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Renaissance historical figures
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43 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor & scientist
William Shakespeare
Playwright & poet
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician & physicist
Elizabeth I
Queen of England
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Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor & printer
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Akbar
Mughal Emperor
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shogun & unifier of Japan
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
Queen of Ndongo and Matamba
Yi Sun-sin
Naval commander
Henry VIII
King of England
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer & physicist
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Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter & architect
Sandro Botticelli
Painter
René Descartes
Philosopher & mathematician
Vasco da Gama
Explorer & navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer & navigator
Christopher Columbus
Explorer & navigator
Gustav Vasa
King of Sweden
Suleiman the Magnificent
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Grace O'Malley
Irish chieftain and seafarer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
Voltaire
Writer and philosopher
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Microbiologist
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician and philosopher
John III Sobieski
King of Poland
Nur Jahan
Mughal empress
Niccolò Machiavelli
Political theorist and diplomat
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Girolamo Savonarola
Friar & political leader of Florence
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Cosimo de' Medici
Banker & de facto ruler of Florence
Lorenzo de' Medici
De facto ruler of Florence & patron of the arts
Cesare Borgia
Cardinal & military commander
Pope Julius II
Pope & patron of the arts
Filippo Brunelleschi
Architect & engineer
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Donatello
Sculptor
Raphael
Painter & architect
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Titian
Painter
Caravaggio
Painter
El Greco
Painter
Diego Velazquez
Painter
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Peter Paul Rubens
Painter & diplomat
Francysk Skaryna
Humanist, physician & printer
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