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This page lists English people notable during the 16th century.
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Subcategories
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
C
- Husbands of Catherine Parr (4 P)
- Court of Elizabeth I (97 P)
- Court of Mary I of England (39 P)
E
H
- English Renaissance humanists (37 P)
J
- 16th-century English Jews (2 P)
M
- Marian exiles (48 P)
R
- People of the Roanoke Colony (7 P)
W
Pages in category "16th-century English people"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 601 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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B
- Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)
- William Baddell
- William Baffin
- Thomas Bagard
- Mathew Baker (shipwright)
- Thomas Baldwin (comptroller)
- Philip Bale
- Peter Bales
- Thomas Bank
- John Barly
- Robert Barnes (martyr)
- William Barnes (died 1559)
- Richard Barningham
- Thomas Basseden
- John Basset (1462–1528)
- John Basset (1518–1541)
- Thomas Bates
- Andrew Battel
- Richard Bayfield
- Roger Baynes
- John Bearblock
- Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet
- Henry Becher
- Arthur Bedell
- Richard Bedell
- Edmund Bedingfield
- Thomas Belchiam
- Richard Bellewe
- Alexander Belsyre
- Robert Benet
- Thomas Benet (martyr)
- Thomas Benger
- John Berde (MP for Hythe)
- Humphrey Berisford
- Richard Berkeley (died 1604)
- Thomas Berkeley (1575–1611)
- Philip Bernard (MP)
- John Bery
- Andrew Bing
- George Birch (mayor)
- Thomas Birchet
- John Blackaller
- Thomas Blagrave
- John Blundell (MP)
- John Bolde
- James Boleyn
- James Bonde
- Stephen Borough
- Gregory Botolf
- William Bourbank
- George Bowes (prospector)
- Robert Brandon
- Reginald Bray
- John Bredes
- Nicholas Brend
- Thomas Brend
- William Brereton (courtier)
- William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
- Edward Bridgeman
- Richard Brinkley (16th century)
- Margaret Bromley
- Giles Brook
- George Brooke (MP)
- George Brooke alias Cobham
- Anthony Browne (1552–1592)
- Anthony Browne (died 1506)
- Matthew Browne
- Francis Bulstrode
C
- William Calley (MP)
- Walter Calverley
- Canterbury Martyrs
- Captain Cox
- William Carden (MP)
- Eleanor Carey
- Robert Carr (MP for Boston)
- John Carver (Plymouth Colony governor)
- Robert Catesby
- Cattelena
- Geoffrey Chamber
- Richard Chancellor
- Richard Chapman (shipwright)
- Nicholas Charles
- Thomas Cheyne (MP for Rye)
- Mary Cholmondeley (heiress)
- William Clerk (administrator)
- William Clopton
- Clement Cobbe
- Richard Cocks
- William Coffin (courtier)
- Colchester Martyrs
- Humfray Cole
- John Collins (died 1597)
- John Colman
- Nicolás Colman
- Philippa Coningsby
- Robert Constable
- John Cook (fl.1542)
- Robert Cooke (officer of arms)
- Henry Cornwallis (MP for Orford)
- Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington
- William Courtenay (1451–1512)
- Edward Crome
- Charles Cutler (English MP)
D
- Thomas Dallam
- William Dalmyngton
- Lawrence Dalton
- Adam Damlip
- Audley Dannett
- Thomas Dannett
- Richard Daper
- Virginia Dare
- John Davis (explorer)
- William Denys
- Francis Dereham
- Thomas Derrick
- Gilbert Dethick
- Humphrey Dethick
- Everard Digby
- Thomas Dingley
- Wolstan Dixie (born 1576)
- Thomas Docwra
- William Dodington (MP for Penryn and Boston)
- John Donning
- Robert Dover (Cotswold Games)
- Edmund Downing
- Bernard Drake
- Philip Draycott
- Thomas Drury (1551–1603)
- Arthur Dudley
- Thomas Dudley
- Piers Dutton
- Robert Dymoke
E
F
- Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)
- Thomas Fairfax (Walton)
- Thomas Fairfax, 1st Viscount Fairfax
- Henry Fane (died 1596)
- Thomas Fane (died 1589)
- Francisco Felipe
- John Felton (martyr)
- Mary Fiennes (lady-in-waiting)
- John Finet
- Edward Fitzgerald (1529-90)
- Nicholas Fitzherbert
- Edmund Fletcher
- Thomas Fletcher (MP)
- William Flower (officer of arms)
- John Forest
- Anthony Fortescue
- Dudley Fortescue (MP for Sudbury)
- Nicholas Fortescue the Elder
- George Foster (MP)
- William Fowkes
- Mary Tudor, Queen of France
- Jacques Francis
- Edward Fuller (Mayflower passenger)
- William Fyeneux
- Mark Fytton
G
- William Galeon
- Thomas Gargrave
- Christopher Garneys
- Anthony Gawdy
- Henry Gaymer
- John Gennings
- Thomas Gerrard
- Gilbert Gifford
- Bartholomew Gilbert
- Edward Glemham
- Robert Glover (martyr)
- Thomas Goodrich
- Thomas Gorges
- Richie Graham
- John Grant (Gunpowder Plot)
- Thomas Grantham (died 1630)
- Bartholomew Green (martyr)
- Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet
- Robert Grissold
- Edward Guildford
- Thomas Guildford