This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.

Political leaders

• Italian Renaissance
  • Leonardo Bruni
  • Isabella d'Este
  • Francesco Foscari
  • Cosimo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici (a.k.a. Lorenzo il Magnifico)
  • Coluccio Salutati
  • Francesco Sforza

• Northern European Renaissance
  • Francis I of France
  • Henry VIII of England
  • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Religious figures

• Pope Nicholas V
• Pope Pius II
• Pope Sixtus IV
• Pope Alexander VI
• Pope Julius II
• Pope Leo X
• Girolamo Savonarola
• Martin Luther

Authors

• Andrea Alciato
• Ludovico Ariosto
• Leonardo Bruni
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Erasmus
• Jan Kochanowski
• Michel de Montaigne
• Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca
• Baldassare Castiglione
• Coluccio Salutati
• François Rabelais
• William Shakespeare
• Thomas More

Artists

• Leon Battista Alberti
• Fra Angelico
• Giotto di Bondone
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Sandro Botticelli
• Donato Bramante
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• Pieter Brueghel the Younger
• Jan Brueghel the Elder
• Jan Brueghel the Younger
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Donatello
• Albrecht Dürer
• Lorenzo Ghiberti
• Michelangelo
• Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Jan van Eyck
• Rogier van der Weyden

Scientists

• Tycho Brahe
• Copernicus
• Johannes Kepler
• Paracelsus
• Benedetto Castelli
• Giovanni Borelli

Philosophers

• Nicholas of Cusa
• Marsilio Ficino
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Francesco Guicciardini
• Galileo Galilei
• Giordano Bruno

Composers

• Josquin Des Prez
• Guillaume Dufay
• Giovanni Gabrieli
• Orlandus Lassus (also known as Orlando di Lasso)
• Johannes Ockeghem
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Thomas Tallis
• Tomas Luis de Victoria
• Vincenzo Galilei

Dancemasters

• Domenico da Piacenza
• Fabritio Caroso
• Thoinot Arbeau