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List of Renaissance figures
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February 11, 2025
Leonardo da Vinci
, the archetype of the Renaissance man
This is a list of notable people associated with the
Renaissance
.
Contents
Artists and architects
Mathematicians
Writers
Philosophers
Composers
Dancing masters
Explorers and navigators
Humanists
Other influential people
See also
References
Artists and architects
Filippo Brunelleschi
Albrecht Dürer
Michelangelo
Sandro Botticelli
Titian
El Greco
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
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
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
William Shakespeare
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
Niccolò Machiavelli
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
Main articles:
List of Renaissance composers
and
List of English Renaissance composers
Orlande de Lassus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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
Hernán Cortés
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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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
Main article:
List of Renaissance humanists
Erasmus of Rotterdam
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
Johannes Gutenberg
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
See also
List of Renaissance structures
Index of Renaissance articles
References
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"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco Nunez de Balboa"
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www.newadvent.org
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2017-04-26
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