| A | B |
| Erasmus | Humanist scholar and writer |
| Thomas More | Wrote about the ideal society - Utopia |
| Petrarch | Poet - Sonnets to Laura |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Artist and inventor - the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper |
| Michaelangelo | Artist and Scultor - Sistine Chapel Ceiling |
| Machiavelli | Writer of advice to a ruler - The Prince |
| Gutenberg | inventor of the printing press |
| Shakespeare | tragedies and comedies for common people |
| John Wycliff | Church reformer - translated bible into English |
| Jan Hus | Martyred Church reformer in Prague |
| Martin Luther | Church reformer - protestantism |