title: List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
text: # 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)
  