This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.
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Political leaders
Francis I of France.
Martin Luther.
Luís de Camões.
Niccolò Machiavelli.
Edmund Spenser
- Italian Renaissance
- Isabella d'Este
- Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza
- Federico III da Montefeltro
- Ferdinand I of Naples
- Francesco Foscari
- Andrea Gritti
- Ludovico II of Gonzaga
- Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Cosimo I de' Medici
- Lorenzo de' Medici (also known as Lorenzo il Magnifico)
- Coluccio Salutati
- Francesco Sforza
- Ludovico Sforza
- Other
- Catherine Jagellonica of Poland (duchess of Finland, queen of Sweden)
- Catherine de' Medici
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain
- Elizabeth I of England
- Ferdinand of Aragon
- Francis I of France
- Francis, Duke of Guise of France
- Henri IV of France
- Henry VIII of England
- Henry the Navigator of Portugal
- Isabella of Castile
- Don John of Austria
- Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary
- Manuel I of Portugal
- Marguerite de Valois of France
- Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Phillip II of Spain
- Sigismund the Old of Poland
- Sigismund Augustus of Poland
- William the Silent of the Netherlands
Religious figures
- Pope Nicholas V
- Pope Pius II
- Pope Sixtus IV
- Pope Alexander VI
- Pope Julius II
- Pope Leo X
- Martin Luther
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Tomás de Torquemada
Authors
- Andrea Alciato
- Mateo Alemán
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Agrippa d'Aubigné
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf
- Leonardo Bruni
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Luís de Camões
- Baldassare Castiglione
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Erasmus
- Mikołaj Gomółka
- Luis de Góngora
- Łukasz Górnicki
- John of the Cross
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Ben Jonson
- Jan Kochanowski
- Louise Labé
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Marguerite de Navarre
- Christopher Marlowe
- John Milton
- Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
- Tirso de Molina
- Michel de Montaigne
- Thomas More
- Clément Marot
- Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca
- Angelo Poliziano
- Francisco de Quevedo
- Coluccio Salutati
- François Rabelais
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Mikołaj Rej
- Maurice Sceve
- William Shakespeare
- Philip Sidney
- Edmund Spencer
- Szymon Szymonowic
- Torquato Tasso
- Saint Teresa of Ávila
- Lope de Vega
- Thomas Wyatt
Leon Battista Alberti, typical "Renaissance Man".
The Palermo Annunciate by Antonello da Messina.
Albrecht Dürer.
Artists and architects
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Fra Angelico
- Antonello da Messina
- Gentile Bellini
- Giovanni Bellini
- Jacopo Bellini
- Benedykt from Sandomierz
- Bartolommeo Berrecci
- Giotto di Bondone
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Sandro Botticelli
- Donato Bramante
- Jean Bullant
- Agnolo Bronzino
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger
- Jan Brueghel the Elder
- Jan Brueghel the Younger
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Androuet du Cerceau,
- Jean Clouet
- François Clouet
- Philibert Delorme
- Donatello
- Albrecht Dürer
- Hans Dürer
- Jean Fouquet
- Rosso Fiorentino
- Francesco Florentino
- Piero della Francesca
- Marcus Gheeraerts
- Lorenzo Ghiberti
- Giorgione
- Giotto di Bondone
- George Gower
- Benozzo Gozzoli
- El Greco
- Jean Goujon
- Nicholas Hilliard
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Inigo Jones
- Pierre Lescot
- Filippino Lippi
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Andrea Mantegna
- Michelangelo
- Bernardo Morando
- Isaac Oliver
- Philibert de l'Orme
- Andrea Palladio
- Sebastiano del Piombo
- Bernard Palissy
- Germain Pilon
- Antonio Pisanello
- Giovanni Baptista di Quadro
- Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Jan van Eyck
- Jan Polack
- Francesco Primaticcio
- Eberhard Rosemberger
- Stanislaw Samostrzelnik
- Sebastiano Serlio
- John Bryam Liston Shaw
- Il Sodoma
- Tintoretto
- Titian
- Paolo Veronese
- Rogier van der Weyden
Scientists
- Giovanni Borelli
- Tycho Brahe
- Benedetto Castelli
- Copernicus
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Paracelsus
- Garcia de Orta
- Pedro Nunes
- Andreas Vesalius
Mathematicians
- Petrus Apianus
- François d'Aguilon
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Gemma Frisius
- Marino Ghetaldi
- Johannes Kepler
- Guidobaldo del Monte
- John Napier
- Pedro Nunes
- William Oughtred
- Luca Pacioli
- Robert Recorde
- Adam Ries
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Philosophers
Adrian Willaert.
- Francis Bacon
- Giordano Bruno
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Marsilio Ficino
- Francesco Guicciardini
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Pico della Mirandola
- Michel de Montaigne
Composers
- Gilles Binchois
- William Byrd
- Josquin Des Prez
- John Dowland
- Guillaume Dufay
- John Dunstaple
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Vincenzo Galilei
- Heinrich Isaac
- Orlandus Lassus (also known as Orlando di Lasso)
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Jean Mouton
- Johannes Ockeghem
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Thomas Tallis
- Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Adrian Willaert
Dancemasters
Samuel de Champlain.
Explorers and navigators
- Giovanni Caboto
- Jacques Cartier
- Samuel de Champlain
- Christopher Columbus
- Hernán Cortés
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Francis Drake
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Francisco Pizarro
- Walter Raleigh
- Giovanni da Verrazzano
see also the cartographer
