List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:

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

See also:

• List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
• List of philosophers born in the first through tenth centuries
• List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries
• List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
• List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century
• List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century
• List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century
• List of philosophers born in the twentieth century
• List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy

A-B

• Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437-1508)^CRS
• Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (1460?-1535?)^CR
• Alessandro Achillini, (1463-1512)
• Uriel Acosta, (1585-1640)
• Rodolphus Agricola, (1443-1485)^R
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436-1535)^RS*
• Leone Battista Alberti, (1404-1472)
• Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433-1504)^R
• Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420-1494)^R
• Jacobus Arminius, (1560-1609)^C
• Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)^CO12^RS
• Domingo Báñez, (1528-1604)^CR
• Sebastiano Basso, (16th century)
• Gabriel Biel, (1425-1495)^R
• Jean Bodin, (1530-1596)^CO12^RS
• Jakob Böhme, (1575-1624)^CR
• Giovanni Botero, (c1544-1617)
• Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600)^CO12^RS*

C-E

• Thomas Cajetan, (1469-1534)^CO12^R
• John Calvin, (1509-1564)^CO2^R
• Tommaso Campanella, (1568-1639)^CO12^RS
• Gerolamo Cardano, (1501-1576)^R
• Andrea Cesalpino, (1519-1603)
• Pierre Charron, (1541-1603)^CR
• Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428-1500)^C
• Chiao Hung, (1540-1620)^C
• John Comenius, (1592-1670)^O12^R
• Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543)^O12^RS
• Johannes Crellius, (1590-1633)
• Cesare Cremonini, (1550-1631)
• Jalal al-Din al-Dawani, (1426-1502)^R
• Elijah Delmedigo, (1460-1497)^RS
• Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, (1484-1558)
• Denys the Carthusian (or Denys de Leeuwis), (1402-1471)^R
• René Descartes, (1596-1650)^CO12^R
• Guillaume du Vair, (1556-1621)^C
• Desiderius Erasmus, (1466-1536)^CO12^R

F-K

• Marsilio Ficino, (1433-1499)^CO12^RS*
• Robert Filmer, (1588-1653)^CO12^R
• Robert Fludd, (1574-1637)^CR
• Pedro da Fonseca, (1528-1599)^CR
• Fujiwara Seika, (1561-1619)^R
• Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642)^CO12^RS
• Pierre Gassendi, (1592-1655)^CO12^RS
• Rudolph Goclenius, (1547-1628)^C
• Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki (1530-1607)
• Hugo Grotius, (1583-1645)^CO12^RS
• Henricus Regius, (1598-1679)^R
• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, (1583-1648)^R
• Abraham Cohen de Herrera (or Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira), (1562-1635)^R
• Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679)^CO12^R
• Richard Hooker, (1554-1600)^R
• John of St. Thomas (or Jean Poinsot), (1589-1644)^CR
• Joachim Jungius, (1587-1657)^R
• Bartholomäus Keckermann, (1571-1609)^R
• Johannes Kepler, (1571-1630)^CRS*

L-O

• Isaac La Peyrère, (1596-1676)^C
• Justus Lipsius, (1547-1606)^RS
• Liu Tsung-chou (or Ch'i-shan), (1578-1645)^C
• Martin Luther, (1483-1546)^CO12^R
• Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469-1527)^CO12^RS
• John Major (or John Mair), (1467-1550)^O12^R
• Juan de Mariana, (1536-1624)^C
• Jacopo Mazzoni, (1548-1598)
• Bartolomé de Medina, (1527-1580)^C
• Philipp Melanchthon, (1497-1560)^R
• Marin Mersenne, (1588-1648)^CR
• Judah Messer Leon, (c. 1425-c. 1495)^R
• Mikyo Dorje (or Mi bskyod rdo rje), (1507-1554)^R
• Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad (or Sayyid al-Afadil or Ishraq or Ibn al-Damad), (d. 1631)^R
• Luis de Molina, (1535-1600)^CO12^R
• Michel de Montaigne, (1533-1592)^CO12^RS
• Thomas More, (1478-1535)^CS*
• Mulla Sadra, (1571-1640)^O12^R
• Nicholas of Cusa, (1401-1464)^CO12^RS*
• Agostino Nifo, (1470-1538)^R
• Richard Overton, (c. 1599-1664)^R

P-T

• Paracelsus, (1493-1541)^CR
• Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (or Franciscus Patritius) (1529-1597)^RS
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, (1463-1494)^CO12^RS*
• Pietro Pomponazzi, (1462-1525)^CO12^RS
• François Rabelais, (1493-1553)^R
• Petrus Ramus, (1515-1572)^CRS*
• Francisco Sanches, (1551-1623)^CR
• Julius Caesar Scaliger, (1484-1558)
• Michal Sedziwój, (1566-1636)
• John Selden, (1584-1654)^R
• Francesco Silvestri (or Francis Sylvester of Ferrara), (1474-1528)^R
• Sosan Hyujong, (1520-1604)^R
• Domingo de Soto, (1494-1560)^CR
• Francisco Suárez, (1548-1617)^CO12^RS*
• Nicolaus Taurellus, (1547-1606)
• Bernardino Telesio, (1509-1588)^CRS
• Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582)^C
• Francisco Toledo, (1532-1596)^CR

V-Z

• Lorenzo Valla, (1406-1457)^CO12^RS*
• Vallabhacharya, (1479-1531)^R
• Giulio Cesare Vanini, (1585-1619)^C
• Gabriel Vazquez, (1549-1604)^C
• Nicoletto Vernia, (1442-1499)^R
• Francisco de Vitoria, (1492-1546)^CO12^R
• Juan Luís Vives, (1492-1540)^CR
• Wang Yangming, (1472-1529)^CO12^R
• Thomas White, (1593-1676)^R
• Yi Hwang (or Toegye) (1501-1570)^R
• Yi I (or Yi Yulgok or Yi Yi) (1536-1584)^R
• Jacopo Zabarella, (1533-1589)^CRS

Notes

• Note C: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 978-0-521-63722-0

• Note O: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

1: Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-866132-0

2: Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-926479-7

• Note R: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 2000. ISBN 978-0-415-22364-5

• Note S: - This person is featured in the peer-reviewed online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Subjects with an asterisk have an article solicited about them, but not yet published at the encyclopedia (as of 2-22-2006).

See also

• List of philosophers