Zosimus was a Greek historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I (491–518). According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury. Zosimus was also known for condemning Constantine’s rejection of the traditional polytheistic religion.
Zośka Vieras, known by her pen name Liudvika Sivickaja-Vojcik, was a Belarusian writer and one of the initiators and active participants of the Belarusian national revival.
Zou Yan was a Chinese Warring States-era philosopher and spiritual writer best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy.
Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya is a Soviet writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, critic, and author of major cultural projects in Russia and abroad. She was born in Moscow to Boris Lvovich Boguslavsky and Emma Iosifovna Boguslavskaya. She studied at the Moscow State Institute of Arts and Institute of History of Art. She has been affiliated with the Association of Women Writers of Russia, the Russian Writers' Union, the Internal Association of Women Writers in Paris, and the Russian Pen Centre.
Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident who was repeatedly arrested by the authorities of the former Soviet Union for her publications. She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage.
Zoya Yunoevna Semenduyeva was a Soviet and Israeli poet. She wrote in a language of the Mountain Jew (Juhuri). She was a member of Dagestan Writers' Union.
Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children. A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu and Serdtse Materi. In 1962–1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR.
