Herod The Great

Herod The Great

male
roman empire, Jews and Judaism-related controversy, Second Temple, client king, Gospel of Matthew, Herod's Temple…koine greek, greek
Herod (Greek:), also known as Herod I or Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Judaea (ca. 74 BC – ca. 4 BC in Jerusalem). Herod is known fo...
Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

male, 61 years old
Songwriter, Folk singer, Tea for the Tillerman, Man for Peace, the first cut is the deepest, converted to Islam…Greek Cypriot, greek
Yusuf Islam (Arabic: يوسف إسلام, who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthr...

Appian

male
Alexandria, English, advocate, Procurator, Hellenistic Egyptian, Roman province…greek, ancient greek
Appian ("c." 95 – "c." 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and An...
Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

male
Bibliotheca historica, angry mob, Classical geography, Ptolemaic Egypt, Chronica, BC death…greek, ancient greek
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus...
John Of Damascus

John Of Damascus

male, deceased (749)
Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic saint, Oriental Orthodox saint, Eastern Christian, Eastern Christianity, John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας/Chrysorrhoas…greek
John of Damascus (Greek: Ιωάννης Δαμασκήνος/Ioannês Damaskinos; Arabic: Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr; Latin: "Iohannes Damascenus" or "Johannes Damascenus" al...
George Papandreou

George Papandreou

male, deceased (1968)
World War II, Economist, World War II political leader, balkan war, World War I, Prime Minister of Greece…greek
George Papandreou (18 February 1888 - 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician. He was born at Kalentzi, in Achaea in southern Greece. As a young...
Dora Bakoyannis

Dora Bakoyannis

female, 55 years old
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, greek, New Democracy politician, Pavlos Bakoyiannis, Ministry of Economic Co-ordination, Foreign Affairs Minister…Greek military junta of 1967-1974
Dora Bakoyannis (née Mitsotakis) is a Greek politician, the current Greek Foreign Affairs Minister and former Mayor of Athens. She was the first w...
Pythagoras

Pythagoras

male
agor-, BC death, Philosophy of mathematics, copernicus, from the North Aegean, Numerology…ancient greek, greek
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great...
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

male
Astrologer, craters of the Moon named after them, Astronomer, trigonometry, astrolabe, antiquity…Greek and Roman astrologer, ancient greek, Greek and Roman astronomer, greek
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...
J. I. Packer

J. I. Packer

male, 83 years old
Doctor of Philosophy, deacon, Harborne Heath, priest, corpus christi college, Corpus Christi College, Oxford…greek
James Innell Packer (born July 22, 1926 in Gloucester, England) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the Calvinistic Anglican...