List of Renaissance humanists
The following is a list of Renaissance humanists, individuals whose careers threw light on the movement as a whole.
List
- Barlaam of Seminara
- Leontius Pilatus
- Francesco Petrarca
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Simon Atumano
- Francesc Eiximenis
- Coluccio Salutati
- Geert Groote
- Bernat Metge
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- George Gemistos Plethon
- Niccolò de' Niccoli
- Leonardo Bruni
- Guarino da Verona
- Vittorino da Feltre
- Poggio Bracciolini
- Cosimo de' Medici
- Tommaso Parentucelli (Pope Nicholas V)
- Peter, Duke of Coimbra
- Flavio Biondo
- Antonio Beccadelli
- George of Trebizond
- Giannozzo Manetti
- Francesco Filelfo
- Carlo Marsuppini
- Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana
- Gjon Gazulli
- Theodorus Gaza
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Bessarion
- Gregory of Sanok
- Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)
- John Vitéz
- Bartolomeo Facio
- Isotta Nogarola
- Wessel Gansfort
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Vespasiano da Bisticci
- Giovanni Pontano
- Julius Pomponius Laetus
- Niccolò Perotti
- Marsilio Ficino
- Janus Pannonius
- John Doget
- Antonio Bonfini
- Stefano Infessura
- Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
- Filippo Buonaccorsi
- Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara
- Antonio de Nebrija
- Martin Segon
- Rodolphus Agricola
- Lucio Marineo Siculo
- Janus Lascaris
- Juraj Šižgorić
- William Grocyn
- Aldus Manutius
- Yuriy Drohobych
- Marko Marulić
- Marin Barleti
- Johannes Stöffler
- Angelo Poliziano
- Johann Reuchlin
- Paulus Aemilius Veronensis
- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
- Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus
- Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
- Jacopo Sannazaro
- Conrad Celtes
- Džore Držić
- Johannes Trithemius
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Cassandra Fedele
- Hector Boece
- Laurentius Corvinus
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Marinus Becichemus Scodrensis
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Laura Cereta
- Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa
- Janus Parrhasius
- Pietro Bembo
- Polydore Vergil
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Alessandra Scala
- Thomas More
- Baldassare Castiglione
- Raphael Sanzio
- Bartolomé de las Casas
- Beatus Rhenanus
- Pieter Gillis
- Sigismund von Herberstein
- Macropedius
- Pietro Alcionio
- William Farel
- Alfonso de Valdés
- Joan Boscà i Almogàver
- Pietro Aretino
- Joan Lluís Vives i March
- François Rabelais
- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
- Philipp Melanchthon
- Pier Paolo Vergerio
- André de Resende
- Janus Cornarius
- Damião de Góis
- Giovanni della Casa
- George Buchanan
- Arnoldus Arlenius
- Michael Servetus
- Francesco Robortello
- Johannes Goropius Becanus
- Giovanni Valentino Gentile
- Łukasz Górnicki
- Étienne de La Boétie
- Giovan Battista Pigna Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works
- Michel de Montaigne
- Paul Skalich
- Alphonsus Ciacconius
- Justus Lipsius
- Giordano Bruno
- Fausto Veranzio
- Ignazio Cardini
- Thomas Reid
- David Hume of Godscroft
- Gian Vittorio Rossi Italian poet, philologist, and historian.