Qu Yuan
c. 340–278 BCE
Chinese poet and minister, remembered at the Dragon Boat Festival.
- Known as
- Poet
- Category
- Writers
- Born
- c. 340 BCE, Zigui
- Died
- 278 BCE, Miluo Jiang
Alive at the same time as Qu Yuan
- Chanakya c. 375–c. 283 BCE, political thinker
- Mencius c. 372–c. 289 BCE, philosopher
- Theophrastus c. 371–c. 287 BCE, philosopher
- Zhuang Zhou c. 369–c. 286 BCE, philosopher
- Ptolemy I Soter 367–282 BCE, pharaoh
- Seleucus I Nicator c. 358–281 BCE, king
- Pytheas c. 350–c. 285 BCE, explorer
- Epicurus 341–270 BCE, philosopher
- Chandragupta Maurya c. 340–c. 297 BCE, emperor
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–c. 262 BCE, philosopher
- Euclid c. 325–c. 270 BCE, mathematician
- Pyrrhus of Epirus c. 319–272 BCE, king
Portrait: Chen Hongshou, Public domain.
