- Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence
- Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family
- Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII
- Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family
- Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria
- André Oscar Wallenberg founder of Wallenberg family, by Gustav Uno Troili