Cai Lun
48–121
Chinese official credited with inventing paper (died 121)
politician · eunuch · inventor
Born in Leiyang
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Cai Lun:
- Paul the Apostle (5–66)
- Plutarch (40–120)
- Seneca (4 BC–65)
- Saint Peter (0–65)
- Tacitus (55–120)
- Ptolemy (100–170)
- Nero (37–68)
- Pliny the Elder (20–79)
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