Of Alexandria

This article lists people, events and other subjects which are referred to as "of Alexandria".

of Alexandria

• Ammonius of Alexandria (3rd century AD), a Greek philosopher from Alexandria and one of the founders of Neoplatonism.
• Appian of Alexandria (c. 95 – c. 165), a Roman historian
• Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 293 – 2 May 373), also given the titles Athanasius the Great, Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, and Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian, bishop of Alexandria, Church Father, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.
• Carpocrates of Alexandria, the founder of an early Gnostic sect from the first half of the second century.
• Catherine of Alexandria (c. 282 - c. 305), a Christian saint and martyr.
• Clement of Alexandria (c.150 - c. 215), a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria
• Ctesibius of Alexandria (fl. 285–222 BC), a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt.
• Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 - 444), the Pope of Alexandria from 412 to 444.
• Cyrus of Alexandria (died about 641) a Melchite patriarch.
• Diophantus of Alexandria b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra", an Alexandrian Greek mathematician.
• Euclid of Alexandria (fl 300BC), a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry".
• Saint Eulogius of Alexandria Greek Patriarch from 580 to 608.
• Eustochius of Alexandria
• Hero of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD). an ancient Greek mathematician.
• Herophilos of Alexandria (335-280 BC), a Greek physician
• Hesychius of Alexandria, a grammarian who flourished probably in the 5th century CE.
• Hypatia of Alexandria (AD 350 and 370; died March 415), a Greek scholar.
• Isidore of Alexandria an Egyptian or Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists
• Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 70–140 CE), a Greek mathematician and astronomer.
• Nemesius of Alexandria (c. A.D. 390), a Christian philosopher, and the author of a treatise De Natura Hominis ("On Human Nature").
• Origen of Alexandria (185-254), an early Christian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Christian Church.
• Pappus of Alexandria (c. 290 – c. 350), one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity.
• Philo of Alexandria (20 BC – 50 AD), an Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
• Ptolemy of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer in 2c AD.
• Saint Macarius of Alexandria (died 395), a monk in the Nitrian Desert.
• Theon of Alexandria (ca. 335 - ca. 405 AD), a Greek scholar and mathematician.
• Theophilus of Alexandria (died 412), Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt from 385 to 412

Popes

• List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria
• Pope Abraham of Alexandria the 62nd Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church from 975 to 978.
• Pope Alexander of Alexandria (died April 17, 326) was the nineteenth Patriarch of Alexandria from 313 to his death.
• Pope Anianus of Alexandria, the Patriarch of Alexandria from 68 to 82.
• Pope Demetrius of Alexandria Patriarch of Alexandria (189–232).
• Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, the Pope of Alexandria from 248 to 265.
• Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria was Patriarch of Alexandria from 444.
• Pope Heraclas of Alexandria, the thirteenth Pope of Alexandria between 232 and 248
• Pope Peter of Alexandria (d. 311)
• Pope Theonas of Alexandria, Pope of Alexandria between 282 and 300.
• Pope Timothy I of Alexandria, Pope of Alexandria between 378 and 384

Others

• Battle of Alexandria
  • Siege of Alexandria (47 BC) – fought between Roman forces.
  • Battle of Alexandria (30 BC) – fought between Roman forces .
  • Siege of Alexandria (619) – conducted by the Sassanid Empire against a Byzantine Empire.
  • Siege of Alexandria (641) – conducted by the Rashidun army against the Byzantine capital.
  • Battle of Alexandria (1799) – fought between French and Mamaluk forces.
  • Battle of Alexandria (1801) – fought between British and French forces.
  • Siege of Alexandria (1801) – fought between British and French forces.
  • Raid on Alexandria (1941) – an attack on British shipping by Italian special forces during WWII.
• Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)
• Catechetical School of Alexandria
• Church of Alexandria
• Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• Library of Alexandria
• Lighthouse of Alexandria
• Muscat of Alexandria, a white wine grape.
• Patriarch of Alexandria
• Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  • List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria
• Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria