Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. He conquered the Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire, and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The name Cyrus is a Latinized form derived from the Greek Kỹros, itself from the Old Persian Kūruš. He is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called a messiah.
