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Further information: Polyglot

This is a list of notable people with a knowledge of six or more languages.

Deceased

Antiquity and Middle Ages

• Mithridates VI (135–63 BC), King of Pontus.

  According to Pliny the Elder, Mithridates could speak the languages of all of the twenty-two nations that he ruled.^[1]

• Cleopatra (69–30 BC), Queen of Egypt. According to Plutarch, Cleopatra spoke many languages in addition to her native language, Greek, including Latin, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Trogodyte, and the languages of the Hebraioi, Arabes, Syrians, Medes, and Parthians.^[2]
• Al-Farabi (870–950), Islamic philosopher.

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  He was reputed to know seventy languages.^[3]

• Frederick II (1194–1250), King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor. He knew Italian, French, Latin, Greek, German, and Arabic.^[4]

Modern age, pre-18th century

• Mehmed II (1432–1481), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

  In addition to his native language, Turkish, he learnt A