List of Syriacs
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The following is a list of prominent Syriacs and people of Syriac descent! [I have put the most of the articles under the same headline, I would appreciate if you could help me with the categorisation]
This page is still under construction and all help is needed, please feel free to add categories and to add names of important Syriac persons.
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[edit] Writers
- Lucian - Rhetorican, starist and most interesting he wrote about fictional things like war between planets and about travels to the moon. Lucian could be regarded as the first fictional writer.
[edit] Music
[edit] Great Church fathers
- Ephrem the Syrian -
- Babai the Great -
- Bar-Hebraeus -
- Bar Daisan -
- Nestorius -
- Jacob of Nisibis
- Diodorus of Tarsus
- Tatian
[edit] Military Commanders
[edit] Science
[edit] Inventors
- Callinicus - Invented the so called "Greek" fire
[edit] Medicine
[edit] Mathematics
[edit] Physicist
- Ahroun the physician - Father of Bar-Hebraeus
