people/1550s

Cornish Protestant martyr

English clergyman (c.1550–1639)

Archbishop-Elector of Cologne

Spanish nobleman

Italian physician

Italian painter

Dutch historian (1559–1617)

Dutch painter

Chinese painter and politician (1555–1636)

Lieutenant of Tower of London

Italian physician

English noblewoman

English aristocrat

Danish noble (1554–1621)

English saint and martyr

English nonconformist clergyman

Hungarian noble, politician (1555–1604)

English merchant

French Jesuit theologian

Scottish peer (died 1552)

English Roman Catholic priest

Welsh antiquarian, author, and naturalist

French architect and master-mason

Catholic cardinal

Italian painter

16th century Kashmiri poet-empress

German artist (1490–c. 1554)

Ottoman poet (1500?–1557)

Flemish painter (1555–1630)

Italian physician, art collector, art dealer and writer

Member of the Parliament of England

British bishop

Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (1557–1633)