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Vissarion (Greek: Βησσαρίων, Russian: Виссарион) οr Visarion (Serbian Cyrillic: Висарион) is a Greek male name, which may refer to:

Given name

• Saint Bessarion of Egypt, also Bessarion the Great or Passarion, Egyptian anchorite, thaumaturge and abbot, pupil of Saint Anthony the Great
• Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Catholic cardinal and Latin patriarch of Constantinople
• Visarion, Metropolitan of Herzegovina (s. 1590–1602)
• Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848), Russian literary critic
• Visarion Ljubiša (1823–1884), Metropolitan of Montenegro (s. 1882–84)
• Vissarion Dzhugashvili (1849–1909), father of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
• Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), born as Victor Puiu, Romanian metropolitan bishop
• Visarion Xhuvani (1890–1965), Primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania (s. 1929–37)
• Vissarion Lominadze (1897–1935), Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), Soviet Russian composer
• Vissarion Korkoliacos (1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monk
• Vissarion (born 1961 as Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop), Russian mystic

Surname

• I. C. Vissarion (1879–1951), Romanian writer

• Given names
• Greek masculine given names
• Masculine given names