people/1520s

Queen Regent of Gondwana (1524:-1564)

Spanish general, sailor, diplomat and politician

Spanish general and statesman

English peer and MP for Hythe and Rochester

Archduke of Further Austria from 1564 to 1595

French marshal and diplomat (1524–1592)

Dutch cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)

Dutch doctor and mathematician (1520–1564)

Scottish politician (1525–1573)

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574

Pretender to the English crown (died 1525)

English clergyman (1522–1571)

Chinese general and writer (1528–1588)

Lady of Dunnyveg

Danzig politician (1524–1580)

Hessian princess and Saxon consort

French noble and marshal (1522–1602)

16th-century Persian polymath

Duke of Bavaria from 1550 to 1579

Italian sculptor (1525–1608)

Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar

Spanish conquistador

Archbishop of Antivari

English landowner and politician

Beg of Dulkadir from 1515 to 1522

16th century Italian Theatine priest

Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1575 to 1587

English lady of the royal court

Indian philosopher

French painter

Lady-in-waiting

French Protestant Hebraist and tutor

Italian painter (1529–1592)

Danish noblewoman

Ruler of Cuzcatlan

Ottoman Turkish poet

Daimyo of the Sengoku period

Mughal advisor (1528–1586)

Heir apparent of Mewar and husband of poet Meerabai

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Italian painter

Italian painter

French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal