ambitions or conduct which are held to be courtesan-like. Because of this, only professional courtesans should be listed. 17th century and before Amrapali (5th century BC), nagarvadhu-courtesan of Vaishali, following the Buddha's teachings she became an arahant. Anarkali (17th-century) courtesan of Salim (later Mughal emperor Jahangir) Arib al-Ma'muniyya (, CE 797-890), qiyan-courtesan Chen Yuanyuan (1624–1681), Chinese Yiji-courtesan, one of the famous Eight Beauties of Qinhuai. Diaochan (born 169 AD), the lover of warlord Dong Zhuo and warrior Lü Bu during the Chinese Three Kingdoms Faḍl al-Shāʻirah (, d. 871 CE), qiyan-courtesan Hwang Jini (fl. 1550): legendary gisaeng- courtesan of the Joseon Dynasty ʽInān (, d. 841), qiyan-courtesan Imperia Cognati (1486-1512), courtesan of Renaissance Rome, referred to as the "first courtesan" in Europe Kanhopatra (15th-century) Indian Marathi saint-poet and courtesan Lais of Corinth (5th century BC), hetaira-courtesan Lais of Hyccara (killed 340 BC), hetaira-courtesan Li Shishi (1062-1127), Chinese courtesan, regularly employed by Emperor Huizong of Song Li Ye (d. 784), Chinese Yiji-courtesan and poet Marion Delorme (circa 1613–1650): lover of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, the Prince of Condé, and Cardinal Richelieu Ninon de l'Enclos (1615–1705): lover of the Prince of Condé and Gaspard de Coligny Phryne (4th century BC), hetaira-courtesan Praecia (fl. 73 BC), Roman courtesan Shāriyah (, -870 CE), qiyan-courtesan Su Xiaoxiao (late 5th century), Yiji-courtesan Takao II (高尾, 1640 – 1659), Japanese oiran-courtesan Thaïs (4th century BC), hetaira-courtesan Theodora (6th century) (–June 28, 548), Byzantine actress-courtesan, later wife of Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire Tullia d'Aragona (–1556): top courtesan in several Italian cities, and published poet Veronica Franco (1546–1591): a Venetian cortigiana onesta courtesan who was once lover to King Henry III of France and was depicted in the movie Dangerous Beauty Volumnia Cytheris (1st century BC), Roman mimae actress and courtesan Yu Gam-dong (15th-century), Korean Gisaeng-courtesan 18th and 19th centuries Binodini Dasi (1862–1941), Indian courtesan-actress Blanche d'Antigny (1840–1874), French courtesan; Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel Nana Catherine Walters (1839–1920), British courtesan Charlotte Slottsberg (1760–1800), Swedish courtesan-ballerina, lover but not official royal mistress of Charles XIII of Sweden Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1681–1749), French courtesan and later a famous salonnière Cora Pearl (1836–1886), demimonde-courtesan ('Grande Horizontale') of the Second Empire Dorothy Jordan (1761–1816), British courtesan-actress Eliza Lynch (1835–1886), Irish courtesan, de facto wife of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay Emma Hamilton (1765–1815), English model-actress, wife of William Hamilton and mistress