School of Athens
• Socrates
• Plato, Socrates’ follower
• Aristotle, Plato’s follower
• Pythagoras
• Euclid
• Diogenes
• Heraclitus
• Alexander the Great

• Others: Pericles, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides, Hippocrates, Phidias, Praxiteles

Renaissance Generation (1500)
• Michelangelo, Florence
• Leonardo da Vinci, Florence
• Niccolo Machiavelli, writer, advisor to Lorenzo
• Lorenzo the Magnificent or Lorenzo de’ Medici
• Pope Leo X, son of Lorenzo
• Raphael, painter, hired by Pope Leo X
• Martin Luther, monk in Germany go on to start the Protestant Reformation
• Henry VIII, England, Renaissance king, established Church of England (Anglican Church)
• Erasmus, Holland, writer
• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci, Florence