Editing Chios (section)

===Ancient===
[[File:Bupalus and Athenis.jpg|thumb|[[Bupalus]] and [[Athenis]], sons of [[Archermus]]]]

* [[Homer]] (8th century BC), poet. See History of the Pelopennesian War by Thucydides, section 3.104.5, wherein Thucydides quotes Homer's self-reference: "A blind old man of Scio's rocky isle."
* [[Glaucus of Chios]] (c. 700 BC), Greek sculptor in metal
* [[Oenopides]] (c. 490 – c. 420 BC), mathematician and geometer
* [[Ion of Chios]] (484-421 BC), tragedy writer
* [[Hippocrates of Chios]] (c. 470 – c. 410 BC), notable mathematician, geometer and astronomer
* [[Likymnios of Chios]] (5th century – 4th century BC), Greek [[sophist]] and [[dithyrambic]] poet
* [[Metrodorus of Chios]] (4th century BC), Greek philosopher
* [[Theopompus]] of Chios (378 – c. 320 BC), rhetorical historian<ref>{{cite web |author=Jona Lendering |author-link=Jona Lendering |url=https://www.livius.org/th/theopompus/theopompus.html |title=Theopompus of Chios |publisher=Livius.org |access-date=22 March 2009 |archive-date=17 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217170942/http://www.livius.org/th/theopompus/theopompus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Erasistratus]] of Chios (304–250 BC), pioneering anatomist, royal physician and founder of the ancient medical school of Alexandria, who discovered the linking between organs through the systems of veins, arteries and nerves<ref>{{cite book |author1=Arthur Bard |author2=Mitchell G. Bard |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain |url=https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu00bard|url-access=registration |year=2002 |publisher=Alpha Books |isbn=978-0-02-864310-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu00bard/page/17 17]}}</ref>
* [[Aristo of Chios]] (c. 260 BC), Stoic philosopher
* [[Claudia Metrodora]] (c. 54–68 AD), public benefactor