people/1520s

English friar

Pretender to the English crown (died 1525)

Chinese general and writer (1528–1588)

Danzig politician (1524–1580)

French noble and marshal (1522–1602)

Duke of Bavaria from 1550 to 1579

16th-century Persian polymath

Hessian princess and Saxon consort

Italian grammarian, linguist and scholar

16th century Italian Theatine priest

Beg of Dulkadir from 1515 to 1522

English lady of the royal court

Lady-in-waiting

Ottoman Turkish poet

Danish noblewoman

Italian painter

Mughal advisor (1528–1586)

Italian painter

General of the Mughal Empire

Margrave (1529–1577)

French Catholic theologist, author and controversialist

Dutch printer, lexicographer and linguist

English bishop

Irish Roman Catholic bishop

English peer (1521–1549)

Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580

Italian Roman Catholic prelate

Wife of Thomas Cromwell (d. 1529)

English noblewoman

Italian military engineer (1521–1570)

Spanish physician (1524–1592)

16th century Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary in Japan

Baron of Montigny

Portuguese colonial governor

Catholic cardinal

16th-century English writer and literary critic

Flemish composer

English military commander

Lord of IJsselstein & councillor of Charles the Bold + Maximillian I

Irish peer

Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian