# List of Renaissance humanists

The following is a list of Renaissance humanists, individuals whose careers threw light on the movement as a whole.

## List

* Barlaam of Seminara (c. 1290-1348) (Italian)
* Leontius Pilatus (?-1364/1366) (Greek)
* Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) (Italian)
* Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (Italian)
* Simon Atumano (?-c.1380) (Greco-Turkish)
* Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1330–1409) (Catalan)
* Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) (Italian)
* Geert Groote (1340–1384) (Dutch)
* Bernat Metge (c.1340–1413) (Catalan)
* Manuel Chrysoloras (c.1355–1415) (Greek)
* George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355–1452/1454) (Greek)
* Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (Italian)
* Leonardo Bruni (c.1369–1444) (Italian)
* Guarino da Verona (1370–1460) (Italian)
* Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) (Italian)
* Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) (Italian)
* Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) (Italian)
* Tommaso Parentucelli (Pope Nicholas V) (1391–1455) (Italian)
* Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392–1449) (Portuguese)
* Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (Italian)
* Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) (Italian)
* George of Trebizond (1395–1486) (Greek)
* Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) (Italian)
* Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)
* Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453) (Italian)
* Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) (Castilian)
* Gjon Gazulli (1400–1465) (Albanian)
* Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (Greek)
* Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1469) (German)
* Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek)
* Gregory of Sanok (1403/07–1477) (Polish)
* Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) (1405–1464) (Italian)
* John Vitéz (1408–1472) (Croatian/Hungarian)
* Bartolomeo Facio (1410–1457) (Italian/Neapolitan)
* Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) (Italian)
* Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (Frisian)
* Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) (Italian/Roman)
* Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (Italian)
* Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (Italian/Neapolitan)
* Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428–1498) (Italian/Roman)
* Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (Italian)
* Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (Italian/Florentine)
* Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) (Hungarian/Croatian)
* John Doget (c.1434–1501) (English)
* Antonio Bonfini (1434–1503) (Italian)
* Stefano Infessura (c.1435-c.1500) (Italian)
* Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (Spanish)
* Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437–1496) (Italian/ Tuscan)
* Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara (1438–1490) (Italian)
* Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) (Spanish)
* Martin Segon (?–1482/85) (Serbian)
* Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485) (Frisian)
* Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533) (Italian)
* Janus Lascaris (c.1445–1535) (Greek)
* Juraj Šižgorić (1445–1509) (Croatian)
* William Grocyn (c.1446–1519) (English)
* Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) (Italian/Venetian)
* Yuriy Drohobych (1450-1494) (Ukrainian)
* Marko Marulić (1450-1524) (Croatian)
* Marin Barleti (c.1450–c.1512/13) (Albanian/Venetian)
* Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (German)
* Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) (Italian/Florentine)
* Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) (German)
* Paulus Aemilius Veronensis (1455–1529) (Italian/Venetian)
* Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1455–1536) (French)
* Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (1456–1531) (Albanian or Greek)
* Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) (Italian)
* Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (Italian)
* Conrad Celtes (1459–1508) (German)
* Džore Držić (1461–1501) (Croatian)
* Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) (German)
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (Italian)
* Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558) (Italian)
* Hector Boece (1465–1536) (Scottish)
* Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527) (Silesian)
* Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) (Dutch)
* Marinus Becichemus Scodrensis (1468–1526) (Albanian)
* Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (Italian/Florentine)
* Laura Cereta (1469-1499) (Italian)
* Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470–1540) (Portuguese)
* Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) (Italian)
* Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (Italian)
* Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) (Italian/English)
* Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) (Italian)
* Alessandra Scala (1475-1506)(Italian)
* Thomas More (1478–1535) (English)
* Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) (Italian)
* Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) (Italian)
* Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) (Spanish)
* Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (German)
* Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flemish)
* Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian/Slovene)
* Macropedius (1487–1558) (Dutch)
* Pietro Alcionio (c.1487–1527) (Italian)
* William Farel (1489–1565) (French/Swiss)
* Alfonso de Valdés (1490–1532) (Spanish)
* Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (Catalan)
* Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian/Tuscan)
* Joan Lluís Vives i March (1492–1540) (Valencian)
* François Rabelais (c.1494–1553) (French)
* Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (1494-1573) (Spanish)
* Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) (German)
* Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565) (Italian)
* André de Resende (1498–1573) (Portuguese)
* Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) (German)
* Damião de Góis (1502–1574) (Portuguese)
* Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) (Italian)
* George Buchanan (1506–1582) (Scottish)
* Arnoldus Arlenius (c.1510–1582) (Dutch)
* Michael Servetus (1511–1553) (Spanish)
* Francesco Robortello (1516–1567) (Italian)
* Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572) (Dutch)
* Giovanni Valentino Gentile (c. 1520-1566) (Italian)
* Łukasz Górnicki (1527-1603) (Polish)
* Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) (French)
* Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works
* Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
* Paul Skalich (1534–1573) (Croatian)
* Alphonsus Ciacconius (1540–1599) (Spanish)
* Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) (Flemish)
* Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) (Italian)
* Fausto Veranzio (1551–1617) (Croatian)
* Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602) (Corsican/Italian)
* Thomas Reid (?–1624) (Scottish)
* David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629) (Scottish)
* Gian Vittorio Rossi (1577–1647) Italian poet, philologist, and historian.