This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks . These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world.
Abronychus – Athenian commander and diplomat
Acacius of Caesarea – bishop of Caesarea
Acesias – physician[ 1]
Acestorides – tyrant of Syracuse
Achaeus – general
Achaeus of Eretria – poet
Achermus – sculptor
Achilles Tatius – writer
Acron – physician
Acrotatus I – son of King Cleomenes of Sparta
Acrotatus II – King of Sparta, grandson of the above
Acusilaus – scholar
Adeimantus – Corinthian general
Adrianus – sophist
Aglaophon – painter
Aedesia – female Neoplatonic philosopher
Aedesius – philosopher
Aegineta – modeller
Aeimnestus – Spartan soldier
Aelianus Tacticus – military writer
Aelius Aristides – orator and writer
Aeneas Tacticus – writer
Aenesidemus – Sceptic philosopher
Aeropus I of Macedon – king
Aeropus II of Macedon – king
Aesara – female Pythagorean philosopher
Aeschines Socraticus – Socratic philosopher
Aeschines – Athenian orator
Aeschines – Physician
Aeschylus – playwright
Aesop – author of fables
Aetion – painter
Aetius – philosopher
Agallis – female grammarian
Agariste of Sicyon , daughter of the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes .
Agariste, daughter of Hippocrates, wife of Xanthippus, and mother of Pericles.
Agasias – sculptor
Agasicles – King of Sparta
Agatharchides – historian and geographer
Agatharchus – painter
Agatharchus of Syracuse – naval commander
Agathias – historian
Agathinus – medicine
Agathocles – tyrant of Syracuse
Agathocles of Bactria – Indo-Greek king
Agathon – tragic poet
Agathotychus – veterinary surgeon
Ageladas – sculptor
Agesander – sculptor
Agesilaus I – King of Sparta
Agesilaus II – King of Sparta
Agesipolis I – King of Sparta
Agesipolis II – King of Sparta
Agesipolis III – King of Sparta
Agis I – King of Sparta
Agis II – King of Sparta
Agis III – King of Sparta
Agis IV – King of Sparta
Aglaonike – first female astronomer of Ancient Greece
Agnodike – female Athenian physician and gynecologist
Agoracritus – sculptor
Agresphon – philologist
Agrippa – astronomer
Agroetas – historian
Agyrrhius – Athenian politician c. 400 BC
Albinus – philosopher
Alcaeus – comic and lyric poet
Alcaeus of Messene – Greek author of a number of epigrams
Alcaeus of Mytilene – playwright
Alcamenes – sculptor
Alcetas – King of Macedon
Alcibiades – Athenian general
Alcidamas – sophist
Alciphron – sophist
Alcisthene – female painter
Alcmaeon of Croton – physician
Alcman – lyric poet 7th century BC
Alcmenes – King of Sparta
Alexander Aetolus – poet
Alexander Balas – Seleucid king of Syria
Alexander Cornelius – grammarian
Alexander I of Epirus - king of Epirus (also known as Alexander Molossus)
Alexander I of Molossia
Alexander II of Epirus – king of Epirus
Alexander II of Molossia
Alexander of Abonuteichos – cult leader
Alexander of Aphrodisias – Peripatetic philosopher
Alexander of Greece – rhetorician
Alexander of Pherae – tyrant
Alexander Polyhistor – writer
Alexander the Great – King of Macedon
Alexander IV - son of Alexander the Great and Roxana
Alexander Helios - Son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
Alexandrides – historian
Alexias – physician
Alexion – physician
Alexis – playwright
Alexis – sculptor, pupil of Polykleitos
Alypius of Alexandria – music writer
Ambryon – writer
Ameinias of Athens - Athenian commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
Ameinocles – Corinthian inventor of the trireme
Ameipsias – Athenian comic poet
Amelesagoras – writer
Amelius – philosopher
Amentes – surgeon
Ammonianus – grammarian
Ammonius Grammaticus – writer
Ammonius Hermiae – philosopher
Ammonius Saccas – philosopher
Amphicrates – king of Samos
Amphis – Middle Comedy poet
Amynander – king of Athamania
Amyntas of Mieza – somatophylax of Philip III of Macedon
Anacharsis – philosopher
Anacreon – lyric poet 6th century BC
Anaxagoras – philosopher
Anaxander – King of Sparta
Anaxandra – female artist of Sicyon
Anaxandridas I – King of Sparta
Anaxandridas II – King of Sparta
Anaxandrides – philosopher
Anaxarchus – philosopher
Anaxidamus – King of Sparta
Anaxilas of Rhegium – tyrant
Anaxilas – Middle Comedy poet
Anaxilaus – physician
Anaximander – philosopher
Anaximenes of Lampsacus – historian
Anaximenes of Miletus – philosopher
Anaxippus – New Comedy poet
Andocides – two; Athenian politician, potter
Andreas – physician
Andriscus – Adramyttian adventurer
Andromachus of Cyprus – admiral of Alexander the Great
Andron – writer
Andronicus of Cyrrhus – astronomer
Andronicus Rhodius – Peripatetic philosopher
Androsthenes – navigator
Androtion – Athenian politician and writer
Anniceris – philosopher
Anonymus (author of Antiatticista), an opponent of Phrynichus Arabius
Antagoras of Rhodes – writer
Antalcidas – Spartan general
Antenor – sculptor
Anthemius of Tralles – architect
Anticleides – writer
Antidorus of Cyme – grammarian
Antigenes – Attic poet
Antigonus of Carystus – scholar
Antigonus II Gonatas – King of Macedon
Antigonus III Doson – King of Macedon
Antigonus III of Macedon – King of Macedon
Antimachus – poet and scholar
Antimachus I – Greco-Bactrian king
Antinous – lover of Hadrian
Antiochis – Seleucid queen of Cappadocia
Antiochus of Ascalon – philosopher
Antiochus I Soter – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus II Theos – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus III the Great – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus IV Epiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus V Eupator – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus VI Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus VII Sidetes – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus VIII Grypus – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus X Eusebes – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus XI Ephiphanes – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus XII Dionysus – Seleucid king of Syria
Antiochus XIII Asiaticus – Seleucid king of Syria
Antipater I of Macedon – King of Macedon
Antipater II of Macedon – King of Macedon
Antipater of Sidon – writer
Antipater of Tarsus – philosopher
Antipater of Thessalonica – epigrammatist
Antipater of Tyre – philosopher
Antipater – Macedonian general
Antiphanes – playwright
Antiphemus – one of the founders of the city of Gela [ 2]
Antiphilus – writer
Antiphon – three; two Athenian orators, tragic poet
Antisthenes – two; philosopher, writer
Antonius Diogenes – writer
Antoninus Liberalis – grammarian
Antyllus – physician
Anyte of Tegea – poet
Anytos – Athenian general
Apega of Sparta – wife of Nabis
Apelles – painter
Apellicon – book collector
Apion – scholar
Apollocrates – tyrant of Syracuse
Apollodorus of Alexandria – physician
Apollodorus of Athens – scholar
Apollodorus of Carystus – New Comedy poet
Apollodorus of Damascus – architect
Apollodorus of Gela – New Comedy poet
Apollodorus of Phaleron – student of Socrates
Apollodorus of Pergamon – rhetor
Apollodorus of Seleuceia on the Tigris – Stoic philosopher
Apollodorus – several; painter, grammarian, comic playwright, architect
Apollodotus I – Indo-Greek king
Apollonius (finance minister) – finance minister of Egypt
Apollonius Molon – rhetor
Apollonius Mus – physician
Apollonius of Citium – physician
Apollonius of Perga – mathematician
Apollonius of Rhodes – writer and librarian
Apollonius of Tyana – Neopythagorean sage
Apollonius Sophista – scholar
Apollonius – several; philosopher and mathematician
Apollophanes – comedian
Apollos – early Christian
Appian – historian
Apsines – Roman-era Athenian rhetorician
Arachidamia – wealthy Spartan queen
Araros – son of Aristophanes
Aratus – two; scholar, statesman
Arcesilaus – four Cyrene kings, philosopher, sculptor
Archidameia – name of several women
Archidamis (Ἀρχίδαμις) – daughter of the Spartan King Cleadas
Archedemus of Tarsus – Stoic philosopher
Archedicus – New Comedy poet
Archelaus – King of Macedon
Archelaus – five; philosopher , Pontic army officer , phrourarch , son of Androcles , Judaean ruler
Archermus – sculptor
Archestratus – two; Athenian general, writer
Archinus – Athenian politician
Architimus – writer
Archias – poet
Archidamus I – King of Sparta
Archidamus II – King of Sparta
Archidamus III – King of Sparta
Archidamus IV – King of Sparta
Archidamus V – King of Sparta
Archigenes – physician
Archilochus – poet
Archimedes – mathematician
Archytas – philosopher
Arctinus – epic poet
Aretaeus – medical writer
Aretaphila of Cyrene – noblewoman who deposed the tyrant Nicocrates and his co-conspirators
Arete of Cyrene – Cyrenaic philosopher, daughter of Aristippus
Areus I – King of Sparta
Areus II – King of Sparta
Argas – notably bad poet
Argentarius – two; epigrammatist, rhetorician
Arignote – philosopher; student and perhaps daughter of Pythagoras
Arimneste – Aristotle's older sister
Arion – poet
Aristaeus – mathematician
Aristagoras – tyrant of Miletus
Aristander of Telmessus – soothsayer to Alexander the Great
Aristarchus of Samos – astronomer and mathematician
Aristarchus of Samothrace – critic and grammarian
Aristarchus of Tegea – tragedian
Aristeas – poet
Aristeus – Corinthian general
Aristias – playwright
Aristides of Miletus – writer
Aristides Quintilianus – writer
Aristides – three; Athenian statesman, two painters
Aristippus – philosopher
Aristobulus of Cassandreia and Aristobulus of Paneas – two; historian, commentator
Aristocles – three; Spartan general, two scholars
Aristodemus – three; Spartan hero, Roman hero, historian
Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum – student of Socrates
Aristogiton – Athenian tyrannicide
Aristolycus of Athens – athlete
Aristomenes – two; Messenian hero, Athenian comedian
Aristomelidas - Spartan, father of the mother of Agesilaus [ 3]
Ariston of Alexandria – philosopher
Ariston of Ceos – philosopher
Ariston of Chios – philosopher
Ariston (king of Sparta) – King of Sparta
Aristonus of Aegina - sculptor[ 4]
Aristonicus of Pergamum – Attalid king of Pergamum
Aristonicus – grammarian
Aristonous – citharode
Aristonymus – comedian
Aristophanes of Byzantium – scholar
Aristophanes – playwright
Aristophon - several people
Aristotle – two; philosopher, Athenian general
Aristoxenus – philosopher and music theorist
Arius Didymus – philosophy teacher
Arius – Christian heretic
Arrian – historian
Arsinoe I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Arsinoe II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Arsinoe III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Artemidorus – three; grammarian, two travellers
Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece
Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Artemon – engineer
Artemon – painter
Artemon – rhetorician
Artemon – sculptor
Artemon Melopoios – Melic poet
Artemon of Clazomenae – annalist
Artemon of Magnesia – author
Artemon of Miletus – author
Artemon of Pergamon – rhetorician
Arxilaidas (Ἀρξιλαΐδας) – Laconian general[ 5]
Asclepiades – four scholars
Asclepigenia – Athenian mystic and philosopher, daughter of Plutarch of Athens
Asclepiodotus – scholar
Asius of Samos – poet
Asmonius – grammarian
Aspasia – hetaera of Pericles
Aspasius – philosopher
Astydamas – three tragic poets
Astyochus – Spartan general
Athenaeus – two scholars, physician
Athenais – prophet who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine ancestry
Athenagoras of Athens – apologist
Athenippus – physician
Athenodorus – philosopher
Athenodorus – actor
Attalus I – Attalid king of Pergamum
Attalus II – Attalid king of Pergamum
Attalus III – Attalid king of Pergamum
Autocrates – Athenian comic poet
Autolycus of Pitane – astronomer
Avaris – priest of Apollo (or Abaris the Hyperborean ?)
Axiochus – Alcmaeonid aristocrat
Axionicus – Middle Comedy poet
Axiothea of Phlius – female student of Plato
Cadmus of Miletus – one of the first logographers
Caecilius of Calacte – rhetorician
Caesarion – son of Cleopatra VII, possibly by Julius Caesar
Calamis – 2 sculptors
Calliades – archon of Athens
Callia – three; Athenian statesman, comic poet, nobleman
Callias of Syracuse – historian
Callicrates – architect
Calicrates of Leontium – Acheaean statesman
Callicratidas – Spartan general
Callicratidas of Cyrene, a general[ 6]
Callicratides – Spartan general
Callimachus (polemarch) – Athenian general
Callimachus (sculptor) – sculptor
Callimachus – poet
Callinus – poet
Calliphon – philosopher
Callippides – runner
Callippus – astronomer
Callisthenes – historian
Callisthenes (Seleucid)
Callistratus – four; grammarian, poet, sophist, orator
Carcinus (writer) – tragedian
Carneades – philosopher
Cassander – King of Macedon
Castor of Rhodes – rhetorician
Cebes – two philosophers
Celsus – theologian
Cephidorus – two; Old Comedy poet, writer
Cephisodotus – two sculptors
Cercidas – politician/philosopher/poet
Cercops of Miletus – poet
Chabrias – Athenian general
Chaeremon – tragic poet
Chaeremon of Alexandria – teacher
Chaeris – writer
Chaeron of Pellene – tyrant of Pellene
Chamaeleon – writer
Charax (writer) – writer
Chares of Athens – general
Chares of Lindos – sculptor
Chares of Mytilene – historian
Charidemus – Euboean soldier
Charillus – King of Sparta
Chariton – writer
Charmadas – philosopher
Charmidas – Athenian noble
Charmus – Athenian polemarch
Charon of Lampsacus – writer
Charondas – lawgiver
Cheramyes – nobleman of Samos
Cheilonis (Χειλωνὶς) - wife of the Spartan King Theopompus [ 7]
Chilon – Spartan ephor
Chionides – comic poet
Choerilus – Athenian tragic poet
Choerilus of Iasus – epic poet
Choerilus of Samos – epic poet
Chremonides – Athenian statesman
Christodorus – epic poet
Chrysanthius – philosopher
Chrysippus – philosopher
Dio Chrysostom – orator
John Chrysostom – theologian
Cimon – Athenian statesman
Cimon of Cleonae – painter
Cinaethon of Lacedaemon – epic poet
Cineas – Thessalian diplomat
Cineas (Athenian) – fought at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
Cinesias – Athenian poet
Cleadas (Κλεάδας) – father of Cheilonis who was the wife of the Spartan King Theopompus [ 7]
Cleandridas – Spartan statesman
Cleanthes – philosopher
Clearchus of Athens – comic poet
Clearchus of Herachleia
Clearchus of Rhegium – sculptor, teacher of Pythagoras
Clearchus of Sparta – general, son of Rhampias
Clearchus of Soli – author, pupil of Aristotle
Clearidas (general) – Spartan general
Cledonius – grammarian
Cleidemus – atthidographer
Cleinias – Athenian general, father of Alcibiades
Cleisthenes – Athenian statesman
Cleisthenes of Sicyon – tyrant of Sicyon
Cleitarchus – historian
Cleitus – two Macedonian nobles
Clement of Alexandria – theologian
Cleombrotus I – King of Sparta
Cleomedes – astronomer
Cleomenes I – King of Sparta
Cleomenes II – King of Sparta
Cleomenes III – King of Sparta
Cleomenes (seer) – seer
Cleomenes of Naucratis – administrator
Cleon – Athenian statesman
Cleon of Sicyon – tyrant
Cleonides – writer
Cleonymus – Spartan general
Cleopatra I of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra II of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra III of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra IV of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra Thea – Seleucid queen of Syria
Cleopatra V of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra VI of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra Selene II - daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony and the last of the Ptolemy Dynasty.
Cleophon – two; Athenian statesman, tragic poet
Clitomachus (philosopher) – philosopher
Clitophon – oligarchic statesman
Cnemus – Spartan general
Colaeus – explorer
Colluthus – epic poet
Colotes (sculptor) – sculptor
Colotes of Lampsacus – philosopher
Comeas – archon of Athens
Conon – Athenian general
Conon of Samos – astronomer
Conon (mythographer) – mythographer
Corinna – poet
Cosmas Indicopleustes – explorer
Crantor – philosopher
Craterus of Macedon – King of Macedon
Crates of Thebes – philosopher
Crates of Mallus – grammarian and philosopher
Crates of Olynthys – architect
Cratesipolis – queen
Cratippus – historian
Cratylus – philosopher
Creon – archon of Athens
Cresilas – sculptor
Critias – one of the Thirty Tyrants
Critius – sculptor
Crito – several
Critolaus – general
Croesus – king of Lydia
Ctesias – physician and historian
Ctesibius – scientist
Cylon – attempted usurper in Athens
Cynaethus – writer
Cynegeirus – heroic soldier
Cynisca – female Spartan athlete
Cypselus – tyrant of Corinth
Lacedaimonius – Athenian general
Lachares – tyrant of Athens
Laches – Athenian aristocrat and general
Lacritus – sophist
Lacydes – philosopher
Lais of Corinth – hetaera
Lais of Hyccara – hetaera
Lamachus – Athenian general
Lamprocles – Athenian musician and poet
Lamprus of Erythrae – philosopher
Lanike – mother of Cleitus the Black
Lasus of Hermione – poet
Leochares – sculptor
Leon – King of Sparta
Leonidas I – King of Sparta
Leonidas II – King of Sparta
Leonida of Alexandria – astrologer and poet
Leonnatus – Macedonian noble
Leosthenes – Athenian general
Leotychidas II – King of Sparta
Leotychides – Spartan general
Lesbonax – writer
Lesches – epic poet
Leucippus – philosopher
Leucon – Old Comedy poet
Libanius – writer
Licymnius of Chios – poet
Livius Andronicus – poet, dramaturg, colonist and slave
Lobon – literary forger
Longinus – literary critic
Longus – writer
Lucian – writer
Lyco – philosopher
Lycophron – three; poet, son of Periander, Spartan general
Lycortas – statesman and father of Polybius
Lycurgus of Arcadia , king
Lycurgus of Athens , one of the ten notable orators at Athens, (4th century BC)
Lycurgus (of Nemea) , king
Lycurgus of Sparta , creator of constitution of Sparta
Lycurgus of Thrace , king, opponent of Dionysus
Lycurgus, a.k.a. Lycomedes , in Homer
Lycus – historian
Lydiadas – Megalopolitan general
Lygdamis of Naxos – tyrant of Naxos
Lygdamus – poet
Lysander – Spartan general
Lysanias – philologist
Lysias – orator
Lysimachus – Macedonian general
Lysippus – two; poet, sculptor
Lysis – two; philosopher, actor
Lysistratus – sculptor
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