List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
# List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries

Philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:

       Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.

## A-B

* Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437–1508)
* Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (c. 1460–c. 1535)
* Alessandro Achillini, (1463–1512)
* Uriel Acosta, (1585–1640)
* Rodolphus Agricola, (1443–1485)
* Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436–1535)*
* Leone Battista Alberti, (1404–1472)
* Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433–1504)
* Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420–1494)
* Jacobus Arminius, (1560–1609)
* Francis Bacon, (1561–1626)12
* Domingo Báñez, (1528–1604)
* Sebastiano Basso, (16th century)
* Gabriel Biel, (1425–1495)
* Jean Bodin, (1530–1596)12
* Jakob Böhme, (1575–1624)
* Giovanni Botero, (c. 1544–1617)
* Giordano Bruno, (1548–1600)12*

## C-E

* Thomas Cajetan, (1469–1534)12
* John Calvin, (1509–1564)2
* Tommaso Campanella, (1568–1639)12
* Gerolamo Cardano, (1501–1576)
* Andrea Cesalpino, (1519–1603)
* Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, (1486–1534)
* Pierre Charron, (1541–1603)
* Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428–1500)
* Chiao Hung, (1540–1620)
* John Comenius, (1592–1670)12
* Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473–1543)12
* Johannes Crellius, (1590–1633)
* Cesare Cremonini, (1550–1631)
* Jalal al-Din al-Dawani, (1426–1502)
* Elijah Delmedigo, (1460–1497)
* Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, (1484–1558)
* Denys the Carthusian (or Denys de Leeuwis), (1402–1471)
* René Descartes, (1596–1650)12
* Guillaume du Vair, (1556–1621)
* Desiderius Erasmus, (1466–1536)12

## F-K

* Marsilio Ficino, (1433–1499)12*
* Robert Filmer, (1588–1653)12
* Robert Fludd, (1574–1637)
* Pedro da Fonseca, (1528–1599)
* Fujiwara Seika, (1561–1619)
* Galileo Galilei, (1564–1642)12
* Pierre Gassendi, (1592–1655)12
* Rudolph Goclenius, (1547–1628)
* Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki (1530–1607)
* Hugo Grotius, (1583–1645)12
* Henricus Regius, (1598–1679)
* Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, (1583–1648)
* Abraham Cohen de Herrera (or Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira), (1562–1635)
* Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679)12
* Richard Hooker, (1554–1600)
* John of St. Thomas (or Jean Poinsot), (1589–1644)
* Joachim Jungius, (1587–1657)
* Bartholomäus Keckermann, (1571–1609)
* Johannes Kepler, (1571–1630)*

## L-O

* Isaac La Peyrère, (1596–1676)
* Justus Lipsius, (1547–1606)
* Liu Tsung-chou (or Ch'i-shan), (1578–1645)
* Martin Luther, (1483–1546)12
* Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469–1527)12
* John Major (or John Mair), (1467–1550)12
* Juan de Mariana, (1536–1624)
* Jacopo Mazzoni, (1548–1598)
* Bartolomé de Medina, (1527–1580)
* Philipp Melanchthon, (1497–1560)
* Marin Mersenne, (1588–1648)
* Judah Messer Leon, (c. 1425 – c. 1495)
* Mikyo Dorje (or Mi bskyod rdo rje), (1507–1554)
* Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad (or Sayyid al-Afadil or Ishraq or Ibn al-Damad), (died 1631)
* Luis de Molina, (1535–1600)12
* Michel de Montaigne, (1533–1592)12
* Thomas More, (1478–1535)*
* Mulla Sadra, (1571–1640)12
* Nicholas of Cusa, (1401–1464)12*
* Agostino Nifo, (1470–1538)
* Richard Overton, (c. 1599 – 1664)

## P-T

* Paracelsus, (1493–1541)
* Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (or Franciscus Patritius) (1529–1597)
* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, (1463–1494)12*
* Pietro Pomponazzi, (1462–1525)12
* François Rabelais, (1493–1553)
* Petrus Ramus, (1515–1572)
* Raghunatha Siromani, (c. 1477–1547)
* Francisco Sanches, (1551–1623)
* Julius Caesar Scaliger, (1484–1558)
* Michal Sedziwój, (1566–1636)
* John Selden, (1584–1654)
* Francesco Silvestri (or Francis Sylvester of Ferrara), (1474–1528)
* Sosan Hyujong, (1520–1604)
* Domingo de Soto, (1494–1560)
* Francisco Suárez, (1548–1617)12*
* Nicolaus Taurellus, (1547–1606)
* Bernardino Telesio, (1509–1588)
* Teresa of Avila, (1515–1582)
* Francisco Toledo, (1532–1596)

## V-Z

* Lorenzo Valla, (1406–1457)12*
* Vallabhacharya, (1479–1531)
* Vyasatirtha, (c. 1460–1539)
* Lucilio "Giulio Cesare" Vanini, (1585–1619)
* Gabriel Vasquez, (1549–1604)
* Nicoletto Vernia, (1442–1499)
* Francisco de Vitoria, (1492–1546)12
* Juan Luís Vives, (1492–1540)
* Wang Yangming, (1472–1529)12
* Thomas White, (1593–1676)
* Yi Hwang (or Toegye) (1501–1570)
* Yi I (or Yi Yulgok or Yi Yi) (1536–1584)
* Jacopo Zabarella, (1533–1589)
