16th-century Protestant martyrs

Lawrence Saunders (1519 – February 8, 1555) was an English Protestant martyr whose story is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Richard Atkins (1559?–1581), was an English Protestant martyr.

Adolf Clarenbach (or Klarenbach) (circa 1497 – 28 September 1529), burnt at the stake in Cologne, died as one of the first Protestant martyrs of the Reformation in the Lower Rhine region in Germany.

Robert Barnes (c. 1495 – 30 July 1540) was an English reformer and martyr.

Jörg vom Haus Jacob (Georg Cajacob, or George of the House of Jacob), commonly known as George Blaurock (c. 1491 – September 6, 1529), with Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz, was co-founder of the Swiss Brethren in Zürich, and thereby one of the founders of Anabaptism.

Felix Manz (also Felix Mantz) (c. 1498 – 5 January 1527) was a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and the first martyr of the Radical Reformation.

The Perth Martyrs were six people executed in Perth, Scotland in 1543 for their Protestant beliefs.

Margaret Polley (died 1555) was an English Protestant martyr from Popingberry, Rochester, Kent.

Jan Jansz de Bakker van Woerden (Latin name: Johannes Pistorius Woerdensis; 1499 – 15 September 1525) was a Roman Catholic priest who was the first preacher in the Northern Netherlands to be put to death as a direct result of his Protestant beliefs.

John Greenwood (died 6 April 1593) was an English Puritan divine and separatist.

Anne Askew (née Ayscough , Ascue; married name Anne Kyme; 1521 – 16 July 1546) was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic in England in the reign of King Henry VIII.

John Hooper, Johan Hoper, (ca. 1495-1500 – 9 February 1555) was an English churchman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester.

The Windsor Martyrs were 16th-century English Protestants martyred at Windsor in Berkshire.

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I.

Peter Fliesteden (date of birth unknown; died 28 September 1529) was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Melaten near Cologne, as one of the first Protestant martyrs of the Reformation on the Lower Rhine in Germany.

John Rogers (c. 1505 – 4 February 1555) was a clergyman, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.

Klaus Hottinger was a shoemaker born in Zollikon.

Ludwig Haetzer (also Ludwig Hetzer, Ludwig Hätzer and sometimes Ludwig Hatzer) (1500 – 4 February 1529) was an Anabaptist.

Michael Sattler (1495 – 20 May 1527) was a monk who left the Roman Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation to become one of the early leaders of the Anabaptist movement.

Anthony Pearson (or Pierson) was a 16th-century English Protestant who was executed for heresy during the reign of King Henry VIII of England.

Hugh Latimer (c. 1487 – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI.

John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St.

Jacob Palaeologus, born Giacomo da Chio (c. 1520 – March 23, 1585) was a Dominican friar who renounced his religious vows and became an antitrinitarian theologian.

John Penry (1559 – 29 May 1593) is Wales's most famous Protestant martyr.

William Pygot was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr.

Robert Testwood of London was an English Protestant martyr during the reign of Henry VIII, one of the Windsor Martyrs.

Rowland Taylor (sometimes spelled "Tayler") (6 October 1510 – 9 February 1555) was an English Protestant martyr during the Marian Persecutions.

Leonhard Schiemer (c. 1500 – 14 January 1528) was an early pacifist Anabaptist writer and martyr whose work survives in the Ausbund.

Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval (c. 1500–1560) was a French nobleman and adventurer who, through his friendship with King Francis, became the first Lieutenant General of New France.

Joan Waste (1534 – 1 August 1556) was a blind woman who was burned in Derby for refusing to renounce her Protestant faith.

John Frith (1503 – 4 July 1533) was an English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr.

Christopher Wade (died 1555) was an English Protestant martyr.

John Lambert (died 1538) was an English Protestant martyr burnt to death on 22 November 1538 at Smithfield, London.

Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom – December 23, 1559, Paris) was a French magistrat, nephew of the chancellor Antoine du Bourg.

Aonio Paleario (c. 1500 – July 3, 1570) was an Italian humanist and reformer.

Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500–16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster").