One of the Buddha’s most eminent disciples, a barber from Kapilavatthu who accompanied the Sakyan princes into the Order and, at their request, was ordained before them so as to humble their pride, later learning the entire Vinaya from the Buddha and being declared foremost in mastery of monastic discipline.

A boy of Rājagaha whose over-indulgent parents had him ordained along with sixteen equally young companions, an episode whose youthful antics led to the rule against granting higher ordination to anyone under twenty.

A monk distinguished in the commentaries as Bhāgineyya Upāli, a nephew of the eminent disciple who ordained him, remembered for having been eighteen times a king among the gods and twenty-five times a king among men as a result of praising a past Buddha in verse.

A householder of Nāḷandā, distinguished as Upāli-Gahapati, who was originally a follower of Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta but was converted to become a Stream-winner after a debate with the Buddha recorded in the Upāli Sutta.

Head of the delegation of Thai monks sent at the request of King Kittisirirājasīha to re-establish higher ordination in Sri Lanka, where he was held in great esteem and eventually died of an incurable illness.