René Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650), also known as "Renatus Cartesius" (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. Dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and the "Father of Modern Mathematics", much of subsequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day.

Lawrence Stone (December 4, 1919-June 16, 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain. He is noted for his work on the English Civil War, and marriage.

David L. Smith, born in London in 1963, is a noted historian of the Early Modern period of British history, particularly political, constitutional, legal and religious history in the Stuart period. He was educated at Eastbourne College (1972-81) and then at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1985, MA 1989, PhD 1990). He has been a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, since 1988. He is also currently Director of Studies in History, and a Graduate Tutor.

John Greville Agard (J.G.A.) Pocock (born March 71924) is a world-renowned historian and expatriate New Zealander, noted for his trenchant studies of republicanism in the early modern period (especially in Europe, Britain, and America), for his treatment of Edward Gibbon and noteworthy contemporaries as historians of Enlightenment, and, in historical method, for his contributions to the history of political discourse.

Michael Roberts (1908-1997) was a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history. Roberts was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and educated at Brighton College. He taught at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa from 1935, served in the army in East Africa during World War II and headed the British Council in Stockholm 1944-1946.

Jonathan Goldberg is a literary theorist and was until recently the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University. Previously, he taught at Duke University. His work frequently deals with the connections between early modern literature and modern thought, particularly in issues of gender and sexuality.

David C. Lindberg is an American historian of science. He is the Hilldale Professor Emeritus of History of Science and Adjunct Member, Institute for Research in the Humanities, at the University of Wisconsin. Lindberg holds a degree in physics from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University. His main work is in the history of medieval and early modern science, …

Mark Ravina is a scholar of early modern Japanese history, and Associate Professor of History at Emory University, where he has taught since 1991. Outside of academic circles, he is likely most well known for his book "The Last Samurai: the Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori", published in 2004. Much of Ravina's scholarly work centers on notions of national identity and state-building in early modern Japan.

Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian and the author of many works on early modern Russia (Muscovy). He is also the founder and editor of MemoryArchive, a universal wiki-type archive of contemporary memoirs. Poe graduated from Wichita (Kansas) Southeast High School in 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Grinnell College in 1984 and his Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.

Constantin Fasolt (born 1951), is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago and specializes in the development and significance of historical thought. He was born in Germany and attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn from 1961 to 1969. After two years of military service and three years of university study at Bonn and Heidelberg, …

Camille-Ernest Labrousse (1895-1988) was a French historian specializing in social and economic history. Labrousse established a historical model centered on three nodes: economic, social and cultural, inventing the quantitative history sometimes now called "Cliometrics". Eschewing biographies and the narrative accounts of individual witnesses, which have provided the backbone of traditional historiography, he applied statistical methods and influenced a whole generation.

Frederick Samuel Boas (1862-1957) was an English scholar of early modern drama. He was a graduate and then Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Richard Foster Jones (July 7, 1886-September 12, 1965) was a professor of English at Stanford University, and executive head of the university's English department. Born in Salido, Texas, he was the son of Samuel J. Jones, an educator who had been the head of Salado College before it closed, and who, following the college's closing, established in its former building the Thomas Arnold High School, a private academy which he headed from 1890 until 1913.

Augustin Renaudet was a French historian, and professor of the Collège de France. He was a specialist in humanism in early modern France and Italy.