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This is a list of notable Macedonians or people of Macedonian descent sorted by occupation and year of birth, regardless of any political, territorial or other divisions, historical or modern. Academia
The Macedonians (Ancient Greek: ... stems from the Ancient Greek adjective μακεδνός (makednós), meaning "tall, ... In his A History of Macedonia, ...
Craterus (historian) (3rd century BC) anthologist, compiler of historical documents relative to the history of Attica; Oikiades (son of Nikandros) from Cassandreia Tragoedus winner in Soteria (festival) 272 BC [11] Ptolemy IV Philopator, wrote a tragedy entitled Adonis, and presumably played the lead. Hermagoras of Amphipolis (c. 225 BC), stoic ...
The history of Macedonians has been shaped by population shifts and political developments in the southern Balkans, especially within the region of Macedonia.The ideas of separate Macedonian identity grew in significance after the First World War, both in Vardar and among the left-leaning diaspora in Bulgaria, and were endorsed by the Comintern.
The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, who share a cultural and historical "Orthodox Byzantine–Slavic heritage" with their neighbours. About two-thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in North Macedonia; there are also communities in a number of other countries.
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).
Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ ˈ m æ s ɪ d ɒ n / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [6] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [7]
There are several lists of Macedonians, people who live or lived in the region of Macedonia: List of Macedonians (ethnic group) List of Macedonians (Greek) List of Macedonian Bulgarians; List of Macedonian Turks; List of ancient Macedonians; List of Macedonian Americans