550s deaths

Greek hymnographer

thumb|Coin of Teia, merely inscribing: ("Teia the King"). Teia (died 552 or 553), also known as Teja, Theia, Thila, Thela, and Teias, was the last Ostrogothic King of Italy. He led troops during the Battle of Busta Gallorum and had noncombatant Romans slaughtered in its aftermath. In late 552/early 553, he was killed during the Battle of Mons Lactarius. Archaeological records attesting to his rule show up in coinage found in former Transalpine Gaul.

King of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia

Byzantine general

Roman aristocrat (465-554)

King of Galicia

Dubricius or Dubric (; Norman-French: Devereux; – ) was a 6th-century British ecclesiastic venerated as a saint. He was the evangelist of Ergyng () (later Archenfield, Herefordshire) and much of south-east Wales.

French bishop of Vienne

Turismod (Latin: Turismodus) was a son of the king of the Gepids Thurisind. He was killed in 551 or 552 on the battlefield by Alboin, son of the king of the Lombards Audoin.

sub-Roman Breton king

King of Connacht

Iranian saint

one of the eight Zhu guo generals of Northern Wei (Warring States period); Tang Taizu Jing huangdi (d. 551)

6th-century Irish monarch