No biographical information exists for a philosopher named Damippus. The name appears in historical sources, but in other contexts. One was a Spartan mentioned by Plutarch during the Peloponnesian War, and another was a Syracusan envoy in 212 BCE.

The existence of a philosophical treatise attributed to Damippus is unattested in standard digital repositories and major reference works for ancient Greek literature.

Damippus holds no established significance as a philosopher. He is absent from all canonical lists of pre-Socratic, Socratic, or other Classical philosophical figures.