people/1530s

Flemish-born scholar, printer and publisher

French jurist and political philosopher (c. 1530–1596)

King of Sweden from 1569 to 1592

Czech architect and engineer

Italian academic, bishop, and diplomat (1538–1585)

Sultan of Aceh (c. 1514–1530)

Spanish Dominican scholar (1530–1599)

Polish–Lithuanian nobleman

16th-century Countess of Northumberland

Wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Italian bishop

Florentine cardinal

Inca prince and general

Sultan of Gujarat from 1526 to 1535 and from 1536 to 1537

Russian child saint (1532–1544)

16th-century English jurist and politician

Spanish theologian and philosopher (1536–1610)

Japanese Daimyo

Defeated at Spancel Hill (1535–1581)

English knight

Chinese general (1531–1598)

Flemish humanist and painter

English noblewoman

Ruthenian heiress

Italian duke

Hungarian noble

Italian papal bureaucrat, bishop and cardinal

English legal writer

Roman Catholic prelate

Italian sculptor

Italian bishop and writer (1531–1595)

English Anglican divine and civil lawyer

16th-century King of Kartli

German classical scholar

English courtier