzantine historian, c. 1295-1360

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Greek ecclesiastical historian, c. 1320 AD.

Nikephoros Ouranos, the Byzantine strategos of Antiocheia from 999 to circa 1010

Nikiforos, a municipality in Greece

Patriarch Nicephorus of Alexandria, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1639 and 1645.