John Taverner Tomás Luis de Victoria Adrian Willaert Carlo Gesualdo Dancing masters Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx Antonio Cornazzano Domenico da Piacenza Fabritio Caroso Thoinot Arbeau Cesare Negri Explorers and navigators Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Núñez de Balboa Gonçalo Álvares John Cabot Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Gaspar Corte-Real Hernán Cortés Bartolomeu Dias Diogo Dias Sir Francis Drake Juan Sebastián Elcano Vasco da Gama Prince Henry Willem Janszoon Ferdinand Magellan Gerardus Mercator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco Pizarro Marco Polo Juan Ponce de Leon Abel Tasman Giovanni da Verrazzano João Gonçalves Zarco Humanists Leon Battista Alberti Thomas Blundeville Giovanni Boccaccio Poggio Bracciolini Leonardo Bruni Johannes Cuspinian Erasmus Thomas More Matteo Palmieri Giovanni Pico della Mirandola François Rabelais Petrus Ramus Coluccio Salutati Andreas Stöberl Georg Tannstetter Juan Luis Vives Jan Campanus Vodňanský Other influential people Francis I of France Henry VIII John Calvin Johannes Gutenberg Elizabeth I Pope Julius II Martin Luther The Medici Lorenzo de' Medici Jakob Fugger Paracelsus Girolamo Savonarola Taccola Giorgio Vasari Andreas Vesalius Conrad Gessner See also List of Renaissance structures Index of Renaissance articles References Lists of Renaissance people