- Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405-1471)
- St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
- Sir Thomas More (c. 1478-1535)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
- François Rabelais (c. 1495-1553)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
- Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
- William Gilbert (1544-1603)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
- (The Book of Common Prayer) (1549)
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- Richard Hooker (c. 1553-1600)
- Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
