Sidney Lee

Sidney Lee

male, deceased (1926)
Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic. He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the...
Vincenzo Galilei

Vincenzo Galilei

male, deceased (1591)
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 - July 2, 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist...
Nicholas Ridley

Nicholas Ridley

male, deceased (1555)
Nicholas Ridley (died October 16, 1555) was an English clergyman. He came from a prominent family in Tynedale, Northumberland, and was born early...
Zacharias Ursinus

Zacharias Ursinus

male, deceased (1583)
Zacharias Ursinus, a sixteenth century German theologian, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Like all young scholars of that e...
Lope de Rueda

Lope de Rueda

male, deceased (1565)
Lope de Rueda was a Spanish dramatist and author, quite possibly the best of his era. A very versatile writer, he also wrote comedies, farces, and...
Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler

male, deceased (1361)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300 - 15 June 1361) was a German mystic theologian. He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and was educated at the...
Frans Floris

Frans Floris

male, deceased (1570)
Frans Floris, or more correctly Frans de Vriendt, called Floris (1517 - October 1, 1570), Flemish painter, was one of a large family trained to the...

Luzzatto

male
Luzzatto or Luzzatti was a family of Italian-Jewish Talmudic scholars, whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth...
De Jussieu

De Jussieu

male
De Jussieu, the name of a French family which came into prominent notice towards the close of the sixteenth century, and for a century and a half...

Thomas Stevens

male, deceased (1550)
Thomas Stevens (or Stephens), Abbot of Netley Abbey and Beaulieu Abbey; (b. prob. c. 1490) (d. 1550) was an English renaissance clergyman and...