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• Juan Gines de Sepulveda (1494-1573) (španski)
• Nikola Kuzanski (1401–1464) (njemački)
• Simon Atumano (?-c.1380) (grčko-turski)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) (talijanski)
• Leontius Pilatus (?-1364/1366) (talijanski)
• Francesc Eiximenis (c. 1330–1409) (katalonski)
• Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) (talijanski)
• Geert Groote (1340–1384) (danski)
• Bernat Metge (c.1340–1413) (katalonski)
• Manuel Chrysoloras (c.1355–1415) (grčki)
• Gemistus Pleton (c.1355–1452/1454) (grčki)
• Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (talijanski)
• Leonardo Bruni (c.1369–1444) (talijanski)
• Guarino da Verona (1370–1460) (talijanski)
• Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) (talijanski)
• Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) (talijanski)
• Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) (talijanski)
• Petar, vojvoda Coimbre (1392–1449) (portugalski)
• Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (talijanski)
• Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) (talijanski)
• Georgij Trapezundski (1395–1486) (grčki)
• Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) (talijanski)
• Tommaso Parentucelli (papa Nikola V) (1391–1455) (talijanski)
• Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (talijanski)
• Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453) (talijanski)
• Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) (španski)
• Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (grčki)
• Visarion (1403–1472) (grčki)
• Gregory od Sanoka (1403/07–1477) (poljski)
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (papa Pio II) (1405–1464) (talijanski)
• Bartolomeo Facio (1410–1457) (talijanski/napuljski)
• Wessel Gansfort (1419-1489) (frizijski)
• Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) (talijanski/rimski)
• Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421–1498) (talijanski)
• Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503) (talijanski/napuljski)
• Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428–1498) (talijanski/rimski)
• Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (talijanski)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (talijanski/firentinski)
• Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) (mađarski/hrvatski)
• John Doget (c.1434–1501) (engleski)
• Antonio Bonfini (1434–1503) (talijanski)
• Stefano Infessura (c.1435-c.1500) (talijanski)
• Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (španski)
• Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437–1496) (talijanski/toskanski)
• Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara (1438–1490) (talijanski)
• Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) (španski)
• Rodolphus Agricola (1443–1485) (frizijski)
• Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533) (talijanski)
• Janus Lascaris (c.1445–1535) (grčki)
• William Grocyn (c.1446–1519) (engleski)
• Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) (talijanski/venecijanski)
• Yuriy Drohobych (1450-1494) (ukrajinski)
• Marko Marulić (1450-1524) (hrvatski/venecijanski)
• Marin Barleti (c.1450–c.1512/13) (albanski/venecijanski)
• Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (njemački)
• Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) (talijanski/firentinski)
• Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) (njemački)
• Paulus Aemilius Veronensis (1455–1529) (talijanski/venecijanski)
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1455–1536) (francuski)
• Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457–1526) (talijanski)
• Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (talijanski)
• Conrad Celtes (1459–1508) (njemački)
• Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) (njemački)
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (talijanski)
• Hector Boece (1465–1536) (škotski)
• Laurentius Corvinus (1465–1527) (šleski)
• Erazmo Roterdamski (c.1466–1536) (danski)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (talijanski/firentinski)
• Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470–1540) (portugalski)
• Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522) (talijanski)
• Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (talijanski)
• Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) (talijanski/engleski)
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) (talijanski)
• Thomas More (1478–1535) (engleski)
• Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) (talijanski)
• Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) (talijanski)
• Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) (španski)
• Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (njemački)
• Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (flamanski)
• Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (austrijski/slovenski)
• Macropedius (1487–1558) (danski)
• Pietro Alcionio (c.1487–1527) (talijanski)
• William Farel (1489–1565) (francuski/švicarski)
• Alfonso de Valdés (1490–1532) (španski)
• Joan Boscà i Almogàver (c.1490?–1542) (špansko-katalonski)
• Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (talijanski/toskanski)
• Joan Lluís Vives i March (1492–1540) (špansko-valencijanski)
• François Rabelais (c.1494–1553) (francuski)
• Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) (njemački)
• Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565) (talijanski)
• André de Resende (1498–1573) (portugalski)
• Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) (njemački)
• Damião de Góis (1502–1574) (portugalski)
• Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) (talijanski)
• George Buchanan (1506–1582) (škotski)
• Arnoldus Arlenius (c.1510–1582) (danski)
• Michael Servetus (1511–1553) (španski)
• Francesco Robortello (1516–1567) (talijanski)
• Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572) (danski)
• Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) (francuski)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (francuski)
• Alphonsus Ciacconius (1540–1599) (španski)
• Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) (flamanski)
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) (talijanski)
• Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602) (korzikanski/talijanski)
• Thomas Reid (?–1624) (škotski)
• David Hume od Godscrofta (1558–1629) (škotski)
• Gian Vittorio Rossi (1577–1647) talijanski pjesnik, filolog i historičar.
• Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) talijanski pjesnik, dvorski historičar i autor vojnih djela.

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