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.

Contents

• 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

• See also

A

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

B

• Al-Baqillani (died 1013) ^[b]
• Basilides, (c. 117 – 138) ^[a]
• Bede (672/3–735) ^[b]
• Bhartrhari, (5th century) ^[e]
• Bodhidharma, (c. 440 – 528)
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (480 – 524 or 525) ^{[a] [c] [d] [e] [f]}
• Buddhaghosa, (5th century) ^[a]
• Burchard of Worms (c. 950 – 1025) ^[b]

C

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

D

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

E

• Elias, (6th century) ^[f]
• Epictetus, (55 – c. 135) ^{[c] [d] [e] [f]} *
• Johannes Scotus Eriugena, (c. 800 – c. 880) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f]}
• Eusebius of Caesarea, (264–339) ^[e]

F

• Al-Farabi, (870 – 950) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Favorinus, (c. 80 – c. 150)
• Fazang (or Fa-Tsang), (643 – 712) ^[e]
• Fridugisus, (9th century) ^[b]
• Fulbert of Chartres, (c. 960 – 1028) ^[b]

G

• Gaius Musonius Rufus, (110 – 180) ^[e]
• Galen, (131 – 201) ^{[a] [c] [d] [e]}
• Gaudapadacharya, (c. 7th century)
• Gerbert of Aurillac (or Pope Silvester II), (c. 950 – 1003) ^[e]
• Gottschalk of Orbais, (c. 805 – 868) ^[b]
• Pope Gregory I, (540 – 604) ^{[a] [c] [d]}
• Gregory of Nyssa, (c. 335 – 398) ^[a]

H

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

I

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

J

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

K

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

L

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

M

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

N

• Nagarjuna, (c. 200) ^{[a] [c] [d] [e]}
• Muhammad al-Nasafi (died 943) ^[b]
• Ibrahim an-Nazzam (died 835/45) ^[b]
• Nemesius of Emesa, (fl. c. 400) ^{[a] [e]}
• Numenius of Apamea, (2nd century) ^{[a] [e]}

O

• Olympiodorus the Younger, (495 – 570) ^[f] *
• Origen of Alexandria, (c. 182 – c. 251) ^{[a] [e]}

P

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

Q

• Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, (986 – 1072) ^[b]
• Qusta ibn Luqa, (died 912) ^[b]

R

• Rabanus Maurus (or Hrabanus Maurus), (c. 783 – 856) ^[b]
• Ratramnus, (died c. 868) ^[b]
• Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (or Rhazes), (865–925) ^{[a] [b] [e]}
• Abu Hatim al-Razi, (died c. 934) ^[b]
• Remigius of Auxerre, (c. 841 – 908) ^[b]

S

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

T

• Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, (c. 930 – 1023) ^{[b] [e]}
• Tertullian, (c. 160 – c. 220) ^{[a] [e]}
• Thābit ibn Qurra, (c. 830 – 901) ^[b]
• Themistius, (317 – 387) ^[e]
• Theodore Abu-Qurrah, (c. 750 – c. 816) ^[b]

U

• Udayana, (c. 10th century)
• Uddyotakara, (6th century) ^[e]
• Uisang, (625 – 702) ^[e]
• Umāsvāti or Umasvami, (c. 2nd century)

V

• Vācaspati Miśra (c. 9th century)
• Valentinius (or Valentinus), (c. 100 – c. 153) ^[a]
• Valluvar (undated; probably c. 300 BCE to 400 CE)
• Vasubandhu, (4th century) ^{[a] [e]}
• Vasugupta, (860 – 925)
• Vatsyayana, (5th century) ^[e]

W

• Walafrid Strabo, (c. 808 – 849) ^[b]
• Wang Bi, (226 – 249) ^[a]
• Wang Ch'ung, (27–97) ^{[a] [e]}
• Wasil ibn Ata, (700 – 748) ^[b]
• Wonchuk, (613 – 696) ^[e]
• Wonhyo Daisa, (617 – 686) ^[e]

Y

• Yahya ibn 'Adi, (893 – 974) ^[b]

Z

• Zhiyi, (538 – 597) ^[e]
• Zongmi, (780 – 841) ^[e]

See also

• List of philosophers
• List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
• List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 17th century
• List of philosophers born in the 18th century
• List of philosophers born in the 19th century
• List of philosophers born in the 20th century

Notes

1. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN   0-521-63722-8
2. 'Biographies of Medieval Authors', Appendix C of The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Robert Passnau, Vol. 2., Cambridge, 2010, pp.833-996. ISBN   978-0-521-76218-2
3. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN   0-19-866132-0
4. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN   0-19-926479-1
5. Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Routledge; 2000. ISBN   0-415-22364-4
6. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy