Walter Raleigh

1554–1618

English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)

writer · poet · sailor

Born in Hayes Barton

Contemporaries

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• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

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