List of Renaissance figures

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

Artists and architects

 * Albrecht Altdorfer
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Jakob Fugger
 * Paracelsus
 * Girolamo Savonarola
 * Taccola
 * Giorgio Vasari
 * Andreas Vesalius
 * Conrad Gessner