# List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries

Philosophers born in the 1st to 10th centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:
    Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Abbo of Fleury, (c. 950 – 1004)
* Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad, (c. 935 – 1025)
* Abd al-Salam al-Jubba'i, (died 933)
* Abhinavagupta, (fl. c. 975 – 1025)
* Abū Ḥanīfa, (c. 699 – 767)
* Abu al-Hudhayl, (c. 750 – 840/850)
* Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, (787 – 886)
* Abu Said Al-Sirafi, (died 979)
* Abu Tammam, (859 – 937/947)
* Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, (c. 850 – 934)
* Adi Shankara, (c. 788 – 820)
* Aedesius, (died 355)
* Agrippa the Sceptic, (1st/2nd century)
* Albinus, (c. 130)
* Alcinous, (2nd century)
* Alcuin, (c. 740 – 804)
* Alexander of Aphrodisias, (2nd century)
* Alhazen (or Ibn al-Haytham), (965 – c. 1040)
* Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi, (died c. 982)
* Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (December 973 – May 1057 CE)
* Ambrose, (c. 340 – 397)
* Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri, (died 992)
* Ammonius Hermiae, (5th century)
* Ammonius Saccas, (3rd century)
* Anandavardhana, (820 – 890)
* Apollonius of Tyana, (2 – 98)
* Apuleius, (c. 123 – c. 180)
* Aristides, (fl. 2nd century)
* Arius, (256 – 336)
* Al-Ash'ari, (874 – 936)
* Asanga, (c. 4th century)
* Aspasius, (c. 100 – 150)
* Athanasius of Alexandria, (298 – 373)
* Augustine of Hippo, (354 – 430)
* Marcus Aurelius, (121 – 180)
* Avicenna (or Ibn Sina), (980 – 1037)

## B

* Al-Baqillani (died 1013)
* Basilides, (c. 117 – 138)
* Bede (672/3–735)
* Bhartrhari, (5th century)
* Bodhidharma, (c. 440 – 528)
* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (480 – 524 or 525)
* Buddhaghosa, (5th century)
* Burchard of Worms (c. 950 – 1025)

## C

* Calcidius, (4th century)
* Candidus Wizo, (fl. 793 – 803)
* Candrakirti, (born c. 600)
* Celsus of Alexandria, (2nd century)
* Candrakirti, (7th century)
* Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan), (127 – 200)
* Chih Tun (or Zhi Dun), (314 – 366)
* Chrysanthius, (4th century)
* Clement of Alexandria, (2nd – 3rd century)
* Cleomedes, (2nd century)
* Cyril of Alexandria, (376 – 444)

## D

* Damascius, (c. 462 – 540)
* David the Invincible, (late 6th century)
* David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas, (9th century)
* Dawud ibn Khalaf, (815/8 – 874)
* Demetrius the Cynic, (1st century)
* Dharmakirti, (c. 7th century)
* Dignaga, (c. 480 – c. 540)
* Diogenes Laërtius, (3rd century)
* Diogenes of Oenoanda, (2nd century)
* Dirar ibn 'Amr, (c. 728 – 815)
* Dunash ibn Tamim, (10th century)

## E

* Elias, (6th century)
* Epictetus, (55 – c. 135)*
* Johannes Scotus Eriugena, (c. 800 – c. 880)
* Eusebius of Caesarea, (264–339)

## F

* Al-Farabi, (870 – 950)
* Favorinus, (c. 80 – c. 150)
* Fazang (or Fa-Tsang), (643 – 712)
* Fridugisus, (9th century)
* Fulbert of Chartres, (c. 960 – 1028)

## G

* Gaius Musonius Rufus, (110 – 180)
* Galen, (131 – 201)
* Gaudapadacharya, (c. 7th century)
* Gerbert of Aurillac (or Pope Silvester II), (c. 950 – 1003)
* Gottschalk of Orbais, (c. 805 – 868)
* Pope Gregory I, (540 – 604)
* Gregory of Nyssa, (c. 335 – 398)

## H

* Han Yu, (768 – 824)
* Heiric of Auxerre, (841 – 876/7)
* Hierocles the Stoic, (2nd century)
* Himerius, (315 – 386)
* Hincmar, (806 – 882)
* Ho Yen, (190 – 249)
* Hsi K'ang, (223 – 262)
* Hunayn ibn Ishaq, (808 – 877)
* Hypatia of Alexandria, (370 – 415)

## I

* Iamblichus, (c. 245 – c. 325)
* Yahya ibn Adi, (893 – 974)
* Ibn ar-Rawandi, (c. 910)
* Ibn Furak, (c. 941 – 1015)
* Ahmad ibn Hanbal, (780–855)
* Ibn Hazm, (994 – 1069)
* Ibn al-Khammar, (942 – c. 1030)
* Ibn Masarra, (883 – 931)
* Ibn Miskawayh, (940 – 1030)
* Abd-Allāh Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, (c. 720 – c. 756)
* Ibn al-Rawandi, (died c. 910)
* Ibn al-Tayyib, (died 1043)
* Ikhwan al-Safa', (10th century)
* 'Isa ibn Zur'a, (943 – 1008)
* Isaac Ben Solomon Israeli, (c. 850 – 950)*
* Isidore of Seville, (c. 560 – 636)
* Isvarakrsna, (5th century)

## J

* Jesus of Nazareth, (4 BC – AD 30)
* Jābir ibn Hayyān, (died c. 806–816)
* Jahm bin Safwan, (died 746)
* Jayanta Bhatta, (c. 9th century)
* John of Damascus, (c. 676 – 749)
* Juan Chi, (210 – 263)
* Justinian I, (483 – 565)

## K

* Abd al-Masih ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, (9th/10th century)
* Al-Kindi, (801 – 873)*
* Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, (died c. 1021)
* Ko Hung, (4th century)
* Kūkai, (774 – 835)
* Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, (c. 7th century)
* Kundakunda, (c. 2nd century)
* Kuo Hsiang (or Guoxiang), (c. 312)

## L

* Li Ao, (722 – 841)
* Linji Yixuan (or Lin Chi), (c. 810 – 867)
* Longinus, (1st century)
* Cassius Dionysius Longinus, (213 – 273)
* Lucian, (c. 120 – c. 180)
* Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, (1st century)

## M

* Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, (fl. c. 430)
* Gaius Marius Victorinus, (4th century)
* Abu Mansur Maturidi (before 973 – c. 944)
* Al-Mawardi, (974 – 1058)
* Mazdak, (died c. 526)
* Miskawayh, (c. 932 – 1030)
* David Ibn Merwan Al-Mukammas (or Daud Ibn Marwan al-Muqammas or David ha-Bavli), (died 937)

## N

* Nagarjuna, (c. 200)
* Muhammad al-Nasafi (died 943)
* Ibrahim an-Nazzam (died 835/45)
* Nemesius of Emesa, (fl. c. 400)
* Numenius of Apamea, (2nd century)

## O

* Olympiodorus the Younger, (495 – 570)*
* Origen of Alexandria, (c. 182 – c. 251)

## P

* Pelagius, (c. 360 – c. 435)
* Peter the Iberian, (411 – 491)
* Peter of Pisa, (744 – 799)
* Joannes Philoponus, (early 6th century)
* Philostratus, (2nd – 3rd centuries)
* Photios I of Constantinople, (c. 810 – c. 893)78
* Plotinus, (died 270)
* Mestrius Plutarch of Chaeronia, (c. 45 – c. 120)
* Porphyry, (c. 232 – c. 304)
* Prabhākara, (c. 7th century)
* Proclus, (412 – 487)
* Prudentius of Troyes, (died 861)
* Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, (5th century)
* Ptolemy, (c. 85 – c. 165)

## Q

* Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, (986 – 1072)
* Qusta ibn Luqa, (died 912)

## R

* Rabanus Maurus (or Hrabanus Maurus), (c. 783 – 856)
* Ratramnus, (died c. 868)
* Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (or Rhazes), (865–925)
* Abu Hatim al-Razi, (died c. 934)
* Remigius of Auxerre, (c. 841 – 908)

## S

* Saadia Gaon, (892 – 942)
* Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi, (c. 835 – 899)
* Sedulius Scottus, (fl. 840s – 860s)
* Sengzhao, (384 – 414)
* Sextus Empiricus, (2nd/3rd century)
* Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i, (767 – 819)
* Sibawayh, (c. 760 – c. 796)
* Siddhasena Divākara, (5th century)
* Abu Sulayman Muhammad al-Sijistani, (c. 932 – c. 1000)
* Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, (10th century)
* Simplicius of Cilicia, (early 6th century)*
* Syrianus, (5th century)*

## T

* Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, (c. 930 – 1023)
* Tertullian, (c. 160 – c. 220)
* Thābit ibn Qurra, (c. 830 – 901)
* Themistius, (317 – 387)
* Theodore Abu-Qurrah, (c. 750 – c. 816)

## U

* Udayana, (c. 10th century)
* Uddyotakara, (6th century)
* Uisang, (625 – 702)
* Umāsvāti or Umasvami, (c. 2nd century)

## V

* Vācaspati Miśra (c. 9th century)
* Valentinius (or Valentinus), (c. 100 – c. 153)
* Valluvar (undated; probably c. 300 BCE to 400 CE)
* Vasubandhu, (4th century)
* Vasugupta, (860 – 925)
* Vatsyayana, (5th century)

## W

* Walafrid Strabo, (c. 808 – 849)
* Wang Bi, (226 – 249)
* Wang Ch'ung, (27–97)
* Wasil ibn Ata, (700 – 748)
* Wonchuk, (613 – 696)
* Wonhyo Daisa, (617 – 686)

## Y

* Yahya ibn 'Adi, (893 – 974)

## Z

* Zhiyi, (538 – 597)
* Zongmi, (780 – 841)