Significant Persons
- King Arthur, legendary British king and victor over the Anglo-Saxons
- Aryabhata, Discoverer of Zero and First to propose Heliocentre Model of solar system
- Augustine of Canterbury, Roman monk, missionary, and bishop
- Belisarius, Byzantine general
- Benedict of Nursia, (480–547), Umbrian founder of Western Monasticism
- Beowulf, legendary king of the Geats
- Boethius, (c.480-525), Roman philosopher and theologian
- Bozorgmehr, Persian sage
- Cassiodorus, (c.485-c.585), Roman senator and scholar
- Clovis I, (c. 466–511), first sole King of the Franks
- Columbanus, (540–615), Irish monk and missionary
- Dayi Daoxin, (580-651), fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch
- Dazu Huike, (487-593), second Chán Buddhist Patriarch
- Gregory the Great, (c.540-604), theologian, sixty-fourth pope (590-604), and civil administrator of Rome
- Gregory of Tours (c. 538–594), Frankish bishop and historian
- Hrodgar, legendary Danish king depicted in Beowulf
- Jianzhi Sengcan, (d. 606), third Chán Buddhist Patriarch
- Jizang, (549–623), Buddhist monk and scholar, founder of the Three Treatise School
- Jordanes, Byzantine author of the Getica
- Justinian, (527–565), Byzantine Emperor
- Karaikkal Ammeiyar, one of the few females amongst the sixty three Nayanmars, is one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature
- Khosrau I of Persia, Sassanid Shah (531–579)
- Leander of Seville, (c.534-601), Spanish bishop and theologian
- Mohammad, Final Prophet of Islam, (born 570)
- Muhan Khan, Khagan of Göktürk Empire from (554 - 572) during which Sogdian influence reached its zenith
- Procopius, Byzantine historian
- Empress Suiko, Japanese empress
- Prince Shōtoku, (573–621), Japanese statesman, philosopher, and writer of a 17 article constitution
- Taliesin, Welsh poet
- Tirunavukkarasar, Indian poet (late 6th century-mid-7th century)
- Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-600/9), Venetian poet, traveler, bishop of Poitiers (c.599-600/9)
- Emperor Wen of Sui, founder and first emperor of Chinese Sui Dynasty
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