people/1500s

Italian novelist and poet

Chinese writer

French nobleman

Dutch painter

16th-century English politician

Catholic preacher and author (1504–1558)

16th-century Jewish Portuguese mystic

Head of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572

German physician and astrologer (1505–1577)

Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)

Karmapa of Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism (1507–1554)

Polish princess

Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan from 1486 to 1502

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Spanish conquistador

Scottish noble

French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Italian humanist

Roman Catholic cardinal

French duchess (1508–1580)

French noblewoman

English noble (1501–1558)

Calvinist Protestant reformer

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Italian poet and critic

French Protestant reformer

16th-century German nobleman

Italian physician, and botanist

Italian cardinal

German engraver and miniaturist (1502–1540))

Italian painter

Swiss Protestant theologian (1505–1574)

Italian humanist (1503–1569)

Italian painter (1500–1561)

16th-century officer of arms at College of Arms

Queen of Portugal from 1525 to 1557

Korean philosopher (1501–1572)

Italian noblewoman (1500–1545)

Japanese Warlord

Spanish conquistador

Italian writer, poet and playwright (1503–1584)