This is a list of Huns (a Central Asian people who lived in Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD) and of people of Hunnish descent, sorted by field and name:
Military commanders
- Tuldila (fl. 458), commander in the Western Roman Empire, of Hunnish descent[1]
- Uldin (died c. 412), military leader and ruler of the Huns, who defeated the Gothic magister militum Gainas, sending his head to Arcadius as a diplomatic gift[2]
Politicians, ministers, ambassadors, religious figures
- Edeko (fl. 449), prominent Hun, Attila's deputy and his ambassador to the Byzantine Empire (in 449), probably the father of Odoacer[3]
Others
- Adamis (fl. 449), Hunnish supervisor
- Atakam (fl. 448), Hun prince and deserter impaled by Attila
- Emnetzur (fl. 460), Hun nobleman, blood relative of Attila
- Eskam's daughter (fl. 448), daughter of Eskam and wife of Attila
- Eslas (fl. 450), Hun orator, negotiator, custodian and ambassador
- Gordas (fl. c. 503 – 528), prince of the Crimean Huns
- Hunor, forefather of the Huns and the Magyars according to Hungarian legend, the ancestor of Attila and Árpád
- Kreka (fl. 448), wife of Attila
- Magor, legendary ancestor of the Huns and the Magyars, an ancestor of Attila and Árpád
- Mamas (fl. 448), Hun prince and deserter impaled by Attila
- Oebarsius (Aybars) (fl. 440), Hunnic nobleman, brother of Mundzuk
- Ortlieb, legendary prince of Burgundian and Hunnic descent, the son of Kriemhild and Etzel
- Sifka, Hunnic princess appearing in the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, mother of Hlöd by Heidrek, king of the Geats
- Ultzindur (fl. 460), Hun nobleman, blood relative of Attila
See also
References
- ^ Hughes, Ian (2015). Patricians and Emperors The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781473866447. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ Friell, J. G. P.; Williams, Stephen Joseph (1999). The Rome that did not fall: the survival of the East in the fifth century. New York: Routledge. pp. 11–12. ISBN 0-415-15403-0.
- ^ Marcantonio, Angela (2018). The state of the art of Uralic studies: tradition vs innovation. Sapienza Università Editrice. p. 27. ISBN 9788893770668. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
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