and Member of Parliament Mar Eliyya IX, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (Patriarchate then based in Alqosh, in modern-day Iraq), held position in 1617–1660 John Endecott (1588?–1665), founder and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Alonso Fajardo de Entenza of Spain (?-1624), governor-general of the Philippines, in office 1618–1624 Francesco Erizzo of Venice (1566–1646), diplomat and future Doge of Venice Thomas van Erpe of the Netherlands (1584–1624), Orientalist Scholar Fakhr-al-Din II (1572–1635), Lebanese prince and governor of the Ottoman province of Syria, in office (as governor) 1624–1632 Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland of England (1580–1629), nobleman and statesman John Felton of England (1595–1628), soldier and assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Nicholas Felton of England (1556–1626), academic and Anglican cleric Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609–1641), nobleman, Spanish Prince (Infante), and Cardinal Ferdinand IV, Archduke of Austria (1608–1657), Habsburg Prince and future Holy Roman Emperor Domenico Fetti of Rome (1589–1623), painter Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1578–1622), Capuchin friar and Martyr William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele of England (1582–1662), nobleman and statesman Filaret (AKA Feodor Romanov) of Russia (1553–1633), Patriarch of Moscow and statesman, held position (as Patriarch) 1612–1629 John Fletcher of England (1579–1625), playwright John Ford of England (1586-1640?), playwright and poet Frederick of Denmark (1609–1670), Danish Prince and future King of Denmark and Norway Frederick V of the Palatinate/I of Bohemia (1596–1632), Prince-Elector of the Palatinate and King of Bohemia (a sub-state of the Holy Roman Empire), r. 1610–1623 (as Prince-Elector of the Palatinate) and r. 1619–1620 (as King of Bohemia) Frederick Ulrich (1591–1634), Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, held position 1613–1634 Galileo Galilei of Tuscany (1564–1642), astronomer and physicist Gang Hong-rip of Korea, treasonous general who aided the Manchus Gaston, Duke of Orléans of France (1608–1660), French Prince (brother of Louis XIII) and commander of the aristocratic revolt at Les Ponts-de-Cé Artemisia Gentileschi of Rome (1593–1656), painter George William (1595–1640), Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia Johann Gerhard (1582–1637), German Lutheran theologian Hessel Gerritsz of the Netherlands (1581–1632), cartographer Orlando Gibbons of England (1583–1625), composer and organist Thomas Goffe of England (1591–1629), playwright Luis de Góngora of Spain (1561–1627), poet, playwright, and writer Roque González (1576–1628), Spanish-American Jesuit missionary and martyr Sir Ferdinando Gorges of England (1565–1647), colonial entrepreneur in North America and founder of Maine Ivan Tarasievich Gramotin of Russia (?–1638), diplomat and head of the Posolsky Prikaz, held position 1619–1626