People by era
People Who Lived 1 to 500 CE
27 people from 1 to 500 ce on Credible Theories, oldest first, each with a sourced profile.
Legendary and scriptural figuresBefore 1000 BCE1000 to 500 BCE500 BCE to 1 CE1 to 500 CE500 to 1000 CE1000 to 15001500 to 1800The 1800s1900 to 19501950 to today
VespasianRoman emperor, founder of the Flavian dynastyr. 69–79 CEFlavius JosephusJewish priest, general and historian of the 1st centuryc. 37–100 CERabbi AkivaLeading rabbinic sage and founder of Mishnaic methodc. 40–c. 135 CEPlutarchGreek biographer and essayist; priest at Delphic. 46–after 119Apollonius of TyanaNeo-Pythagorean philosopher and wonder-workerfl. 1st c. CETacitusRoman senator and historian56–c. 120 CEPeter the ApostleGalilean fisherman, leading disciple of Jesusd. c. 64 CESuetoniusRoman biographer, author of the Lives of the Caesars69–after 122 CEElisha ben Abuyah (Aher)Rabbinic sage who became a heretic, called 'the Other'fl. early 2nd c.John of PatmosAuthor of the Book of Revelation, exiled on Patmosfl. c. 95 CEIrenaeus of LyonBishop of Lyon and opponent of the Gnosticsc. 130–c. 202Apollodorus (the Bibliotheca)Name attached to the Bibliotheca, a handbook of Greek myth1st–2nd c. CERabbi IshmaelSecond-century rabbinic sage; narrator of 3 Enochfl. c. 100–135TertullianEarly Latin Christian writer from Carthagec. 155–after 220OrigenEarly Christian theologian and biblical scholarc. 185–c. 254DeciusRoman emperor who ordered an empire-wide sacrificer. 249–251 CEYing ShaoEastern Han official and author of the Fengsu Tongyic. 144–204ManiIranian prophet, founder of Manichaeism216–274/277Eusebius of CaesareaBishop, historian and chronographer of the early churchc. 260–339Huangfu MiChinese physician and historian, compiler of an acupuncture classicc. 215–282Zhang HuaWestern Jin minister and poet, compiler of the Bowuzhi232–300Ephrem the SyrianSyriac Christian poet and theologianc. 306–373Epiphanius of SalamisBishop in Cyprus and cataloguer of heresiesc. 315–403Theodosius IIEastern Roman emperorr. 408–450 CEJacob of SerughSyriac poet and bishop of Batnanc. 451–521Justinian IByzantine (Eastern Roman) emperorr. 527–565 CECassiodorusRoman statesman under the Ostrogoths; founder of Vivariumc. 490–585 CE
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