# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hesychius-of-alexandria
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:47:45.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hesychius-of-alexandria"
name: "Hesychius of Alexandria"
slug: "hesychius-of-alexandria"
description: "Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian who, probably in the 5th or 6th century AD, compiled the richest lexicon of unusual and obscure Greek words that has survived, probably by absorbing the works of earlier lexicographers."
tagline: "5th/6th century Greek philologist and lexicographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Hesychius_OP.jpg/330px-Hesychius_OP.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "450"
deathDate: "500"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.78776533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Hesykios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "هيسيخيوس السكندري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiqui_d'Alexandria"
    title: "Hesiqui d'Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychios_von_Alexandria"
    title: "Hesychios von Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97%CF%83%CF%8D%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%82"
    title: "Ησύχιος ο Αλεξανδρεύς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria"
    title: "Hesychius of Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiquio_de_Alejandr%C3%ADa"
    title: "Hesiquio de Alejandría"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AE%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87"
    title: "هسیخیوس اسکندریه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9sychios_d'Alexandrie"
    title: "Hésychios d'Alexandrie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiquio_de_Alexandr%C3%ADa"
    title: "Hesiquio de Alexandría"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesikhios_dari_Iskandariyah"
    title: "Hesikhios dari Iskandariyah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esichio_di_Alessandria"
    title: "Esichio di Alessandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychius_Alexandrinus"
    title: "Hesychius Alexandrinus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hes%C3%ADquio_de_Alexandria"
    title: "Hesíquio de Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychius_van_Alexandri%C3%AB"
    title: "Hesychius van Alexandrië"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesykhios_fra_Alexandria"
    title: "Hesykhios fra Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezychiusz_z_Aleksandrii"
    title: "Hezychiusz z Aleksandrii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hes%C3%ADquio_de_Alexandria"
    title: "Hesíquio de Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Гесихий Александрийский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesihije_iz_Aleksandrije"
    title: "Hesihije iz Aleksandrije"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хесихије из Александрије"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump