Liu Xie (c. 465–522), a literary critic of the Liang Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period; author of [[文心雕龙|文心雕龍|wen2 xin1 diao1 long2]], the first systematic work of Chinese literary theory.

Jia Sixie (sixth century AD), a famous agronomist of the Northern Wei Dynasty; he is the author of the [[齐民要术|齊民要術|qi2 min2 yao4 shu4]], China's earliest and most complete surviving agricultural encyclopedia.