Philosophers in ancient Alexandria

Hypatia (born 350–370 – March 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, at that time in the province of Egypt and a major city of the Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy, and in her lifetime was renowned as a great teacher and a wise counselor. Not the only fourth century Alexandrian female mathematician, Hypatia was preceded by Pandrosion. However, Hypatia is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. She wrote a commentary on Di

Plotinus (; , Plōtînos;  – 270 CE) was a Hellenistic Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. Plotinus is regarded by modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism.

Pope of Alexandria from 328 to 373 (296–373)

Origen of Alexandria (), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described by John Anthony McGuckin as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced".

Arius (; ; 250 or 256 – 336) was a Cyrenaic presbyter and ascetic. He has been regarded as the founder of Arianism, which holds that Jesus Christ was not coeternal with God the Father, but was rather created directly by God the Father before anything else, as the true Firstborn. Arian theology and its doctrine regarding the nature of the Godhead showed a belief in radical subordinationism, a view notably disputed by 4th century figures such as Athanasius of Alexandria.

Christian theologian (c.150 – c.215)

Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called '''''', was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.

ancient Greek grammarian and historian

Hellenistic Platonist philosopher (175-242)

Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)

Byzantine philologist and philosopher (c. 490–c. 570)

4th century Alexandrian Christian theologian

5th-century Greek philosopher

Syrian/Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher (c.213–273)

Aedesia () was a philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century AD. She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias, and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself to relieving the wants of the distressed and the education of her children, Ammonius and Heliodorus. She accompanied the latter to Athens, where they went to study philosophy, and was received with great distinction by all the philosophers there, and especially by Proclus, to whom she had been betrothed by Syrianus, when she wa

Neoplatonist philosopher (c.495–570)

3rd-century BC Greek biographer and philosopher

Sotion of Alexandria (, gen.: Σωτίωνος; fl. c. 200 – 170 BC) was a Greek doxographer and biographer, and an important source for Diogenes Laërtius. None of his works survive; they are known only indirectly. His principal work, the Διαδοχή or Διαδοχαί (the Successions), was one of the first history books to have organized philosophers into schools of successive influence: e.g., the so-called Ionian School of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. It is quoted very frequently by Diogenes Laërtius, and Athenaeus. Sotion's Successions likely consisted of 23 books, and at least partly drew on th

1st century BCE Greek Stoic philosopher

1st century BC Greco-Egyptian philosopher

3rd-century BC Greek philosopher and historian

philosopher

Stoic philosopher, historian, and grammarian

3rd century Alexandrian Christian philosopher

3rd century Alexandrian Platonist philosopher

Roman philosopher

philosopher

1st century BC Greek Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian

ancient Greek philosopher

ancient Greek philosopher and astronomer

gnostic christian thinker

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

Fourth century Neoplatonist philosopher

eclectic philosopher

ancient Greek Peripatetic philosopher

Alexandrian theologian of 4th century CE