List of ancient Greeks

A

• Abronychus – Athenian commander and diplomat
• Acacius of Caesarea – bishop of Caesarea
• Acesias – physician
• Acestorides – tyrant of Syracuse
• Achaeus – general
• Achaeus of Eretria – poet
• Achermus – sculptor
• Achilles Tatius – writer
• Acron – physician
• Acrotatus I – son of King Cleomenes of Sparta
• Acrotatus II – King of Sparta, grandson of the above
• Acusilaus – scholar
• Adeimantus – Corinthian general
• Adrianus – sophist
• Aglaophon – painter
• Aedesia – female Neoplatonic philosopher
• Aedesius – philosopher
• Aegineta – modeller
• Aeimnestus – Spartan soldier
• Aelianus Tacticus – military writer
• Aelius Aristides – orator and writer
• Aeneas Tacticus – writer
• Aenesidemus – Sceptic philosopher
• Aeropus I of Macedon – king
• Aeropus II of Macedon – king
• Aesara – female Pythagorean philosopher
• Aeschines Socraticus – Socratic philosopher
• Aeschines – Athenian orator
• Aeschines – Physician
• Aeschylus – playwright
• Aesop – author of fables
• Aetion – painter
• Aetius – philosopher
• Agallis – female grammarian
• Agariste of Sicyon, daughter of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes.
• Agariste, daughter of Hippocrates, wife of Xanthippus, and mother of Pericles.
• Agasias – sculptor
• Agasicles – King of Sparta
• Agatharchides – historian and geographer
• Agatharchus – painter
• Agatharchus of Syracuse – naval commander
• Agathias – historian
• Agathinus – medicine
• Agathocles – tyrant of Syracuse
• Agathocles of Bactria – Indo-Greek king
• Agathon – tragic poet
• Agathotychus – veterinary surgeon
• Ageladas – sculptor
• Agesander – sculptor
• Agesilaus I – King of Sparta
• Agesilaus II – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis I – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis II – King of Sparta
• Agesipolis III – King of Sparta
• Agis I – King of Sparta
• Agis II – King of Sparta
• Agis III – King of Sparta
• Agis IV – King of Sparta
• Aglaonike – first female astronomer of Ancient Greece
• Agnodike – female Athenian physician and gynecologist
• Agoracritus – sculptor
• Agresphon – philologist
• Agrippa – astronomer
• Agroetas – historian
• Agyrrhius – Athenian politician c. 400 BC
• Albinus – philosopher
• Alcaeus – comic and lyric poet
• Alcaeus of Messene – Greek author of a number of epigrams
• Alcaeus of Mytilene – playwright
• Alcamenes – sculptor
• Alcetas – King of Macedon
• Alcibiades – Athenian general
• Alcidamas – sophist
• Alciphron – sophist
• Alcisthene – female painter
• Alcmaeon of Croton – physician
• Alcman – lyric poet 7th century BC
• Alcmenes – King of Sparta
• Alexander Aetolus – poet
• Alexander Balas – Seleucid king of Syria
• Alexander Cornelius – grammarian
• Alexander I of Epirus- king of Epirus
• Alexander I of Molossia
• Alexander II of Epirus – king of Epirus
• Alexander II of Molossia
• Alexander of Abonuteichos – cult leader
• Alexander of Aphrodisias – Peripatetic philosopher
• Alexander of Greece – rhetorician
• Alexander of Pherae – tyrant
• Alexander Polyhistor – writer
• Alexander the Great – King of Macedon
• Alexander IV - son of Alexander the Great and Roxana
• Alexander Helios - Son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
• Alexandrides – historian
• Alexias – physician
• Alexion – physician
• Alexis – playwright
• Alexis – sculptor, pupil of Polykleitos
• Alypius of Alexandria – music writer
• Ambryon – writer
• Ameinias of Athens - Athenian commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
• Ameinocles – Corinthian inventor of the trireme
• Ameipsias – Athenian comic poet
• Amelesagoras – writer
• Amelius – philosopher
• Amentes – surgeon
• Ammonianus – grammarian
• Ammonius Grammaticus – writer
• Ammonius Hermiae – philosopher
• Ammonius Saccas – philosopher
• Amphicrates – king of Samos
• Amphis – Middle Comedy poet
• Amynander – king of Athamania
• Amyntas of Mieza – somatophylax of Philip III of Macedon
• Anacharsis – philosopher
• Anacreon – lyric poet 6th century BC
• Anaxagoras – philosopher
• Anaxander – King of Sparta
• Anaxandra – female artist of Sicyon
• Anaxandridas I – King of Sparta
• Anaxandridas II – King of Sparta
• Anaxandrides – philosopher
• Anaxarchus – philosopher
• Anaxidamus – King of Sparta
• Anaxilas of Rhegium – tyrant
• Anaxilas – Middle Comedy poet
• Anaxilaus – physician
• Anaximander – philosopher
• Anaximenes of Lampsacus – historian
• Anaximenes of Miletus – philosopher
• Anaxippus – New Comedy poet
• Andocides – two; Athenian politician, potter
• Andreas – physician
• Andriscus – Adramyttian adventurer
• Andromachus of Cyprus – admiral of Alexander the Great
• Andron – writer
• Andronicus of Cyrrhus – astronomer
• Andronicus Rhodius – Peripatetic philosopher
• Androsthenes – navigator
• Androtion – Athenian politician and writer
• Anniceris – philosopher
• Anonymus, an opponent of Phrynichus Arabius
• Antagoras of Rhodes – writer
• Antalcidas – Spartan general
• Antenor – sculptor
• Anthemius of Tralles – architect
• Anticleides – writer
• Antidorus of Cyme – grammarian
• Antigenes – Attic poet
• Antigonus of Carystus – scholar
• Antigonus II Gonatas – King of Macedon
• Antigonus III Doson – King of Macedon
• Antigonus III of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antimachus – poet and scholar
• Antimachus I – Greco-Bactrian king
• Antinous – lover of Hadrian
• Antiochis – Seleucid queen of Cappadocia
• Antiochus of Ascalon – philosopher
• Antiochus I Soter – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus II Theos – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus III the Great – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus IV Epiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus IX Cyzicenus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus V Eupator – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VI Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VII Sidetes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus VIII Grypus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus X Eusebes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XI Ephiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XII Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Antipater I of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antipater II of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Antipater of Sidon – writer
• Antipater of Tarsus – philosopher
• Antipater of Thessalonica – epigrammatist
• Antipater of Tyre – philosopher
• Antipater – Macedonian general
• Antiphanes – playwright
• Antiphemus – one of the founders of the city of Gela
• Antiphilus – writer
• Antiphon – three; two Athenian orators, tragic poet
• Antisthenes – two; philosopher, writer
• Antonius Diogenes – writer
• Antoninus Liberalis – grammarian
• Antonius Musa - physician to Roman Emperor Augustus
• Antyllus – physician
• Anyte of Tegea – poet
• Anytos – Athenian general
• Apega of Sparta – wife of Nabis
• Apelles – painter
• Apellicon – book collector
• Apion – scholar
• Apollocrates – tyrant of Syracuse
• Apollodorus of Alexandria – physician
• Apollodorus of Athens – scholar
• Apollodorus of Carystus – New Comedy poet
• Apollodorus of Damascus – architect
• Apollodorus of Gela – New Comedy poet
• Apollodorus of Phaleron – student of Socrates
• Apollodorus of Pergamon – rhetor
• Apollodorus of Seleuceia on the Tigris – Stoic philosopher
• Apollodorus – several; painter, grammarian, comic playwright, architect
• Apollodotus I – Indo-Greek king
• Apollonius (finance minister) – finance minister of Egypt
• Apollonius Molon – rhetor

• Apollonius of Citium – physician
• Apollonius of Perga – mathematician
• Apollonius of Rhodes – writer and librarian
• Apollonius of Tyana – Neopythagorean sage
• Apollonius Sophista – scholar
• Apollonius – several; philosopher and mathematician
• Apollophanes – comedian
• Apollos – early Christian
• Appian – historian
• Apsines – Roman-era Athenian rhetorician
• Arachidamia – wealthy Spartan queen
• Araros – son of Aristophanes
• Aratus – two; scholar, statesman

• Archidameia – name of several women
• Archidamis – daughter of the Spartan King Cleadas
• Archedemus of Tarsus – Stoic philosopher
• Archedicus – New Comedy poet
• Archelaus – King of Macedon
• Archelaus – five; philosopher, Pontic army officer, phrourarch, son of Androcles, Judaean ruler
• Archermus – sculptor
• Archestratus – two; Athenian general, writer
• Archinus – Athenian politician
• Architimus – writer
• Archias – poet
• Archidamus I – King of Sparta
• Archidamus II – King of Sparta
• Archidamus III – King of Sparta
• Archidamus IV – King of Sparta
• Archidamus V – King of Sparta
• Archigenes – physician
• Archilochus – poet
• Archimedes – mathematician
• Archytas – philosopher
• Arctinus – epic poet
• Aretaeus – medical writer
• Aretaphila of Cyrene – noblewoman who deposed the tyrant Nicocrates and his co-conspirators
• Arete of Cyrene – Cyrenaic philosopher, daughter of Aristippus
• Areus I – King of Sparta
• Areus II – King of Sparta
• Argas – notably bad poet
• Argentarius – two; epigrammatist, rhetorician
• Arignote – philosopher; student and perhaps daughter of Pythagoras
• Arimneste – Aristotle's older sister
• Arion – poet
• Aristaeus – mathematician
• Aristagoras – tyrant of Miletus
• Aristander of Telmessus – soothsayer to Alexander the Great
• Aristarchus of Samos – astronomer and mathematician
• Aristarchus of Samothrace – critic and grammarian
• Aristarchus of Tegea – tragedian
• Aristeas – poet
• Aristeus – Corinthian general
• Aristias – playwright
• Aristides of Miletus – writer
• Aristides Quintilianus – writer
• Aristides – three; Athenian statesman, two painters
• Aristippus – philosopher
• Aristobulus of Cassandreia and Aristobulus of Paneas – two; historian, commentator
• Aristocles – three; Spartan general, two scholars
• Aristodemus – three; Spartan hero, Roman hero, historian
• Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum – student of Socrates
• Aristogiton – Athenian tyrannicide
• Aristolycus of Athens – athlete
• Aristomenes – two; Messenian hero, Athenian comedian
• Aristomelidas - Spartan, father of the mother of Agesilaus
• Ariston of Alexandria – philosopher
• Ariston of Ceos – philosopher
• Ariston of Chios – philosopher
• Ariston (king of Sparta) – King of Sparta
• Aristonice – Delphic oracle
• Aristonus of Aegina - sculptor
• Aristonicus of Pergamum – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Aristonicus – grammarian
• Aristonous – citharode
• Aristonymus – comedian
• Aristophanes of Byzantium – scholar
• Aristophanes – playwright
• Aristophon - several people
• Aristotle – two; philosopher, Athenian general
• Aristoxenus – philosopher and music theorist
• Arius Didymus – philosophy teacher
• Arius – Christian heretic
• Arrian – historian
• Arsinoe I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Arsinoe II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Arsinoe III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Artemidorus – three; grammarian, two travellers
• Artemisia I of Caria, queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece
• Artemisia II of Caria, queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
• Artemon – engineer
• Artemon – painter
• Artemon – rhetorician
• Artemon – sculptor
• Artemon Melopoios – Melic poet
• Artemon of Clazomenae – annalist
• Artemon of Magnesia – author
• Artemon of Miletus – author
• Artemon of Pergamon – rhetorician
• Arxilaidas – Laconian general
• Asclepiades – four scholars
• Asclepigenia – Athenian mystic and philosopher, daughter of Plutarch of Athens
• Asclepiodotus – scholar
• Asius of Samos – poet
• Asmonius – grammarian
• Aspasia – hetaera of Pericles
• Aspasius – philosopher
• Astydamas – three tragic poets
• Astyochus – Spartan general
• Athenaeus – two scholars, physician
• Athenais – prophet who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine ancestry
• Athenagoras of Athens – apologist
• Athenippus – physician
• Athenodorus – philosopher
• Athenodorus – actor
• Attalus I – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Attalus II – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Attalus III – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Autocrates – Athenian comic poet
• Autolycus of Pitane – astronomer
• Avaris – priest of Apollo
• Axiochus – Alcmaeonid aristocrat
• Axionicus – Middle Comedy poet
• Axiothea of Phlius – female student of Plato

B

• Babrius – fabulist
• Bacchylides – poet
• Basil of Caesarea – Christian saint
• Basilides – philosopher
• Bathycles of Magnesia – sculptor
• Battus – founder of Cyrene
• Berenice I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Berenice II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Berenice IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Bion
• Bion the Borysthenite
• Biton of Syracuse
• Boethus – several people, including
• *Boethus of Chalcedon – sculptor
• *Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) – Stoic philosopher
• *Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic) – Peripatetic philosopher
• Bolus – writer
• Boukris – pirate
• Brasidas – Spartan general
• Brygus – potter
• Bryson – philosopher
• Bupalus – sculptor

C

• Cadmus of Miletus – one of the first logographers
• Caecilius of Calacte – rhetorician
• Caesarion – son of Cleopatra VII, possibly by Julius Caesar
• Calamis – 2 sculptors
• Calliades – archon of Athens
• Callia – three; Athenian statesman, comic poet, nobleman
• Callias of Syracuse – historian
• Callicrates – architect
• Calicrates of Leontium – Acheaean statesman
• Callicratidas – Spartan general
• Callicratidas of Cyrene, a general
• Callicratides – Spartan general
• Callimachus (polemarch) – Athenian general
• Callimachus (sculptor) – sculptor
• Callimachus – poet
• Callinus – poet
• Calliphon – philosopher
• Callippides – runner
• Callippus – astronomer
• Callisthenes – historian
• Callisthenes (Seleucid)
• Callistratus – four; grammarian, poet, sophist, orator
• Carcinus (writer) – tragedian
• Carneades – philosopher
• Cassander – King of Macedon
• Castor of Rhodes – rhetorician
• Cebes – two philosophers
• Celsus – theologian
• Cephidorus – two; Old Comedy poet, writer
• Cephisodotus – two sculptors
• Cercidas – politician/philosopher/poet
• Cercops of Miletus – poet
• Chabrias – Athenian general
• Chaeremon – tragic poet
• Chaeremon of Alexandria – teacher
• Chaeris – writer
• Chaeron of Pellene – tyrant of Pellene
• Chamaeleon – writer
• Charax (writer) – writer
• Chares of Athens – general
• Chares of Lindos – sculptor
• Chares of Mytilene – historian
• Charidemus – Euboean soldier
• Charillus – King of Sparta
• Chariton – writer
• Charmadas – philosopher
• Charmidas – Athenian noble
• Charmus – Athenian polemarch
• Charon of Lampsacus – writer
• Charondas – lawgiver
• Cheramyes – nobleman of Samos
• Cheilonis - wife of the Spartan King Theopompus
• Chilon – Spartan ephor
• Chionides – comic poet
• Choerilus – Athenian tragic poet
• Choerilus of Iasus – epic poet
• Choerilus of Samos – epic poet
• Chremonides – Athenian statesman
• Christodorus – epic poet
• Chrysanthius – philosopher
• Chrysippus – philosopher
• Dio Chrysostom – orator
• John Chrysostom – theologian
• Cimon – Athenian statesman
• Cimon of Cleonae – painter
• Cinaethon of Lacedaemon – epic poet
• Cineas – Thessalian diplomat
• Cineas (Athenian) – fought at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
• Cinesias – Athenian poet
• Cleadas – father of Cheilonis who was the wife of the Spartan King Theopompus
• Cleandridas – Spartan statesman
• Cleanthes – philosopher
• Clearchus of Athens – comic poet
• Clearchus of Herachleia
• Clearchus of Rhegium – sculptor, teacher of Pythagoras
• Clearchus of Sparta – general, son of Rhampias
• Clearchus of Soli – author, pupil of Aristotle
• Clearidas (general) – Spartan general
• Cledonius – grammarian
• Cleidemus – atthidographer
• Cleinias – Athenian general, father of Alcibiades
• Cleisthenes – Athenian statesman
• Cleisthenes of Sicyon – tyrant of Sicyon
• Cleitarchus – historian
• Cleitus – two Macedonian nobles
• Clement of Alexandria – theologian
• Cleombrotus I – King of Sparta
• Cleomedes – astronomer
• Cleomenes I – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes II – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes III – King of Sparta
• Cleomenes (seer) – seer
• Cleomenes of Naucratis – administrator
• Cleon – Athenian statesman
• Cleon of Sicyon – tyrant
• Cleonides – writer
• Cleonymus – Spartan general
• Cleopatra I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra Thea – Seleucid queen of Syria
• Cleopatra V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra VI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Cleopatra Selene II - daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony and the last of the Ptolemy Dynasty.
• Cleophon – two; Athenian statesman, tragic poet
• Clitomachus (philosopher) – philosopher
• Clitophon – oligarchic statesman
• Cnemus – Spartan general
• Colaeus – explorer
• Colluthus – epic poet
• Colotes (sculptor) – sculptor
• Colotes of Lampsacus – philosopher
• Comeas – archon of Athens
• Conon – Athenian general
• Conon of Samos – astronomer
• Conon (mythographer) – mythographer
• Corinna – poet
• Cosmas Indicopleustes – explorer
• Crantor – philosopher
• Craterus of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Crates of Thebes – philosopher
• Crates of Mallus – grammarian and philosopher
• Crates of Olynthys – architect
• Cratesipolis – queen
• Cratippus – historian
• Cratylus – philosopher
• Creon – archon of Athens
• Cresilas – sculptor
• Critias – one of the Thirty Tyrants
• Critius – sculptor
• Crito – several
• Critolaus – general
• Croesus – king of Lydia
• Ctesias – physician and historian
• Ctesibius – scientist
• Cylon – attempted usurper in Athens
• Cynaethus – writer
• Cynegeirus – heroic soldier
• Cynisca – female Spartan athlete
• Cypselus – tyrant of Corinth

D

• Daimachus – two writers
• Daman – philosopher
• Damascius – philosopher
• Damastes – writer
• Damasias – archon of Athens
• Damocles – courtier of sword fame
• Damogeron - writer
• Damon of Athens – writer on music
• Damon of Syracuse – philosopher
• Damophilus – painter
• Damophon – sculptor
• Damoxenus (playwright) – New Comedy playwright
• Damoxenus – Boxer
• Damoxenus of Aegae - an Achaean legate
• Daphidas or Daphitas of Telmessos - grammarian
• Dares of Phrygia – writer
• Deinocrates – architect
• Deidamia of Scyros – princess
• Deidamia I of Epirus – princess
• Deidamia II of Epirus – princess
• Deinias – writer of the 4th century BC
• Deiphontes – king of Argos
• Demades – orator
• Demaratus – King of Sparta
• Demetrius – epistolographer
• Demetrius – comic playwright
• Demetrius (son of Pythonax) – companion of Alexander the Great
• Demetrius – rhetorical stylist
• Demetrius – Indo-Greek king
• Demetrius I of Bactria – Greek king of Bactria
• Demetrius I of Syria – Seleucid king of Syria
• Demetrius I Poliorcetes – King of Macedon
• Demetrius II – Indo-Greek king
• Demetrius II of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Demetrius II of Syria – Seleucid king of Syria
• Demetrius III Eucaerus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Demetrius Ixion – grammarian
• Demetrius Lacon – Epicurean philosopher
• Demetrius of Alopece – sculptor
• Demetrius of Magnesia – writer
• Demetrius of Pharos – ruler in Illyria
• Demetrius of Scepsis – grammarian and archaeologist
• Demetrius of Tarsus – grammarian
• Demetrius of Troezen – literary historian
• Demetrius Phalereus – philosopher and statesman
• Demetrius the Cynic – philosopher
• Demetrius the Fair – son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes
• Democedes – physician
• Democritus – philosopher
• Demon – writer
• Demonax – philosopher
• Demonax (lawmaker) – Arcadian lawmaker
• Demophanes – philosopher active in public life
• Demophon (seer)
• Demosthenes (general) – Athenian general
• Demosthenes – Athenian orator
• Demosthenes of Bithynia – poet
• Dercyllidas – Spartan commander
• Dexippus – historian
• Diagoras – poet
• Diagoras of Rhodes
• Dicaearchus – geographer
• Dicaeogenes – tragic poet
• Dictys Cretensis – writer
• Dido - Carthaginian Queen founder of Carthage and friend to Timaeus.
• Didymarchus – writer
• Didymus Chalcenterus – grammarian
• Didymus the Blind – theologian
• Didymus the Musician – music theorist
• Dienekes – Spartan officer
• Dinarchus – orator
• Dinocrates – architect
• Dinon – historian
• Dio Cocceianus – orator and philosopher
• Diocles – four; politician, poet, mathematician, rhetor
• Diocles of Carystus – physician
• Diocles of Magnesia – philosopher
• Diodorus of Alexandria – mathematician and astronomer
• Diodorus of Sinope – New Comedy playwright
• Diodorus Cronus – philosopher
• Diodorus Siculus – historian
• Diodotus the Stoic – Cicero's teacher
• Diodotus of Bactria – Seleucid king of Bactria
• Diodotus II – Greco-Bactrian king
• Diodotus Tryphon – Seleucid king of Syria
• Dioetas – Achaean general
• Diogenes Apolloniates – philosopher
• Diogenes Laërtius – biographer
• Diogenes of Babylon – philosopher
• Diogenes of Oenoanda – Epicurean
• Diogenes of Sinope – Cynic philosopher
• Diogenes of Tarsus – Epicurean
• Diogenianus – two; Epicurean, grammarian
• Diomedes – grammarian
• Dion – tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius Aelius – lexicographer
• Dionysius the Areopagite – Athenian convert
• Dionysius of Byzantium – writer
• Dionysius Chalcus – poet
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus – historian
• Dionysius of Heraclea – writer
• Dionysius Periegetes – geographic writer
• Dionysius of Philadelphia – writer
• Dionysius of Phocaea – Ionian general
• Dionysius of Samos – writer
• Dionysius Scytobrachion – grammarian
• Dionysius of Sinope – Middle Comedy playwright
• Dionysius of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius II – tyrant of Syracuse
• Dionysius of Thebes – poet
• Dionysius Trax or Thrax – grammarian
• Dionysius son of Calliphron – poet
• Dionysodorus – sophist
• Diophantus – mathematician
• Dios – historian
• Dioscorides – Stoic philosopher
• Dioscorides Pedanius – physician
• Diotima – female philosopher
• Diotimus – two; poet, Athenian general
• Diotogenes – Pythagorean writer
• Diphilus – comic playwright
• Dorieus – Spartan prince
• Dorissus – King of Sparta
• Dorotheus of Sidon – astrological poet
• Dorotheus – 6th-century jurist
• Dorotheus of Ascalon - writer
• Dosiadas – poet
• Dositheus – two; astronomer, grammarian
• Draco – Athenian lawmaker
• Dracon – writer
• Dropidas – father of Cleitus the Black
• Duris – Athenian potter and vase painter
• Duris – historian, tyrant of Samos
• Drusilla (daughter of Ptolemy of Mauretania) - great-granddaughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony

E

• Echecrates – philosopher
• Echestratus – King of Sparta
• Ecphantides – comic playwright
• Ecphantus – philosopher
• Eirenaeus – grammarian
• Eirene – Woman artist
• Elpinice – Athenian noblewoman and daughter of Miltiades, known for confronting Pericles twice.
• Empedocles – philosopher
• Entimus – one of the founders of the city of Gela
• Entochus – sculptor
• Epaminondas – Theban general
• Epaphroditus of Chaeronea – scholar
• Ephialtes – Athenian statesman
• Ephialtes of Trachis – traitor
• Ephippus – Middle Comedy playwright
• Ephippus – pamphleteer
• Ephorus – historian
• Epicharmus of Kos – writer
• Epicles – name of several different individuals
• Epicrates – Middle Comedy playwright
• Epictetus – philosopher
• Epictetus – Athenian potter and vasepainter
• Epicurus – philosopher
• Epigenes – two playwrights
• Epigenes, son of Antiphon, disciple of Socrates
• Epigenes of Sicyon, tragic poet
• Epilycus – writer
• Epimenides – seer
• Epinicus – comic poet
• Epiphanius of Salamis – theologian
• Epitadas – Spartan general
• Epitadeus – Spartan statesman
• Erasistratus – physician
• Eratosthenes – geographer
• Erinna – poet
• Eriphus – Middle Comedy poet
• Erucius of Cyzicus – writer
• Eryximachus – physician
• Eryxo – Queen of Cyrenaica
• Euangelus – New Comedy poet
• Euanthius – writer
• Eubulides of Miletus – philosopher
• Eubulus (statesman) – Athenian statesman
• Eubulus (playwright) – Middle Comedy playwright
• Eucleidas – King of Sparta
• Eucleides – two; philosopher, archon
• Euclid – mathematician
• Eucratides – Greco-Bactrian king
• Euctemon – astronomer
• Eudamidas I – King of Sparta
• Eudamidas II – King of Sparta
• Eudamidas III – King of Sparta
• Eudemus of Cyprus – philosopher
• Eudemus of Rhodes – philosopher
• Eudorus of Alexandria – philosopher
• Eudoxus of Cnidus – mathematician
• Eudoxus of Cyzicus – explorer
• Eudoxus of Rhodes – historian
• Euenus – poet
• Euetes – writer
• Eugammon – epic poet
• Euhemerus – mythographer
• Eumelus (poet) – Corinthian poet
• Eumenes I – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Eumenes II – Attalid king of Pergamum
• Eumenes of Cardia – secretary
• Eumenius – rhetoric teacher
• Eumolpidae – one of the families who ran the Eleusinian mysteries
• Eunapius – sophist
• Eunomus – King of Sparta
• Euphantus – writer and teacher
• Euphemus – Athenian general
• Euphorion – philosopher
• Euphorion son of Aeschylus – playwright
• Euphranor – sculptor and painter
• Euphron – New Comedy playwright
• Euphronius – potter and vasepainter
• Eupolis – Old Comedy playwright
• Eurybatus – Corcyrean general
• Eurybiades – Spartan general
• Eurycrates – King of Sparta
• Eurycratides – King of Sparta
• Eurydice of Egypt – Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, wife of Ptolemy I Soter
• Eurydice of Athens – A descendant of Miltiades and a wife of Demetrius I of Macedon
• Eurydice (wife of Antipater II of Macedon) – Princess and wife of Antipater II of Macedon
• Eurylochus – Spartan general
• Eurymedon – Athenian general
• Euripides – playwright
• Eurypon – King of Sparta
• Eurysthenes – King of Sparta
• Eusebius of Caesarea – Christian historian
• Euthydemus – sophist
• Euthydemus I – Seleucid king of Bactria
• Euthydemus II – Indo-Greek king
• Euthymides – vasepainter
• Eutychides – sculptor and painter
• Euthyphro – prophet
• Euxenides – playwright
• Evander of Pallantium - A Arcadian King of Arcadia and founder of the city Pallantium, of the Palatine Hill, which would be the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War.
• Evagoras of Salamis – rebel
• Exekias – potter and vasepainter

G

• Galen – physician
• Gastron – Spartan commander
• Gelo – tyrant of Syracuse
• George – Soldier of the Roman Army and Christian Saint
• Gaius Julius Alexion - son of Syrian king Sohaemus and Queen Consort Drusilla
• Glaphya – hetaera
• Glaucus of Chios – inventor of iron welding
• Glaucus of Rhegium – writer
• Glycon – poet
• Glycon of Athens – sculptor
• Gnathaena – courtesan
• Gorgias – two orators
• Gorgidas – Theban military leader
• Gregory of Nyssa – Christian saint
• Gryton – Boeotian potter
• Gylippus – Spartan general

H

• Habron – grammarian
• Hagnodorus – Athenian political figure
• Hagnon – Athenian colonizer
• Hagnon of Tarsus – rhetorician and philosopher
• Hagnothemis – alleged that Alexander the Great had been poisoned
• Harmodius and Aristogeiton – assassins
• Harpalus – friend of Alexander the Great
• Harpalus (son of Polemaeus) – Macedonian statesman
• Hecataeus of Abdera – historian of Egypt
• Hecataeus of Miletus – historian
• Hecatomnus – ruler in Asia
• Hecato of Rhodes – Stoic philosopher
• Hedylus – epigrammatist
• Hegemon of Thasos – parodist
• Hegesander – writer
• Hegesias of Cyrene – philosopher
• Hegesias of Magnesia – historian
• Hegesippus – Athenian statesman
• Hegesippus (poet) – New Comedy poet
• Hegesippus (epigrammatist) – epigrammatist
• Hegesipyle – mother of Cimon
• Hegesistratus – son of Pisistratus
• Hegetorides – a Thasian during the Peloponnesian War
• Heliocles – Greco-Bactrian king
• Heliodorus of Athens – author
• Heliodorus (metrist)
• Heliodorus (surgeon)
• Heliodurus – ambassador
• Hellanicus of Lesbos – logographer
• Helena - mother of Constantine I.
• Hephaestion – Companion of Alexander the Great
• Hephaistio of Thebes – astrologer
• Heracleides – tyrant of Syracuse
• Heraclides Ponticus – philosopher
• Heraclitus – philosopher
• Hermaeus – Indo-Greek king
• Hermagoras – rhetorician
• Hermesianax – poet
• Hermias (philosopher)
• Hermias of Atarneus, tyrant, pupil of Plato
• Hermippus – comic playwright
• Hermocrates – Syracusan general
• Hero of Alexandria – scientist
• Aelius Herodianus – grammarian
• Herodotus – historian
• Herophilus – physician
• Herostratus – arsonist
• Hesiod – poet
• Hesychius of Alexandria – grammarian
• Hicetas – philosopher
• Hiero I of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse
• Hiero II of Syracuse – tyrant of Syracuse
• Hierocles of Alexandria – philosopher
• Hierophon – Athenian general
• Hippalus – explorer
• Hipparchus (brother of Hippias) – tyrant of Athens
• Hipparchus – mathematician and astronomer
• Hippias (tyrant) – tyrant of Athens
• Hippias – philosopher
• Hippocleides – archon of Athens
• Hippocrates – two; physician, Athenian general
• Hippodamus – architect
• Hippodamas – Spartan general
• Hippolus – mariner
• Hipponax – poet
• Hipponicus – Athenian general
• Hipponoidas – Spartan general
• Histiaeus – tyrant of Miletus
• Homer – poet
• Hypatia of Alexandria – philosopher
• Hyperbolus – Athenian statesman
• Hypereides – orator
• Hypsicles – mathematician and astronomer
• Hypsicrates – historian
• Herippidas – Spartan general

I

• Iamblichus (writer) – novelist
• Iamblichus (philosopher) – Neoplatonist philosopher
• Iambulus – writer
• Iasus – two early kings
• Ibycus – poet
• Ictinus – architect
• Idomeneus (writer) – writer of Lampsacus
• Ion of Chios – poet
• Iophon – tragedian
• Iphicrates – Athenian general
• Irenaeus – theologian
• Isaeus – orator
• Isaeus (Syrian rhetor)
• Isagoras – archon of Athens
• Ischolaus – Spartan general
• Isidas – Spartan who attacked the Theban garrison at the Gytheio
• Isidore of Alexandria – Neoplatonist philosopher
• Isidorus of Miletus – architect
• Isigonus – writer
• Isocrates – rhetorician; Spartan general
• Istros the Callimachean
• Isyllus – poet
• Illithia – birth

J

• Jason of Pherae – Thessalian general
• Justin Martyr – Christian apologist and philosopher
• Justinian I - Byzantine Emperor

K

• Karanus of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Karkinos – painter
• Kerykes – one of the families who ran the Eleusinian mysteries
• Kleoitas – architect
• Koinos of Macedon – King of Macedon

L

• Lacedaimonius – Athenian general
• Lachares – tyrant of Athens
• Laches – Athenian aristocrat and general
• Lacritus – sophist
• Lacydes – philosopher
• Laertes – King of Ithaca, father of Odysseus
• Lagus - husband of Arsinoe of Macedon
• Lais of Corinth – hetaera
• Lais of Hyccara – hetaera
• Laïs (physician) - physician
• Lamachus – Athenian general
• Lamprocles – Athenian musician and poet
• Lamprus of Erythrae – philosopher
• Lanike – mother of Cleitus the Black
• Lasus of Hermione – poet
• Leochares – sculptor
• Leon – King of Sparta
• Leonidas I – King of Sparta
• Leonidas II – King of Sparta
• Leonida of Alexandria – astrologer and poet
• Leonnatus – Macedonian noble
• Leosthenes – Athenian general
• Leotychidas II – King of Sparta
• Leotychides – Spartan general
• Lesbonax – writer
• Lesches – epic poet
• Leucippus – philosopher
• Leucon – Old Comedy poet
• Libanius – writer
• Licymnius of Chios – poet
• Livius Andronicus – poet, dramaturg, colonist and slave
• Lobon – literary forger
• Longinus – literary critic
• Longus – writer
• Lucian – writer
• Lyco – philosopher
• Lycophron – three; poet, son of Periander, Spartan general
• Lycortas – statesman and father of Polybius
• Lycurgus of Arcadia, king
• Lycurgus of Athens, one of the ten notable orators at Athens,
• Lycurgus (of Nemea), king
• Lycurgus of Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta
• Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus
• Lycurgus, a.k.a. Lycomedes, in Homer
• Lycus – historian
• Lydiadas – Megalopolitan general
• Lygdamis of Naxos – tyrant of Naxos
• Lygdamus – poet
• Lysander – Spartan general
• Lysanias – philologist
• Lysias – orator
• Lysimachus – Macedonian general
• Lysippus – two; poet, sculptor
• Lysis – two; philosopher, actor
• Lysistratus – sculptor

M

• Machaon – Spartan general
• Machon – New Comedy poet
• Magas of Macedon – Macedonian nobleman
• Magas of Cyrene – King of Cyrenaica
• Magas of Egypt – grandson of Magas of Cyrene
• Marcellus of Side – physician and poet
• Marinus – philosopher
• Marsyas of Pella – writer
• Matris of Thebes – rhetor
• Matron of Pitane – parodist
• Maximinus Daza - last to be referred as Pharaoh of Egypt.
• Maximus of Smyrna – anatomist and philosopher
• Megacles – numerous; archon of Athens, Athenian statesman, various other Athenians
• Megacleidas – general
• Megasthenes – traveller
• Meidias – Athenian potter
• Melanippides – poet
• Melanthius – three; tragedian, painter, writer
• Melas – sculptor
• Meleager of Gadara – poet and anthologist
• Meleager of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Melesagoras of Chalcedon – writer
• Meletus – two; tragedian, son
• Melinno – poet
• Melissus of Samos – Eleatic philosopher
• Memnon of Heraclea Pontica – historian
• Memnon of Rhodes – military leader
• Menaechmus – mathematician
• Menander – playwright
• Menander I – Indo-Greek king
• Menander of Ephesus – writer
• Menander of Laodicea – writer
• Menecrates of Ephesus – poet
• Menecrates of Xanthus – historian
• Menedaius – Spartan general
• Menedemus of Eretria – poet
• Menedemus (Cynic) – Cynic philosopher
• Menelaus (sculptor) – sculptor
• Menelaus of Alexandria – mathematician
• Menestor – botanical writer
• Menexenus – student of Socrates
• Menippus – satirist
• Menippus of Pergamum – writer on geography
• Meno – student of Aristotle
• Menodotus – writer
• Menodotus of Nicomedia – medical writer
• Mentor of Rhodes – military leader
• Mesatos – tragedian
• Metagenes – Athenian comic writer
• Meton – astronomer
• Metrodorus – five:
• *Metrodorus of Chios – philosopher
• *Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) – philosopher
• *Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) – philosopher
• *Metrodorus of Scepsis – writer
• *Metrodorus of Stratonicea – philosopher
• Miciades – Corcyrean general
• Micciades – sculptor
• Micon – Athenian painter and sculptor
• Milo of Croton – athlete
• Miltiades the Younger – Athenian general
• Miltiades the Elder – political refugee and uncle of the above
• Mimnermus – poet
• Mindarus – Spartan general
• Mnasalces – writer
• Mnasippidas - general
• Mnaseas – traveller
• Mnesicles – architect
• Mnesimachus – Middle Comedy poet
• Moderatus of Gades – philosopher
• Moeris – Attic lexicographer
• Moiro – poet
• Morsimus – poet
• Moschion (tragic poet) – tragedian
• Moschion (physician) – physician
• Moschus – poet
• Musaeus of Athens – Athenian poet
• Musaeus of Ephesus – Ephesian poet
• Myia – daughter of Pythagoras
• Myron – sculptor
• Myronides – Athenian general
• Myrsilus – historian
• Myrtilus – Athenian comic poet
• Myrtis – Boeotian poet
• Myrtis – Athenian girl, whose remains were discovered in 1994–1995

N

• Saint Nicholas – Bishop of Myra, Christian saint, main inspiration of the Santa Claus
• Nabis – Spartan usurper
• Gregory Nazianzus – Bishop of Constantinople
• Nearchus – Macedonian general
• Neoptolemus of Parion – poet and critic
• Nicander – King of Sparta
• Nicarchus – poet
• Nicias – Athenian statesman
• Nicon - a pirate from Pherae
• King Nicias – Indo-Greek king
• Nicocreon – tyrant of Cyprus
• Nicomachus – mathematician and neo-Pythagorean
• Nicomachus of Thebes – painter
• Nicomedes of Sparta, commanded the army of the Peleponnesian League at the Battle of Tanagra
• Nicomedes I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
• Nicomedes II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
• Nicomedes III of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
• Nicomedes IV of Bithynia – king of Bithynia

O

• Olympias – mother of Alexander the Great
• Olympiodorus of Thebes – historian
• Onesilas of Salamis – rebel
• Onomarchus – general of the Phocians
• Onomacritus – forger
• Orestes of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Origen – theologian
• Oxylus – son of Haemon

P

• Paches - Athenian general
• Paeonius – sculptor
• Pagondas – Spartan general
• Palladas – poet
• Pamphilus – grammarian
• Pamphilus – painter
• Pamphilus of Caesarea – theologian
• Panaetius of Rhodes – philosopher
• Pantaleon – Indo-Greek king
• Parmenides – philosopher
• Parmenion – Macedonian general
• Parrhasius – painter
• Paulus Alexandrinus – astrologer
• Paulus Aegineta – physician
• Pausanias of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Pausanias of Sparta – King of Sparta
• Pausanias – traveller
• Pedanius Dioscorides – physician
• Peisander – Athenian statesman
• Peisander (oligarch)
• Peithias – leader of Corcyra
• Pelopidas – Theban statesman
• Pelops of Sparta – King of Sparta
• Perdiccas I of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Perdiccas II of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Perdiccas III of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Periander – tyrant of Corinth, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Pericles – Athenian statesman
• Persephone-the goddess of the underworld
• Perseus - Argive King
• Perseus of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Phaedo of Elis – philosopher
• Phaedrus – aristocrat
• Phaenippus – archon of Athens
• Phalaris – tyrant of Agrigentum
• Pharacidas – Spartan admiral
• Pherecydes of Athens – mythographer
• Pherecydes of Syros – philosopher
• Pheretima – Cyrenaean queen
• Phidias – sculptor
• Phidippides – legendary runner
• Philetaerus – Founder of the Attalid dynasty, king of Pergamum
• Philippides of Paiania – Athenian aristocratic oligarch
• Philonides (physician)
• Philip I Philadelphus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Philip II of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Philip II Philoromaeus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Philip III of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Philip IV of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Philip V of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Philippus of Chollidae – neighbour of Plato
• Philistus – historian
• Philitas of Cos – poet and scholar
• Philo – philosopher
• Philo of Byblos – writer
• Philolaus – philosopher
• Philotas – son of Parmenion and Alexander the Great's generals
• Philochorus – historian
• Philocles – Athenian tragic poet
• Philostephanus – a writer
• Philotis – a woman
• Philoxenios – Indo-Greek king
• Philoxenos of Eretria – painter
• Philoxenus of Leucas – glutton
• Philoxenus – poet
• Phocion – Athenian statesman
• Phocylides – poet
• Phormio – Athenian general
• Phryne – courtesan
• Phrynichus (tragic poet) – playwright
• Phrynichus (comic poet) - writer of old Attic comedy
• Phrynichus (oligarch) - Athenian general who took a leading part in establishing the oligarchy of the Four Hundred
• Pigres of Halicarnassus – poet
• Pindar – poet
• Pirrone – philosopher
• Pisistratus – tyrant of Athens
• Pittacus of Mytilene – one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Pithios – architect
• Plato – philosopher
• Pleistarchus – King of Sparta
• Pleistoanax – King of Sparta
• Plotinus – philosopher
• Plutarch – biographer
• Polemon (scholarch) – Platonist philosopher
• Polemon of Athens – Stoic philosopher
• Polemon of Laodicea – sophist
• Polybius – historian
• Polycarp – Christian saint
• Polycrates – tyrant of Samos
• Polycrete – a woman
• Polydectes – King of Sparta
• Polydorus – King of Sparta
• Polygnotus – painter
• Polykleitos – sculptor
• Polyperchon – Macedonian regent
• Porphyry – philosopher
• Posidippus – comic poet
• Posidippus – epigrammatic poet
• Posidonius – philosopher
• Pratinas – playwright
• Praxilla – poet
• Praxiteles – sculptor
• Procles – King of Sparta
• Proclus – philosopher
• Proclus of Naucratis – rhetorician
• Procopius – prominent late antique Greek scholar from Caesarea Maritima
• Prodicus – philosopher
• Protagoras – philosopher
• Proteas – Athenian general
• Prusias I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
• Prusias II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
• Prytanis – King of Sparta
• Ptolemaeus of Alorus – military leader
• Ptolemy I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy I of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Ptolemy II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy IX of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy VI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy VIII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy X of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy XI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy XII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy XIII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy XIV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
• Ptolemy – geographer
• Ptolemy Philadelphus – son of Antony and Cleopatra
• Ptolemy of Ascalon - grammarian
• Ptolemy of Mauretania - Son of Cleopatra Selene II and Juba II
• Pygmalion - sculptor
• Pyrrho – philosopher
• Pyrrhus of Epirus – king of Epirus
• Pythagoras – mathematician
• Pytheas – explorer
• Pythocles – philosopher
• Pythodorus – Athenian general

R

• Rhianus – poet and grammarian
• Rhoecus – sculptor
• Roxana - wife of Alexander the Great

S

• Sappho – poet
• Satyros – architect
• Satyros I – ruler of Bosporan Kingdom
• Satyrus the Peripatetic – philosopher and historian
• Scopas – sculptor
• Scopas of Aetolia Aetolian politician and general.
• Scylax of Caryanda – explorer
• Seleucus I Nicator – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus II Callinicus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus III Ceraunus – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus IV Philopator – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus V Philometor – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus VI Epiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes – Seleucid king of Syria
• Sextus Empiricus – philosopher
• Simmias – philosopher
• Simonides of Amorgos – poet
• Simonides of Ceos – poet
• Socrates – philosopher
• Socrates Scholasticus – Christian historian
• Socrates the Younger – Platonic philosopher
• Solon – Athens lawmaker, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
• Soos – King of Sparta
• Sopatras – philosopher
• Sophocles – two; playwright, Athenian general
• Sophytes – Indo-Greek king
• Sosicles (statesman) – Corinthian statesman
• Sosigenes – inventor of Julian calendar
• Sosthenes of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Sostratus – orator
• Spartacus – Thracian slave
• Speusippus – philosopher
• Spintharus – philosopher
• Spintharus of Corinth – architect
• Sporus of Nicaea – mathematician
• Stateira II - Persian daughter of Darius III and wife of Alexander the Great
• Stesichorus – poet
• Stesimbrotus – writer
• Sthenippus – a Laconian
• Stilpo – philosopher
• Stobaeus – biographer
• Strabo – geographer
• Strato of Lampsacus – philosopher
• Straton of Sardis – poet
• Styphon – Spartan general

T

• Teleclus – King of Sparta
• Terence – comedic playwright
• Terpander – poet and musician
• Thais – courtesan
• Thales – philosopher
• Thallus – historian/chronographer
• Theaetetus of Athens – mathematician
• Theagenes of Megara – tyrant
• Theagenes of Rhegium – writer
• Theagenes of Thebes – general who fell at the battle of Chaeronea
• Theages – pupil of Socrates
• Theano – reputedly wife of Pythagoras
• Themistius – philosopher and rhetor
• Themistocles – archon of Athens
• Themistogenes – writer of the Anabasis, presumed since Plutarch to be Xenophon
• Theocritus – poet
• Theodectes – playwright
• Theodorus of Samos – sculptor
• Theodorus of Cyrene – mathematician
• Theodorus of Gadara – rhetor
• Theodotus of Byzantium – theologian
• Theognis of Megara – poet
• Theon of Alexandria – librarian
• Theon of Smyrna – philosopher
• Aelius Theon – rhetor
• Theophilus – Athenian comic poet
• Theophrastus – philosopher
• Theopompus – three;
• *King of Sparta
• *comic poet
• * orator
• Theramenes – Athenian statesman
• Therimenes – Spartan general
• Theron of Acragas – tyrant of Agrigentum
• Thespus – actor
• Thessalus – two physicians
• Thibron – Spartan general
• Thorax of Lacedaemonia – Spartan soldier
• Thrasippus – friend of Plato
• Thrasybulus – Athenian general
• Thrasyllus – Athenian general
• Thrasyllus of Mendes - astrologer
• Thrasymachus – rhetorician
• Thrasymelidas – Spartan general
• Thucydides – Athenian statesman
• Thucydides – historian
• Ticidas – erotic poet
• Tiara - a beautiful Greek woman who befriends with Rhea Silvia.
• Tidas – tyrant of Sicyon
• Timachidas – writer
• Timaeus of Tauromenium – historian
• Timaeus of Locri – philosopher
• Timagenes – teacher
• Timanthes – painter
• Timasitheus of Trapezus - diplomat and interpreter
• Timocharis – philosopher
• Timoclea – Theban lady shown mercy by Alexander the Great; sister of Theagenes of Thebes
• Timocles – Middle Comedy poet
• Timocrates – Spartan general
• Timocreon – poet
• Timoleon – Corinthian general
• Timon of Phlius – philosopher
• Timostratus – Athenian comic poet
• Timotheus of Athens – general
• Timotheus of Miletus – poet
• Timotheus (sculptor) – sculptor
• Tisamenus – soothsayer for the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars
• Tolmides – Athenian general
• Triphiodorus or Tryphiodorus – epic poet
• Tynnichus – poet
• Tyrannion of Amisus – grammarian
• Tyrimmas of Macedon – King of Macedon
• Tyrtaeus – poet

U

• Ulysses – see Odysseus

X

• Xanthippe – wife of Socrates
• Xanthippus – two; father of Pericles, Spartan mercenary
• Xanthus of Sicily – poet
• Xenagoras – writer
• Xenarchus – Middle Comedy poet
• Xenocles – two playwrights
• Xenoclides – Spartan general
• Xenocrates – philosopher
• Xenocrates of Aphrodisias – physician
• Xenophanes – philosopher
• Xenophilus – philosopher
• Xenophon – soldier and historian
• Xenophon of Ephesus – writer

Z

• Zaleucus – lawgiver of Italian Locri
• Zeno of Citium – philosopher
• Zeno of Elea – philosopher
• Zeno of Rhodes – politician and historian
• Zeno of Sidon – philosopher
• Zenobia - Queen of Palmyra and descendant of Cleopatra VII
• Zenobius – philosopher
• Zenodorus – writer
• Zenodotus – grammarian
• Zeuxidamas – King of Sparta
• Zeuxis and Parrhasius – painters
• Zoilus – grammarian
• Zonis – orator
• Zosimas – historian