List of Renaissance figures

This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.

Political leaders

**Cosimo I de' Medici
**Lorenzo de' Medici (also known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico")
**Coluccio Salutati
**Francesco Sforza
**Ludovico Sforza

*Other
**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
* Marsilio Ficino
* 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
* Lorenzo Valla
* Lope de Vega
* Thomas Wyatt

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
* Il Sodoma
* Tintoretto
* Titian
* Paolo Veronese
* Rogier van der Weyden

cientists

* 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
* Marin Getaldić
* Johannes Kepler
* Guidobaldo del Monte
* John Napier
* Pedro Nunes
* William Oughtred
* Luca Pacioli
* Robert Recorde
* Adam Ries
* Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Philosophers

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* 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

* Domenico da Piacenza
* Fabritio Caroso
* Thoinot Arbeau
* Cesare Negri

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

see also the cartographer
* Gerardus Mercator