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.
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- 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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