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Avicenna
Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Al-Baladhuri
ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī (; died 892 or 893) was a 9th-century Muslim historian. One of the eminent West Asian historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He travelled in Syria and Iraq, compiling information for his major works.
Sima Guang
Chinese politician, writer, and historian during the Northern Song dynasty (1019–1086)
Mashallah ibn Athari
Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer (c. 740–815 AD)
Ibn Hayyan
Al-Andalus Arab historian (987–1075)
Miroslava of Bulgaria
Bulgarian princess
Catherine of Alençon
Duchess of Bavaria
Consort Wan
Chinese imperial consort
Maria, wife of Ivan Vladislav
Bulgarian empress
Philippa de Coucy
English courtier
Magistra Hersend
Female surgeon who accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade
Miecław
Miecław (; 10th/11th century – 1047) was a cup-bearer of king Mieszko II Lambert, who in c. 1038 had proclaimed independence of the state that he ruled, from the Duchy of Poland, beginning the rebellion that lasted until his death in 1047.
Lucrezia Crivelli
lady-in-waiting; mistress of Ludovico Sforza
Servi camerae regis
Philippa Roet
English lady-in-waiting
Bonanada
Bonanada (also Bonenada) (fl. 1380), was a Spanish midwife.
Judah Leon ben Moses Mosconi
Bulgarian rabbi