Orontes, a mythological Indian leader whom the river is supposedly named after, as told in book 17 of the Greek epic poem Dionysiaca
Orontes, a character mentioned in The Aeneid who is killed when his ship is swallowed by a whirlpool
various members of the Armenian Orontid dynasty (their name, also rendered as Orontas, Orondes, Aroandes, is the Hellenization form of an Iranian masculine name: Avestan: auruuant sometimes shortened to auruuat, Persian arvand, meaning "Of greatness, mighty"):
