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Hegesistratus (Ancient Greek:Ἡγησίστρατος) is an ancient Greek name. Some people with this name were:

1. A Greekdiviner forMardonius during theGreco-Persian Wars. Originally anElean, he had been captured by theSpartans and put in bonds. He escaped by cutting off a piece of his own foot and replaced it with a wooden one; however, he was captured again atZacynthus and put to death. This story is mentioned in the ninth book (chapter 37) of theHistories written byHerodotus.^[1]
2. An emissary fromSamos to the Greeks before theBattle of Mycale.^[2]
3. A despot ofSigeum.^[2]
4. AnEphesian committed a murder in his family, and fled to Delphi; on consulting the oracle what place to settle in, the answer was, that when he should come to a place where he should see the country people dancing with garlands of olive-leaves, he should settle there. He travelled and found what the oracle told him, and there built the cityElaeus.^[3]
5. Democritus was the son of Hegesistratus, though some say of Athenocritus, and others of Damasippus.^[4]
6. The governor ofMiletus, during theSiege of Miletus byAlexander the Great.

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