people/1490s

German-Danish general and statesman

Bohemian nobleman

Italian jurist

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1482 to 1497

Swedish noblewoman (1494–1559)

Wife of Martin Luther (c. 1499–1552)

Spanish bishop

French mathematician and cartographer

Sicilian mathematician and astronomer (1494–1575)

Italian courtier and poet (1493–1569)

Queen of Denmark (1523–1533) and Norway (1524–1533)

Italian macaronic poet

Neo-Latin poet

16th-century Portuguese saint

16th-century Catholic cardinal

Italian condottiero

Dutch-born Protestant religious figure

Dutch Renaissance painter

Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Voivode of Vilnius

English noble

Swedish clergyman (1499–1573)

Italian canoness and writer (1497–1587)

Member of the Parliament of England

16th-century Bible translator

Italian writer, philologist and humanist

English knight and courtier

Duchess consort of Lorraine

Catholic archbishop (1492–1540)

German Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer

Doge of Venice from 1578 to 1585

Count of Waldeck-Wildungen

Guru Nanak's elder son (1494–1629)

Swedish writer, cartographer, and prelate (1490–1557)

German botanist (1497/98–1554)

Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine of Simmern