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 Adriaan van Roomen Bartholomaeus Pitiscus Christoph Rudolff Cuthbert Tunstall
François d'Aguilon Francesco Pellos Federico Commandino Francesco Barozzi Petrus Apianus Gerolamo Cardano Giovanni Antonio Magini Ludolph van Ceulen Nicolaus Copernicus Gemma Frisius Giovanni Bianchini Georg von Peuerbach Guillaume Gosselin Jerónimo Muñoz Johannes Werner Johannes Buteo John Dee Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples Juan de Ortega Marin Getaldić Michael Maestlin Guidobaldo del Monte John Napier Oronce Fine Pedro Nunes Pedro Ciruelo Piero della Francesca Simon Stevin Thomas Digges Thomas Harriot William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Galileo
Writers
Desiderius Erasmus Ludovico Ariosto Lope de Vega Martin Bauzer Luís de Camões Baldassare Castiglione Edmund Spenser Francis Bacon François Rabelais Miguel de Cervantes Michel de Montaigne Marguerite de Navarre Geoffrey Chaucer Giovanni Boccaccio John of the Cross John Donne Alberico Gentili Marko Gerbec Ben Jonson Jan Kochanowski Joachim du Bellay Luis de León Ludovico Ariosto Niccolo Machiavelli Christopher Marlowe Petrarch Christine de Pizan Poliziano Pietro Aretino Philip Sidney Torquato Tasso Thomas More 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
Coluccio Salutati Nicholas of Cusa Niccolò Machiavelli Pico della Mirandola Martín de Azpilcueta Giordano Bruno Leonardo Bruni Lorenzo Valla Tommaso Campanella Cornelis Drebbel Desiderius Erasmus Hugo Grotius Marsilio Ficino Pietro Pomponazzi Sebastian Castellio Francesco Petrarca Francesco Guicciardini Francis Bacon Jean Bodin John Calvin Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Michel de Montaigne Thomas More Antonio Serra Francisco Suárez Francisco Sanches Bernardino Telesio Francisco de Vitoria
Composers
Adrian Willaert Guillaume Du Fay Gilles Binchois William Byrd Antonio de Cabezón Josquin des Prez John Dowland John Dunstaple Josquin des Prez Juan del Encina Guillaume Dufay Michelangelo Falvetti Andrea Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli Luzzasco Luzzaschi Vincenzo Galilei Orlando Gibbons Jacobus Handl Heinrich Isaac Clément Janequin Orlandus Lassus Luca Marenzio Ludwig Senfl Claudio Monteverdi Claude Le Jeune Cristóbal de Morales Thomas Morley Jean Mouton Johannes Ockeghem Jacob Obrecht Jacopo Peri Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Michael Praetorius Pierre de la Rue Thomas Tallis John Taverner Tomás Luis de Victoria Antoine Busnois Adrian Willaert Carlo Gesualdo
Dancing masters Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx Antonio Cornazzano Domenico da Piacenza Fabritio Caroso Thoinot Arbeau Cesare Negri Guglielmo Ebreo Lutio Compasso Livio Lupi da Caravaggio John Playford
Explorers and navigators
Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Afonso de Albuquerque Vasco Núñez de Balboa Gonçalo Álvares John Cabot Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Gaspar Corte-Real Hernán Cortés Martin Frobisher Bartolomeu Dias Diogo Dias Henry Hudson Juan Ponce de León Sir Francis Drake Juan Sebastián Elcano Vasco da Gama Prince Henry Pedro Álvares Cabral Willem Janszoon Ferdinand Magellan Willem Barentsz Francisco de Orellana 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 Matthias Corvinus 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