people/1540s

16th-century English politician

English businessman (1547–1610)

Member of the Parliament of England

Khan of Moghulistan from 1503 to 1543

Italian bishop and cardinal (1543–1585)

French churchman and orator

French statesman

British bishop (died 1615)

English antiquary and archivist

Japanese noble (1543–1590)

Italian painter

Italian condottiero

English priest, diplomat and MP

Japanese samurai (1546–1619)

French Catholic priest and saint (1544–1607)

Italian priest (1543–1615)

German Jesuit preacher and polemical writer

Italian composer

Daimyo of the Date clan of Mutsu Province

Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Scottish nobleman

Member of the Parliament of England

English politician

Founder and first Count of the line Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1545–1605)

Scottish Jesuit

Iranian author and scholar

Dutch Anabaptist, fl. 1525–1544

Galician (Spanish) nobleman

English politician and knight

Duke of Urbino (1574–1621, 1623–31)

British landowner

Italian Cardinal, diplomat and arts patron (1549–1627)

Italian prelate of the Catholic Church (1548–1594)

Duke Lorraine and Bar from 1545 to 1608