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15th-century Greek educators

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Basilios Bessarion

Bessarion (; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho in Neoplatonic philosophy and later served as the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. He eventually was named a cardinal and was twice considered for the papacy.

Manuel Chrysoloras

Byzantine Greek scholar, diplomat, and professor (c. 1350–1415)

Laonikos Chalkokondyles

Byzantine historian

John Argyropoulos

Greek lecturer, philosopher and humanist

Maximus the Greek

Greek monk and scholar

George of Trebizond

Greek philosopher

Greek Renaissance humanist scholar

Constantine Lascaris

Greek grammarian and scholar (1434–1501)

Dimitrios Chalkokondyles

Michael Apostolius

Greek teacher, writer and copyist (died 1478)

Greek scholar and philosopher (c. 1470-1517)

Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus

Greek scholar in Venice

George Amiroutzes

Pontic Greek scholar and philosopher (ca 1400–ca 1470)

Zacharias Calliergi

Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar

Andronicus Callistus

15th-century Greek scholar

Elia del Medigo

Sephardic philosopher

Arsenius Apostolius

Greek scholar (ca 1468-1535)

John Chortasmenos

Byzantine monk and erudite

Matthaios Kamariotis

Byzantine scholar

Leonard of Chios

Roman Catholic bishop

George Hermonymus

15th-century Greek scribe, diplomat, scholar and lecturer

Angelos Akotantos

15th-century icon-painter and hagiographer (1400–1457)