people/1560s

English soldier and traveller (1565-1635)

Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg

English peer and MP

German astronomer and mathematician (1561–1613)

English Roman Catholic priest and martyr

English politician

French churchman (1562–1615)

German pastor

English physician and lexicographer

Scottish peer

English sailor, politician, and courtier (1561–1626)

Galician heroine

Italian legal scholar (1563–1616)

Scottish-Gaelic lord

Yemenite Jewish author and Talmudist (1567–1625)

Russian general (d. 1565)

English Catholic poet and conspirator

Court physician in royal courts of Philip III and Philip IV

Italian painter

Italian architect, civil and military engineer

Italian nobleman

French organ builder (c.1560–1636)

English clergyman

Jesuit hagiographer

English politician

Korean painter and poet (1563–1589)

Korean writer and politician (1569–1618)

English ecclesiastic and statesman

English merchant and politician

Korean rebel leader (1521–1562)

Dutch Golden Age painter

Spanish noble

Daimyo

Lord Mayor of London, 1627–1636

Welsh writer

Russian rebel leader (1565–1608)

Dutch admiral

German Jesuit theologian, author and religious instructor

French organist and composer (died 1564)

German Jesuit writer (1562–1625)

Danish diplomat (1567–1630)

Palatine of Hungary