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Al-Mas'udi
al-Masʿūdī (full name , ), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus of the Arabs". A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic and universal), geography, natural science and philosophy, his celebrated magnum opus The Meadows of Gold () combines universal history with scientific geography, social commentary and biography.
Hugh the Great
Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)

Ordoño III of León
King of León from 951 to 956
Theophylact of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople
Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
Frankish noble
Gandaraditya
Gandaraditha Chola succeeded his father Parantaka I and became the Chola king about 955. He was also a Tamil literary poet in the Thiruvisaippa Palandu. He had a son named Madurantaka Chola also known as Uttama Chola, who became Chola emperor after his cousin Sundara Chola.
Congalach Cnogba
High King of Ireland
Ruotbert von Trier
archbishop, politician, patron and reformer (died 956)
Ahmad al-Muhajir
Muslim scholar and teacher during the Islamic Golden Age
Zhao Hongyin
Chinese emperor's father
Wulfstan
archbishop of York

Fulbert of Sint-Stevens-Woluwe
bishop of Cambrai