# List of Renaissance figures

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

## Artists and architects

* Albrecht Altdorfer
* Bartolommeo Berrecci
* Jean Bullant
* Agnolo Bronzino
* Pieter Brueghel the Elder
* Pieter Brueghel the Younger
* Jan Brueghel the Younger
* Filippo Brunelleschi
* Marco Cardisco
* Juan de Castillo
* Androuet du Cerceau
* Jean Clouet
* François Clouet
* Colantonio
* Lucas Cranach the Elder
* Lucas Cranach the Younger
* Philibert Delorme
* Donatello
* Albrecht Dürer
* Hans Dürer
* Jean Fouquet
* Rosso Fiorentino
* Francesco Fiorentino
* Piero della Francesca
* Marcus Gheeraerts
* Lorenzo Ghiberti
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Domenico Ghirlandaio
* Giuliano da Sangallo
* Giorgione
* Giotto di Bondone
* Jean Goujon
* George Gower
* Benozzo Gozzoli
* El Greco
* Matthias Grünewald
* Juan de Herrera
* Nicholas Hilliard
* Francisco de Holanda
* Hans Holbein the Younger
* Inigo Jones
* Conrad Faber von Kreuznach
* Pierre Lescot
* Fra Filippo Lippi
* Lorenzo Lotto
* Pedro Machuca
* Andrea Mantegna
* Masaccio
* Antonello da Messina
* Michelangelo
* Luis de Morales
* Bernardo Morando
* Pietro Negroni
* Isaac Oliver
* Philibert de l'Orme
* Andrea Palladio
* Palma Vecchio
* Palma il Giovane
* Pietro Perugino
* Sebastian del Piombo
* Andrea Pisano
* Bernard Palissy
* Germain Pilon
* Pisanello
* Jan Polack
* Jacone Puligo
* Giovanni Baptista di Quadro
* Jan van Eyck
* Francesco Primaticcio
* Raphael
* Stanislaw Samostrzelnik
* Sebastiano Serlio
* Luca Signorelli
* Diego Siloe
* Il Sodoma
* Tintoretto
* Titian
* Juan Bautista de Toledo
* Andres de Vandelvira
* Paolo Veronese
* Rogier van der Weyden
* Andreas Vesalius

## Mathematicians

* François d'Aguilon
* Petrus Apianus
* Tycho Brahe
* Gerolamo Cardano
* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Gemma Frisius
* Galileo Galilei
* Marin Getaldić
* Johannes Kepler
* Guidobaldo del Monte
* John Napier
* Pedro Nunes
* William Oughtred
* Luca Pacioli
* Robert Recorde
* Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

## Writers

* Ludovico Ariosto
* Martin Bauzer
* Luís de Camões
* Baldassare Castiglione
* Miguel de Cervantes
* Geoffrey Chaucer
* John of the Cross
* John Donne
* Alberico Gentili
* Marko Gerbec
* Ben Jonson
* Jan Kochanowski
* Luis de León
* Christopher Marlowe
* Petrarch
* Christine de Pizan
* Poliziano
* François Rabelais
* Fernando de Rojas
* Lope de Rueda
* Pierre de Ronsard
* William Shakespeare
* Catherine of Siena
* Cicco Simonetta
* Garcilaso de la Vega
* Gil Vicente

## Philosophers

* Robert Boyle
* Nicholas of Cusa
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* Pico della Mirandola
* Martín de Azpilcueta
* Francis Bacon
* Giordano Bruno
* Tommaso Campanella
* Nicholas of Cusa
* Cornelis Drebbel
* Desiderius Erasmus
* Marsilio Ficino
* Pietro Pomponazzi
* Francesco Guicciardini
* Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
* Michel de Montaigne
* Thomas More
* Antonio Serra
* Francisco Suárez
* Bernardino Telesio
* Francisco de Vitoria

## Composers

* Gilles Binchois
* William Byrd
* Antonio de Cabezón
* Josquin des Prez
* John Dowland
* Guillaume Dufay
* Michelangelo Falvetti
* Giovanni Gabrieli
* Vincenzo Galilei
* Orlando Gibbons
* Jacobus Handl
* Heinrich Isaac
* Clément Janequin
* Orlandus Lassus
* Luca Marenzio
* Claudio Monteverdi
* Cristóbal de Morales
* Thomas Morley
* Jean Mouton
* Johannes Ockeghem
* Jacopo Peri
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
* Michael Praetorius
* Thomas Tallis
* John Taverner
* Tomás Luis de Victoria
* Adrian Willaert
* Carlo Gesualdo

## Dancing masters

* Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
* Antonio Cornazzano
* Domenico da Piacenza
* Fabritio Caroso
* Thoinot Arbeau
* Cesare Negri

## Explorers and navigators

* Christopher Columbus
* Amerigo Vespucci
* Vasco Núñez de Balboa
* Gonçalo Álvares
* John Cabot
* Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri
* Jacques Cartier
* Samuel de Champlain
* Gaspar Corte-Real
* Hernán Cortés
* Bartolomeu Dias
* Diogo Dias
* Sir Francis Drake
* Juan Sebastián Elcano
* Vasco da Gama
* Prince Henry
* Willem Janszoon
* Ferdinand Magellan
* Gerardus Mercator
* Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
* Francisco Pizarro
* Marco Polo
* Juan Ponce de León
* Abel Tasman
* Giovanni da Verrazzano
* João Gonçalves Zarco

## Humanists

* Leon Battista Alberti
* Thomas Blundeville
* Giovanni Boccaccio
* Poggio Bracciolini
* Leonardo Bruni
* Johannes Cuspinian
* Erasmus
* Thomas More
* Matteo Palmieri
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* François Rabelais
* Petrus Ramus
* Coluccio Salutati
* Andreas Stöberl
* Georg Tannstetter
* Juan Luis Vives
* Jan Campanus Vodňanský

## Other influential people

* Francis I of France
* Henry VIII
* John Calvin
* Johannes Gutenberg
* Elizabeth I
* Pope Julius II
* Martin Luther
* The Medici
** Lorenzo de' Medici
* Sigismund I the Old
* Jakob Fugger
* Paracelsus
* Girolamo Savonarola
* Taccola
* Giorgio Vasari
* Andreas Vesalius
* Conrad Gessner