List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries

Philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:


 * Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.

A-B

 * Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437–1508)
 * Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (c. 1460–c. 1535)
 * Alessandro Achillini, (1463–1512)
 * Uriel Acosta, (1585–1640)
 * Rodolphus Agricola, (1443–1485)
 * Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436–1535)*
 * Leone Battista Alberti, (1404–1472)
 * Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433–1504)
 * Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420–1494)
 * Jacobus Arminius, (1560–1609)
 * Francis Bacon, (1561–1626)12
 * Domingo Báñez, (1528–1604)
 * Sebastiano Basso, (16th century)
 * Gabriel Biel, (1425–1495)
 * Jean Bodin, (1530–1596)12
 * Jakob Böhme, (1575–1624)
 * Giovanni Botero, (c. 1544–1617)
 * Giordano Bruno, (1548–1600)12*

C-E

 * Thomas Cajetan, (1469–1534)12
 * John Calvin, (1509–1564)2
 * Tommaso Campanella, (1568–1639)12
 * Gerolamo Cardano, (1501–1576)
 * Andrea Cesalpino, (1519–1603)
 * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, (1486–1534)
 * Pierre Charron, (1541–1603)
 * Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428–1500)
 * Chiao Hung, (1540–1620)
 * John Comenius, (1592–1670)12
 * Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473–1543)12
 * Johannes Crellius, (1590–1633)
 * Cesare Cremonini, (1550–1631)
 * Jalal al-Din al-Dawani, (1426–1502)
 * Elijah Delmedigo, (1460–1497)
 * Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, (1484–1558)
 * Denys the Carthusian (or Denys de Leeuwis), (1402–1471)
 * René Descartes, (1596–1650)12
 * Guillaume du Vair, (1556–1621)
 * Desiderius Erasmus, (1466–1536)12

F-K

 * Marsilio Ficino, (1433–1499)12*
 * Robert Filmer, (1588–1653)12
 * Robert Fludd, (1574–1637)
 * Pedro da Fonseca, (1528–1599)
 * Fujiwara Seika, (1561–1619)
 * Galileo Galilei, (1564–1642)12
 * Pierre Gassendi, (1592–1655)12
 * Rudolph Goclenius, (1547–1628)
 * Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki (1530–1607)
 * Hugo Grotius, (1583–1645)12
 * Henricus Regius, (1598–1679)
 * Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, (1583–1648)
 * Abraham Cohen de Herrera (or Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira), (1562–1635)
 * Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679)12
 * Richard Hooker, (1554–1600)
 * John of St. Thomas (or Jean Poinsot), (1589–1644)
 * Joachim Jungius, (1587–1657)
 * Bartholomäus Keckermann, (1571–1609)
 * Johannes Kepler, (1571–1630)*

L-O

 * Isaac La Peyrère, (1596–1676)
 * Justus Lipsius, (1547–1606)
 * Liu Tsung-chou (or Ch'i-shan), (1578–1645)
 * Martin Luther, (1483–1546)12
 * Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469–1527)12
 * John Major (or John Mair), (1467–1550)12
 * Juan de Mariana, (1536–1624)
 * Jacopo Mazzoni, (1548–1598)
 * Bartolomé de Medina, (1527–1580)
 * Philipp Melanchthon, (1497–1560)
 * Marin Mersenne, (1588–1648)
 * Judah Messer Leon, (c. 1425 – c. 1495)
 * Mikyo Dorje (or Mi bskyod rdo rje), (1507–1554)
 * Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad (or Sayyid al-Afadil or Ishraq or Ibn al-Damad), (died 1631)
 * Luis de Molina, (1535–1600)12
 * Michel de Montaigne, (1533–1592)12
 * Thomas More, (1478–1535)*
 * Mulla Sadra, (1571–1640)12
 * Nicholas of Cusa, (1401–1464)12*
 * Agostino Nifo, (1470–1538)
 * Richard Overton, (c. 1599 – 1664)

P-T

 * Paracelsus, (1493–1541)
 * Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (or Franciscus Patritius) (1529–1597)
 * Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, (1463–1494)12*
 * Pietro Pomponazzi, (1462–1525)12
 * François Rabelais, (1493–1553)
 * Petrus Ramus, (1515–1572)
 * Raghunatha Siromani, (c. 1477–1547)
 * Francisco Sanches, (1551–1623)
 * Julius Caesar Scaliger, (1484–1558)
 * Michal Sedziwój, (1566–1636)
 * John Selden, (1584–1654)
 * Francesco Silvestri (or Francis Sylvester of Ferrara), (1474–1528)
 * Sosan Hyujong, (1520–1604)
 * Domingo de Soto, (1494–1560)
 * Francisco Suárez, (1548–1617)12*
 * Nicolaus Taurellus, (1547–1606)
 * Bernardino Telesio, (1509–1588)
 * Teresa of Avila, (1515–1582)
 * Francisco Toledo, (1532–1596)

V-Z

 * Lorenzo Valla, (1406–1457)12*
 * Vallabhacharya, (1479–1531)
 * Vyasatirtha, (c. 1460–1539)
 * Lucilio "Giulio Cesare" Vanini, (1585–1619)
 * Gabriel Vasquez, (1549–1604)
 * Nicoletto Vernia, (1442–1499)
 * Francisco de Vitoria, (1492–1546)12
 * Juan Luís Vives, (1492–1540)
 * Wang Yangming, (1472–1529)12
 * Thomas White, (1593–1676)
 * Yi Hwang (or Toegye) (1501–1570)
 * Yi I (or Yi Yulgok or Yi Yi) (1536–1584)
 * Jacopo Zabarella, (1533–1589)