List of Pagans

This is a list of historical individuals notable for their Pagan religion, and modern individuals who self-describe as adherents of some form of Paganism or Neopaganism.

Ancient

Arabic

Pagans among the Arabic peoples

Baltic

Historic Baltic pagans:

Celtic

Pagans among the ancient Celtic peoples (Roman Gaul, Roman Britain, Ireland)

Historic Celtic pagans:

Egyptian
  • Horapollo, (5th Century) Egyptian pagan writer

Germanic

Historic Germanic pagans:

Graeco-Roman

Historic Graeco-Roman pagans:

  • Hadrian (76–138), completed the Temple of Olympian Zeus and was noted for strengthening ties between the Roman and Greek pantheons.
  • Lucian of Samosata, writer and satirist
  • Decius, Made efforts toward increasing public piety. Required sacrifices on behalf of the emperor (himself) which led to execution for those who refused, mostly non-Pagans.
  • Diocletian, Noted for his piety and conservative Pagan views. Engaged in severe persecutions and executions of Manicheans and Christians in an effort to maintain and support the Roman state religion.
  • Galerius, Strong proponent of Roman Paganism. Thought to have been the primary driver behind the Diocletian persecutions of Manicheans and Christians in defense of Roman religion.
  • Porphyry, Neo-platonist philosopher who argued strongly in favor of Roman Paganism as opposed to the rise of Christianity in his day. Also wrote many treatises on Roman Paganism and is attributed as the author of many more that are of more uncertain origin.
  • Iamblichus of Chalcis, disciple of Porphyry
  • Ammianus Marcellinus, 4th-century historian
  • Maurus Servius Honoratus, 4th-century grammarian
  • Julian (ruled 361–363), attempted to re-establish Roman paganism, initiating a "pagan revival" among a number of families of the Roman elite
  • Alypius of Antioch
  • Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (d.384)
  • Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394)
  • Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 340–c. 402), Roman senator who attempted to have the altar of Altar of Victory restored
  • Hypatia of Alexandria, neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, killed in 415 by a Christian mob
  • Nicomachus Flavianus (d. after 432)
  • Eunapius, last Hierophant of Eleusis
  • Martianus Capella, 5th-century author
  • Proclus (d. 485), Neoplatonist philosopher
  • Zosimus (5th century) Byzantine historian
  • Damascius, "the last of the Neoplatonists", (ca. 480–died after 533)
  • Gemistus Pletho (15th century) Byzantine philosopher
  • Sallustius 4th century writer who wrote a treatise called "On the Gods and the Cosmos" for Hellenic paganism

Slavic

Christianization of the Slavs took place in the 9th to 11th centuries, with a pagan reaction in Poland in the 1030s and conversion of the Polabian Slavs by the 1180s (see Wendish Crusade).

Turko-Mongolic

Modern

Baltic

Germanic

Germanic Neopagans include:

Greek

Neo-druidism
Further information: List of druids and neo-druids

Neo-druids include:

Roman

Slavic

Turko-Mongolic

Wicca

Wiccans include:

Various or unspecified

See also

References
  1. Collier, Mike (June 3, 2015). "Latvia provides EU's first "green" president - Raimonds Vējonis". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. He is married with two children and lists his religious views as “pagan” on his Facebook page.
  2. Dylan Sprouse on Twitter
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