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.
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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]
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Calcidius , (4th century)[e]
Candidus Wizo , (fl. 793 – 803)[b]
Candrakirti , (born c. 600)
Cebes of Cyzicus , (2nd century)
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)
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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]
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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]
Issac Ben Solomon Israeli , (c. 850 – 950)[b] [e] [f] *
Isidore of Seville , (c. 560 – 636)[b]
Isvarakrsna , (5th century)
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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]
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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)
Adi Shankara , (788 – 820)[a] [c] [d] [e]
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] *
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Notes
'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