people/1520s

Italian condotierro (1526–1571)

16th-century Persian polymath

Italian writer and merchant (1521–1589)

Elector of Saxony from 1547 to 1553

French nobleman and politician

Spanish painter

Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 to 1576

Swiss physician (1528–1586)

Danish noblewoman

English Protestant reformer and Marian exile

English clergyman (1522–1571)

Irish politician and landowner

Archbishop of Antivari

Pretender to the English crown (died 1525)

Italian painter (1529–1566)

15th/16th-century Scottish earl

English friar

Austrian military commander and general

Ruler of Poland and Lithuania from 1529 to 1572

Italian noble (1525–48)

Japanese monk (1524–1609)

German Lutheran theologian and Protestant Reformer

Lithuanian noble (died 1527)

16th-century English politician

English noblewoman and translator

English chronicler

French writer

French diplomat and Catholic prelate (1528–1584)

Flemish painter

English peer and courtier (1526–1596)

Italian architect and painter

Princess of Asturias

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal

Italian theologian and co-founder of Socinianism (1525–1562)

French humanist (1526–1585)

Duchess of Braganza (1459–1521)

English Statesman and Poet

Flemish theologian and controversialist

French marshal and diplomat (1524–1592)

Scottish magnate

German Lutheran theologian and reformer

Italian bishop and cardinal (1521-1583)