This is a list of notable people from the city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) between the third century and 1453 CE. For a list of people born before the third century CE, see Notable people from Byzantium. For a list of people born after 1453, see List of people from Istanbul. Saint Alexander (237/244–337) Saint Helena (c. 250–c. 330) Julian the Apostate (331–363), Byzantine emperor Hecebolius (Ἑκηβόλιος), sophist and rhetor Theodosius II (401–450) Proclus (412–485), Greek philosopher Zosimus (c. 490–c. 510), Byzantine historian Saint Arthelais (544–560) Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662), Christian monk, theologian, scholar and saint Eudoxia Epiphania (b. 611), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius Tarasios (c. 703–806), Patriarch of Constantinople and Christian saint Nikephoros I (c. 758–828), Patriarch of Constantinople Saint Theophanes the Confessor (758/760–817/818) Ignatius (c. 797–877), Patriarch of Constantinople Kassia (805/810–c. 867), Greek poet, composer and hymnographer Lazarus Zographos (d. 867), monk, painter and Christian saint Photios I (c. 820–893), Patriarch of Constantinople Nicholas Mystikos (852–925), Patriarch of Constantinople Alexander (c. 870–913), Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905–959), Byzantine emperor and writer Michael I Cerularius (c. 1000–1059), Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Psellos (1017/1018–after 1078), Greek writer, philosopher, politician, and historian Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor Michael VII (1050–1090), Byzantine emperor Anna Komnene (1083–1153), Greek princess and scholar John II Komnenos (1087–1143), Byzantine emperor Eustathius (c. 1110–1198), archbishop of Thessalonica Isaac Komnenos (1093–1152), brother of Emperor John II Komnenos John Tzetzes (c. 1100–1180), Byzantine poet and grammarian Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180), Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos (1156–1204), Byzantine emperor Theodore I Laskaris (1174–1221), Byzantine emperor Alexios II Komnenos (1169–1183), Byzantine emperor Maria Komnene (daughter of Manuel I) (1152–1182), daughter of the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos Nicephorus Blemmydes (1197–1272), Byzantine author Theodore Metochites (1207–1332), Greek statesman, author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts George Acropolites (1217–1282), Greek historian and statesman Michael VIII Palaiologos (1223–1282), Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (1259–1332), Byzantine emperor John VI Kantakouzenos (c. 1292–1383), Byzantine emperor Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), Archbishop of Thessalonica Andronikos III Palaiologos (1297–1341), Byzantine emperor Manuel Chrysoloras (1355–1415), Greek scholar and grammarian Gennadius II Scholarius (c. 1400–1473), philosopher, Patriarch of Constantinople Saint Laura of Constantinople (c. 1400–1453), nun, abbess, saint Constantine XI (1405–1453), Byzantine emperor and saint John Argyropoulos (1415–1487), Greek lecturer, philosopher and humanist Constantine Lascaris (1434–1501), Greek scholar and grammarian See also Constantinople Istanbul Byzantium References Constantinople Constatinople