Roman-era Alexandrians

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

Diophantus of Alexandria () (; ) was a Greek mathematician who was the author of the Arithmetica in thirteen books, ten of which are still extant, made up of arithmetical problems that are solved through algebraic equations.

ancient Greek mathematician and engineer

Egyptian missionary, saint depicted with a wheel

Appian of Alexandria (; ; ; ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.

Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός; ), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius, poems for Stilicho, and mythological epic.

4th century Greek mathematician

Hellenistic Platonist philosopher (175-242)

ancient Greek astronomer

4th century Alexandrian Christian theologian

ancient Greek novellist

5th/6th century Greek philologist and lexicographer

Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who, according to Clement of Alexandria, was active between 117–161 AD, and claimed to have inherited his teachings from the apostle Saint Matthias. He was a pupil of either the Simonian teacher Menander, or a disciple of Peter called Glaucias. He is believed to have written over a 24 book long commentary on the Christian Gospel as reported by Agrippa Castor (now all lost) entitled Exegetica, making him one of the earliest Gospel commentators. Origen of Alexandria informs us of a Gospel accordin

Greek mathematician and astronomer

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

2nd-century Greek grammarian

Patriarch of Constatinople

Palladas (; fl. 4th century AD) was a Greek poet, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.

2nd century AD Greek travel writer

Egyptian hermit, saint

1st century BCE Greek Stoic philosopher

1st century BC Greco-Egyptian philosopher

Egyptian monk and saint

__NOTOC__ Valerius Harpocration ( or , gen. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century AD. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus (2nd century AD); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus.

ancient Greek grammarian

Roman philosopher

2nd-century Roman-Egyptian grammarian and writer

1st century AD Greek sophist and author

5th-century Egyptian Eastern Orthodox saint

Egyptian physician

5th century Roman governor of Egypt

Classical Greek grammarian

Bathyllus () was a dancer/performer of pantomimus in Rome during the period of Augustus. Born in Alexandria, he was the favorite and lover of Maecenas.

ancient astrologer

Egyptian saint

ancient Greek grammarian

1st century AD Greek grammarian

eclectic philosopher

ancient Greek grammarian

ancient Greek Peripatetic philosopher

1st-century Roman gnostic

ancient Greek grammarian

4th-century Christian saint

Euthalius (d. 459) was a deacon of Alexandria and later Bishop of Sulca; he is chiefly known through his work on the New Testament in particular as the author of the "Euthalian Apparatus".

2nd century Greek geographer and cartographer

Alexandrian theologian of 4th century CE

ancient Olympic victor in stadion race

ancient Greek poet

ancient Greek grammarian

ancient Greek grammarian and historian