People

Gildas

People · 500

Gildas, British monk

People · 500

Gregory of Tours

People · 538

Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman historian

People · 538

Augustine of Canterbury

People · 550

Augustine of Canterbury, Christian monk

People · 550

Muhammad

People · 570

Muhammad, Arab religious, social, political leader

People · 570

Balthild of Chelles

People · 626

Balthild of Chelles, humble & modest queen famous for her charitable service, reforms

People · 626

Bede, English monk, author, scholar

People · 672

Bede

People · 673

Bede, Anglo-Saxon historian

People · 673

Śrīdhara or Śrīdharācārya

People · 750

Śrīdhara or Śrīdharācārya, Indian mathematician

People · 750

Han Yu (Han Wengong)

People · 768

Han Yu (Han Wengong), essayist, Confucian scholar, poet, government official

People · 768

Abu Bakr al-Razi

People · 864

Rhazes, Persian physician, philosopher, alchemist

People · 864

Erik Thorvaldsson

People · 950

Erik Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), Norse explorer

People · 950

Ibn al-Haytham

People · 965

Alhazen, Arab physicist, mathematician, astronomer

People · 965

Leif Ericson

People · 970

Leif Ericson, Norse explorer

People · 970

Avicenna

People · 980

Avicenna, Persian physician, philosopher

People · 980

William the Conqueror

People · 1028

William the Conqueror, first Norman king of England

People · 1028

Omar Khayyam

People · 1048

Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, poet

People · 1048

Sir William Peveril

People · 1050

Peter the Hermit

People · 1050

Sir William Peveril, Norman knight

People · 1050

Peter the Hermit, Roman Catholic priest of Amiens

People · 1050

Li Qingzhao

People · 1084

Li Qingzhao, Chinese poet, essayist

People · 1084

Hemchandra

People · 1088

Hemchandra, Indian scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher

People · 1088

William of Malmesbury

People · 1095

William of Malmesbury, English historian

People · 1095

Hildegard of Bingen

People · 1098

Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, polymath

People · 1098

Hildegard of Bingen, German composer, writer, nun

People · 1098

Geoffrey of Monmouth

People · 1100

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Welsh historial, cleric

People · 1100

Eustathius of Thessalonica

People · 1115

Eustathius of Thessalonica, Byzantine Greek scholar

People · 1115

Thomas Becket

People · 1120

Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

People · 1120

Ibn Rushd

People · 1126

Ibn Rushd, Arab Muslim polymath, jurist

People · 1126

Averroes

People · 1126

Averroes, Andalusian jurist, philosopher

People · 1126

Maimonides

People · 1135

Maimonides, Jewish astronomer, philosopher, physician

People · 1135

Sir William the Marshal

People · 1147

Sir William the Marshal, Anglo-Norman knight

People · 1147

Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)

People · 1170

Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa), Italian mathematician

People · 1170

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone

People · 1181

Francis of Assisi, Italian poet, Catholic friar

People · 1181

Clare of Assisi

People · 1193

Clare of Assisi, founded the Order of Poor Ladies

People · 1193

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

People · 1207

Rumi, Hanafi jurist, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, Sufi mystic

People · 1207

Roger Bacon

People · 1214

Roger Bacon, English philosopher, Franciscan friar

People · 1214

Bonaventure

People · 1221

Bonaventure, Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop

People · 1221

Thomas Aquinas

People · 1225

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian

People · 1225

Marco Polo

People · 1254

Marco Polo, Venetian merchant, explorer, writer

People · 1254

Ibn Taymiyya

People · 1263

Ibn Taymiyya, Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, iconoclastic theologian

People · 1263

Dante Alighieri

People · 1265

Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, writer, philosopher

People · 1265

William Wallace

People · 1270

Sir William Wallace, Scottish knight

People · 1270

Sir William Wallace

People · 1270

Sir Andrew Harclay

People · 1270

Sir Andrew Harclay, English knight

People · 1270

William of Ockham

People · 1287

William of Ockham, English Franciscan friar, philosopher, apologist, theologian

People · 1287

Francis Petrarch

People · 1304

Francis Petrarch, Italian scholar, poet

People · 1304

Petrarch

People · 1304

Petrarch, Italian scholar, poet from Arezzo

People · 1304

William Tell

People · 1307

Giovanni Boccaccio

People · 1313

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer, poet

People · 1313

Nicole Oresme

People · 1325

Nicole Oresme, French philosopher/mathematician

People · 1325

Karma Lingpa

People · 1326

Karma Lingpa, Tibetan philosopher

People · 1326

John Wycliffe

People · 1328

John Wycliffe, English scholastic philosopher, reformer

People · 1328

Geoffrey Chaucer

People · 1340

Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet, author

People · 1340

William Tell, Swiss folk hero

People · 1350

Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy

People · 1364

Christine de Pizan

People · 1364

Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, English knight

People · 1364

Christine de Pizan, Italian-born French poet, court writer

People · 1364

Jan Hus

People · 1369

Jan Hus, Czech theologian, philosopher

People · 1369

Jan Hus, Czech theologian, reformer

People · 1370

Filippo Brunelleschi

People · 1377

Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect, designer, sculptor

People · 1377

Hubert van Eyck

People · 1385

Hubert van Eyck, Netherlandish painter

People · 1385

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi

People · 1386

Donatello, Italian sculptor

People · 1386

Sir Walter Hungerford

People · 1387

Sir Walter Hungerford, English knight

People · 1387

Jan van Eyck

People · 1389

Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter

People · 1389

Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu

People · 1394

Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese navigator

People · 1394

Henry the Navigator

People · 1394

Henry the Navigator, Portuguese

People · 1394

Johannes Gutenberg

People · 1400

Johannes Gutenberg, German inventor, craftsman

People · 1400

Joan of Arc

People · 1412

Joan of Arc, French military leader, martyr

People · 1412

Joan of Arc, French military leader/martyr

People · 1412

Piero della Francesca

People · 1415

Piero della Francesca, Italian painter/mathematician

People · 1415

João Vaz Corte-Real

People · 1420

João Vaz Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer

People · 1420

Andrea del Verrocchio

People · 1435

Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor, painter

People · 1435

Sandro Botticelli

People · 1445

Botticelli, Italian painter

People · 1445

Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli

People · 1447

Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar

People · 1447

Miguel Corte-Real

People · 1448

Miguel Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer

People · 1448

Lorenzo de' Medici

People · 1449

Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman

People · 1449

John Cabot

People · 1450

John Cabot, Italian navigator, explorer

People · 1450

Gaspar Corte-Real

People · 1450

Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer

People · 1450

Christopher Columbus

People · 1451

Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, navigator

People · 1451

Leonardo da Vinci

People · 1452

Girolamo Savonarola

People · 1452

Diogo Cão

People · 1452

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath

People · 1452

Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar

People · 1452

Diogo Cão, Portuguese mariner, explorer

People · 1452

João Fernandes Lavrador

People · 1453

João Fernandes Lavrador, Portuguese explorer

People · 1453

Amerigo Vespucci

People · 1454

Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, navigator

People · 1454

Flippino Lippi

People · 1457

Flippino Lippi, Italian painter

People · 1457

Lorenzo di Credi

People · 1459

Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, sculptor

People · 1459

Juan Ponce de León

People · 1460

Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador

People · 1460

João Álvares Fagundes

People · 1460

João Álvares Fagundes, Portuguese explorer

People · 1460

Piri Reis

People · 1465

Piri Reis, Ottoman navigator, geographer, cartographer

People · 1465

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

People · 1466

Erasmus, Dutch theologian, philosopher

People · 1466

Pedro Álvares Cabral

People · 1467

Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator, explorer

People · 1467

Vasco da Gama

People · 1469

Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer

People · 1469

Albrecht Dürer

People · 1471

Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker, theorist

People · 1471

Nicolaus Copernicus

People · 1473

Copernicus, Polish polymath

People · 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish polymath

People · 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian polymath

People · 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician, astronomer

People · 1473

Ponce de Leon

People · 1474

Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer, conquistador

People · 1474

Michelangelo Buonarroti

People · 1475

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

People · 1475

Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect

People · 1475

Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador

People · 1475

Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos

People · 1476

Francisco Pizarro González

People · 1476

Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador

People · 1476

Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador

People · 1476

Ferdinand Magellan

People · 1480

Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer

People · 1480

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

People · 1483

Martin Luther

People · 1483

Raphael, Italian painter

People · 1483

Martin Luther, German theologian, Protestant reformer

People · 1483

Tiziano Vecelli (Titian)

People · 1485

Titian, Venetian Renaissance painter

People · 1485

Giovanni da Verrazzano

People · 1485

Hernán Cortés

People · 1485

Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer

People · 1485

Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador

People · 1485

Cabeza de Vaca

People · 1490

Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer

People · 1490

Jacques Cartier

People · 1491

Jacques Cartier, French-Breton maritime explorer

People · 1491

Paracelsus

People · 1493

Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, theologian, philosopher

People · 1493

William Tyndale

People · 1494

William Tyndale, English biblical scholar, linguist

People · 1494

Hernando de Soto

People · 1496

Hernando De Soto

People · 1496

Hernando de Soto, Spanish conquistador

People · 1496

Hernando De Soto, Spanish conquistador

People · 1496

Philip Melanchthon

People · 1497

Philip Melanchthon, German Lutheran reformer, theologian

People · 1497