List of Renaissance humanists

This list of Renaissance humanists records personalities of Renaissance humanism in chronological order according to the year of birth :

Born after 1300

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) (Italian)
Simon Atumano ( ca.1310-ca.1389 ) (Greek)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) (Italian)

Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) (Italian)

Geert Groote (1340–1384) (Dutch)

Bernat Metge (approx. 1340–1413) (Catalans)

Born after 1350

Manuel Chrysoloras (approx. 1355-1415) (Greek)
Georgios Gemistos Plethon (approx. 1355–1452 / 1454) (Greek)
Niccolò Niccoli (1365–1437) (Italian)
Leonardo Bruni (approx. 1369–1444) (Italian)
Guarino da Verona (1374–1460) (Italian)
Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) (Italian)
Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) (Italian)
Cosimo de 'Medici (1389–1464) (Italian)
Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) (Italian)
Georgios Trapezuntios (1395–1486) (Greek)
Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481) (Italian)
Iñigo López de Mendoza (1398–1458) (Spanish)
Pietro Balbi (1399–1479) (Italian)
Theodoros Gazes (approx. 1400–1475) (Greek)
Giovanni Tortelli (c. 1400 – before 1466) (Italian)

Born after 1400

Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek)
Lorenzo Valla (c. 1405-1457) (Italian)
Peter Luder (around 1415–1472) (German)
Niccolò Perotti (1429–1480) (Italian)
Sigismondo de 'Conti (1432–1512) (Italian)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) (Italian)
Stefano Infessura (ca.1435-c.1500) (Italian)
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) (Spanish)
Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara (1438–1490) (Italian)
Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) (Spanish)
Rudolf Agricola (humanist) (1443–1485) (Frisian)
Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533) (Italian)
Janos Laskaris (approx. 1445–1535) (Greek)
William Grocyn (c. 1446–1519) (English)
Domizio Calderini (1446–1478) (Italian)

Born after 1450

Girolamo Avanzi (15th to 16th centuries) (Italian)
Jakob Wimpfeling (1450–1528) (German)
Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531) (German)
Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1453–1505), (Italian)
Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522) (German)
Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) (German)
Peter Martyr of Anghiera (1457–1526) (Italian)
Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530) (Italian)
Konrad Celtis (1459–1508) (German)
Johannes Stabius (1460–1522) (Austrian)
Ulrich Zasius (1461–1535) (German)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) (Italian)
Desiderius Erasmus (approx. 1466–1536) (Dutch)
Guillaume Budé (1468–1540) (French)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) (Italian)
Aegidius de Viterbo (1469–1532) (Italian)
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) (Italian)
Jakob Locher (1471–1528) (German)
Heinrich Bebel (1472–1518) (German)
Filippo Beroaldo the Younger (1472–1518), (Italian)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) (Italian)
Thomas More (1478–1535) (English)
Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) (Italian)
Charles de Bouelles (1479–1567) (French)
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552) (Italian)
Georg Tannstetter (1482–1535) (German)
Raffael (1483–1520) (Italian)
Andrea Navagero (1483–1529) (Italian)
Paolo Giovio (1483–1552) (Italian)
Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) (Italian)
Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547) (German)
Pieter Gillis (1486–1533) (Flame)
Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) (Austrian / Slovene)
Macropedius (1487–1558) (Dutch)
Pietro Alcionio (c. 1487–1527) (Italian)
Mariangelo Accursio (1489–1546) (Italian)
Gilbert Ducher (ca.1490? -After 1538) (French)
Juan Boscán Almogávar (c. 1490? -1542) (Spanish)
Rudolf Agricola (poet) (1490–1521) (German)
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) (Italian)
Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540) (Spanish)
François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553) (French)
Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) (German)
Vincenzo Maggi (1498–1564) (Italian)
Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498–1565) (Italian)
Andre de Resende (1498–1573) (Portuguese)
Pietro Vettori (1499–1585) (Italian)
Janus Cornarius (1500–1558) (German)
Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500–1574) (Italian)

Born after 1500

Giovanni Della Casa (1503–1556) (Italian)
Lodovico Castelvetro (c. 1505–1571) (Italian)
Matthaeus Devarius (approx. 1505–1581) (Greek)
George Buchanan (1506–1582) (Scots)
Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1578) (Italian)
Arnoldus Arlenius (approx. 1510–1582) (Dutch)
Simon Lemnius (1511–1550) (Swiss, Rhaeto-Romanic)
Francesco Robortello (1516–1567) (Italian)
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572) (Dutch)
Natale Conti (1520–1582) (Italian)
Absalon Pederssøn Beyer (1528–1575) (Norwegian)
Fulvio Orsini (1529–1600) (Italian)
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) (French)
Vincenzo Cartari (1531? –1569) (Italian)
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
Paul Melissus (1539-1602) (German)
Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609) (French)
Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590) (German)
Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) (Flame)

Born after 1550

Ignazio Cardini (1566–1602) ( Corsican / Italian)
Daniel Heinsius (1580–1655) (Dutch)
Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) (Dutch)

Born after 1600

Jacob Balde (1604–1668) (German)
Tanaquil Faber (1615–1672) (French)

Born after 1650

Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) (Dutch)

literature

Manfred Landfester (ed.): Renaissance humanism. Lexicon for the reception of antiquities (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements , Vol. 9). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-18509-2
Franz Josef Worstbrock (Ed.): German Humanism 1480–1520. Author Lexicon . 3 volumes, de Gruyter, Berlin 2008–2015, ISBN 978-3-11-020639-5 , ISBN 978-3-11-033395-4 , ISBN 978-3-11-034546-9