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.

See also:

A-B

Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437–1508)[1][2][3]
Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (c. 1460–c. 1535)[1][2]
Alessandro Achillini, (1463–1512)
Uriel Acosta, (1585–1640)
Rodolphus Agricola, (1443–1485)[2]
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436–1535)[2][3]*
Leone Battista Alberti, (1404–1472)
Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433–1504)[2]
Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420–1494)[2]
Jacobus Arminius, (1560–1609)[1]
Francis Bacon, (1561–1626)[1][4]12[2][3]
Domingo Báñez, (1528–1604)[1][2]
Sebastiano Basso, (16th century)
Gabriel Biel, (1425–1495)[2]
Jean Bodin, (1530–1596)[1][4]12[2][3]
Jakob Böhme, (1575–1624)[1][2]
Giovanni Botero, (c. 1544–1617)
Giordano Bruno, (1548–1600)[1][4]12[2][3]*

Thomas Cajetan, (1469–1534)[1][4]12[2]
John Calvin, (1509–1564)[1][4]2[2]
Tommaso Campanella, (1568–1639)[1][4]12[2][3]
Gerolamo Cardano, (1501–1576)[2]
Andrea Cesalpino, (1519–1603)
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, (1486–1534)
Pierre Charron, (1541–1603)[1][2]
Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428–1500)[1]
Chiao Hung, (1540–1620)[1]
John Comenius, (1592–1670)[4]12[2]
Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473–1543)[4]12[2][3]
Johannes Crellius, (1590–1633)
Cesare Cremonini, (1550–1631)
Jalal al-Din al-Dawani, (1426–1502)[2]
Elijah Delmedigo, (1460–1497)[2][3]
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, (1484–1558)
Denys the Carthusian (or Denys de Leeuwis), (1402–1471)[2]
René Descartes, (1596–1650)[1][4]12[2]
Guillaume du Vair, (1556–1621)[1]
Desiderius Erasmus, (1466–1536)[1][4]12[2]

Marsilio Ficino, (1433–1499)[1][4]12[2][3]*
Robert Filmer, (1588–1653)[1][4]12[2]
Robert Fludd, (1574–1637)[1][2]
Pedro da Fonseca, (1528–1599)[1][2]
Fujiwara Seika, (1561–1619)[2]
Galileo Galilei, (1564–1642)[1][4]12[2][3]
Pierre Gassendi, (1592–1655)[1][4]12[2][3]
Rudolph Goclenius, (1547–1628)[1]
Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki (1530–1607)
Hugo Grotius, (1583–1645)[1][4]12[2][3]
Henricus Regius, (1598–1679)[2]
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, (1583–1648)[2]
Abraham Cohen de Herrera (or Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira), (1562–1635)[2]
Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679)[1][4]12[2]
Richard Hooker, (1554–1600)[2]
John of St. Thomas (or Jean Poinsot), (1589–1644)[1][2]
Joachim Jungius, (1587–1657)[2]
Bartholomäus Keckermann, (1571–1609)[2]
Johannes Kepler, (1571–1630)[1][2][3]*

Isaac La Peyrère, (1596–1676)[1]
Justus Lipsius, (1547–1606)[2][3]
Liu Tsung-chou (or Ch'i-shan), (1578–1645)[1]
Martin Luther, (1483–1546)[1][4]12[2]
Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469–1527)[1][4]12[2][3]
John Major (or John Mair), (1467–1550)[4]12[2]
Juan de Mariana, (1536–1624)[1]
Jacopo Mazzoni, (1548–1598)
Bartolomé de Medina, (1527–1580)[1]
Philipp Melanchthon, (1497–1560)[2]
Marin Mersenne, (1588–1648)[1][2]
Judah Messer Leon, (c. 1425 – c. 1495)[2]
Mikyo Dorje (or Mi bskyod rdo rje), (1507–1554)[2]
Muhammad Baqir Mir Damad (or Sayyid al-Afadil or Ishraq or Ibn al-Damad), (died 1631)[2]
Luis de Molina, (1535–1600)[1][4]12[2]
Michel de Montaigne, (1533–1592)[1][4]12[2][3]
Thomas More, (1478–1535)[1][3]*
Mulla Sadra, (1571–1640)[4]12[2]
Nicholas of Cusa, (1401–1464)[1][4]12[2][3]*
Agostino Nifo, (1470–1538)[2]
Richard Overton, (c. 1599 – 1664)[2]

Paracelsus, (1493–1541)[1][2]
Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (or Franciscus Patritius) (1529–1597)[2][3]
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, (1463–1494)[1][4]12[2][3]*
Pietro Pomponazzi, (1462–1525)[1][4]12[2][3]
François Rabelais, (1493–1553)[2]
Petrus Ramus, (1515–1572)[1][2][3]
Raghunatha Siromani, (c. 1477–1547)
Francisco Sanches, (1551–1623)[1][2]
Julius Caesar Scaliger, (1484–1558)
Michal Sedziwój, (1566–1636)
John Selden, (1584–1654)[2]
Francesco Silvestri (or Francis Sylvester of Ferrara), (1474–1528)[2]
Sosan Hyujong, (1520–1604)[2]
Domingo de Soto, (1494–1560)[1][2]
Francisco Suárez, (1548–1617)[1][4]12[2][3]*
Nicolaus Taurellus, (1547–1606)
Bernardino Telesio, (1509–1588)[1][2][3]
Teresa of Avila, (1515–1582)[1]
Francisco Toledo, (1532–1596)[1][2]

Lorenzo Valla, (1406–1457)[1][4]12[2][3]*
Vallabhacharya, (1479–1531)[2]
Vyasatirtha, (c. 1460–1539)
Lucilio "Giulio Cesare" Vanini, (1585–1619)[1]
Gabriel Vasquez, (1549–1604)[1]
Nicoletto Vernia, (1442–1499)[2]
Francisco de Vitoria, (1492–1546)[1][4]12[2]
Juan Luís Vives, (1492–1540)[1][2]
Wang Yangming, (1472–1529)[1][4]12[2]
Thomas White, (1593–1676)[2]
Yi Hwang (or Toegye) (1501–1570)[2]
Yi I (or Yi Yulgok or Yi Yi) (1536–1584)[2]
Jacopo Zabarella, (1533–1589)[1][2][3]

- 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
- 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
- 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).
- 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

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