16th-century poets

Vincenzo Cartari (c.1531–1569) was an Italian mythographer and diplomat of the Italian Renaissance.

Cho Shik (July 10, 1501 – February 21, 1572) was a Korean Joseon Dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar, educator, and poet.

Fernando de Herrera (~1534–1597), called "El Divino", was a 16th-century Spanish poet and man of letters.

Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.

George Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.

Georg Fabricius (23 April 1516 – 17 July 1571), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin on age of German Renaissance.

Danese Cattaneo (c1512? - 1572) was an Italian sculptor and medallist, active mainly in the Veneto Region.

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 - c. 1581) was an influential Polish poet of the late Renaissance who wrote in both Polish and Latin.

Juraj Baraković (1548 – August 1, 1628) was a Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar.

Petar Zoranić (1508 – after 1569) was a Croatian Renaissance writer and poet from Zadar.

Thomas Murner, OFM (24 December 1475-c. 1537) was a German satirist, poet and translator.

Benedetto Varchi (Italian pronunciation: [beneˈdetto ˈvarki]; 1502/1503 - 1565) was an Italian humanist, a historian and poet.

Saint John of the Cross (Spanish: San Juan de la Cruz; 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.

Louise Labé, (c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – 25 April 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a female French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.

Étienne Tabourot, seigneur des Accords, also called Tabourot des Accords or Seigneur des Accords (1549–1590) was a French jurist, writer and poet of the Renaissance.

Jiva Goswami (Sanskrit: जीव गोस्वामी, Jīva Gosvāmī; c. 1513 – 1598) is one of the most prolific and important philosopher and saint from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Vedanta tradition, producing a great number of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines.

Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician.

Cristóbal de Virués (1550–1614) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo urˈtaðo ðe menˈdoθa]; 1503 – 14 August 1575), Spanish novelist, poet, diplomat and historian, governor of Granada, was born in that city in 1503.

Chidiock Tichborne (after 24 August 1562 – 20 September 1586), erroneously referred to as Charles, was an English conspirator and poet.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.

Johannes Dantiscus, (German: Johann(es) von Höfen-Flachsbinder, Polish: Jan Dantyszek; 1 October 1485 – 27 October 1548) was prince-bishop of Warmia and Bishop of Chełmno (Culm).

Shaikh Abu al-Fazal ibn Mubarak (Persian: ابو الفضل‎‎) also known as Abu'l-Fazl, Abu'l Fadl and Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami (1551 – 12 August 1602) was the vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign in three volumes, (the third volume is known as the Ain-i-Akbari)and a Persian translation of the Bible.

Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November 1511 – 25 September 1536) was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

Henry Petowe (1575/6–1636?) was a minor Elizabethan poet, best known today, perhaps, for "The Second Part of Hero and Leander, Containing their Further Fortunes," his sequel to Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander.

Joannes Bochius, sometimes Jan Boghe or Jean Boch (1555–1609) was a civic officeholder and neo-Latin poet in the city of Antwerp.

Leon De Meyere (died 28 December 1630) was a poet from Antwerp about whom very little is known.

Emrānī (or Imrānī; 1454–1536) was a Judæo-Persian poet, being "one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran".

Zechariah (Yaḥya) al-Ḍāhirī (Hebrew: זכריה אלצ'אהרי‎‎, pronounced [zekharˈyah al-dhahˈiri]; often spelled Zechariah al-Dhahiri (Arabic: زكريا الضاهري‎‎); the son of Saʻīd (Saʻadia) al-Ḍāhirī, from Kawkaban, in the District of al-Mahwit, Yemen, a place north-west of Sana’a, b. circa 1531 – d. 1608) was a Yemenite Jewish poet and rabbinic scholar of the 16th century who left Yemen in search of a better livelihood and who traveled to Calicut and Cochin in India, Hormuz in Persia, Basra and Irbīl in Babylonia, Bursa and Istanbul in Turkey, Rome in Italy, Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, Safed and Tiberius, as well as Jerusalem and Hebron in the Land of Israel, Sidon in Lebanon and Egypt, and finally unto Abyssinia where he returned to Yemen by crossing the Erythraean Sea and alighting at a port c