Who was alive in 1500?

1,091 well-known people were alive in 1500, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther. Here are the 80 most notable:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Michelangelo (1475–1564) — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
Martin Luther (1483–1546) — German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) — Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) — Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) — Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
Raphael (1483–1520) — Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
Vasco da Gama (1460–1525) — Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) — Spanish conquistador
Jacques Cartier (1492–1557) — Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566) — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
Erasmus (1466–1536) — Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
Mimar Sinan (1490–1588) — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
François Rabelais (1494–1553) — 16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
Thomas More (1478–1535) — English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
Charles V (1500–1558) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) — King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
Américo Vespucio (1454–1512) — Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) — Italian painter (1445–1510)
Babur (1483–1531) — founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
Titian (1490–1576) — Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
Guru Nanak (1469–1539) — First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) — Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
Paracelsus (1493–1541) — Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) — queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
Alexander VI (1431–1503) — pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) — Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
Julius II (1443–1513) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513 (1443–1513)
Paul III (1468–1549) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
Leo X (1475–1521) — pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) — Italian poet (1474–1533)
Francis I of France (1494–1547) — King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)
Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) — Dutch painter (c. 1450–1516)
Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516) — King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
Selim I (1470–1520) — 9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
Francisco Pizarro (1478–1541) — Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
Adrian VI (1459–1523) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523)
Fuzuli (1480–1556) — 16th-century Azerbaijani poet
Pius IV (1499–1565) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565
Clement VII (1478–1534) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536) — first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)
Henry VII of England (1457–1509) — King of England from 1485 to 1509
Ismail I (1487–1524) — founder and first shah of Safavid Iran
Louis XII of France (1462–1515) — King of France from 1498 to 1515
Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467–1520) — Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
Paul IV (1476–1559) — pope of catholic church 1555-1559
Julius III (1487–1555) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555
Maximilian I (1459–1519) — Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) — German reformer (1497-1560)
Pius III (1439–1503) — pope of the Catholic Church from 22 September to 18 October 1503
Bartolomeu Dias (1467–1500) — Portuguese explorer
Selim i (1447–1512) — the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) — Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480-1519)
Donato Bramante (1444–1514) — Italian architect and painter (1444–1514)
Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478–1546) — Turkish admiral (1478–1546)
Giovanni Bellini (1430–1516) — 15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)
Ivan III of Moscow (1440–1505) — Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
Juana I of Castile (1479–1555) — Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516
Gustav I of Sweden (1496–1560) — King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560
Luca Pacioli (1440–1517) — Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501) — Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) — German artist and printmaker (1497–1543)
Hernando de Soto (1500–1542) — Spanish explorer and conquistador
Atahualpa (1500–1533) — Last Incan emperor
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) — Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506)
Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) — Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566) — Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
Margaret of Valois-Angoulême (1492–1549) — queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)
Moctezuma II (1466–1520) — 9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)
Giorgione (1478–1510) — Venetian Renaissance painter (1478–1510)
Pietro Perugino (1448–1523) — Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523)
Cesare Borgia (1475–1507) — Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) — Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)
Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521) — Spanish explorer and conquistador
Juan Sebastián Elcano (1486–1526) — Castillian Basque sailor, explorer, and circumnavigator with the Magellan Expedition
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) — 15th century Indian Vaishnavite saint
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) — leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury
Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) — German mineralogist (1494-1555)

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