Ancient courtiers

Decimus Magnus Ausonius (; ) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the River Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of meter.

thumb|right|Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem, illustration by Adolf Hult, 1919 Nehemiah (; ) is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period as the governor of Yehud Medinata, the autonomous province of Judea within the Achaemenid Empire, under Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC).

Tappūtī-Bēlet-Ekallim () is one of the world's first recorded chemists. She was a perfumer active in Assur during the reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I. As mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC, she used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam, which after adding water and other solvents were distilled and filtered several times.

courtier to Roman emperor Nero

servant to Cleopatra

Leoparda (4th century, Byzantium) was a purported gynecologist who served in the court of Gratian (359–383).

goth-Roman rhetorician, philosopher and educator

ancient Egyptian nurse, mother-in-law of Thutmose III