| A | B |
| Durer | German artist known for his lifelike engravings |
| Michelangelo | Painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo | Known as the Ideal Renaissance Man |
| Elizabeth I | English Queen sponsored sea expeditions |
| Shakespeare | Famous playwright, wrote 38 plays, understood human behavior |
| Cervantes | Gifted writer, talent for satire (comedy), wrote Don Quixote |
| Isabella I | Patron of the arts, sponsored sea voyages, united Spain as a country |
| Andreas Vesalius | Known as the father of human anatomy |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | developed theory that the Earth went around the Sun |
| Titian | Known for his lively brushstrokes and color in his paintings |
| Dante | Wrote the Divine Comedy which is about the afterlife |
| Printing Press | made the development of books cheaper and faster |
| Gutenberg | Invented a metal/movable printing press |
| Brunelleschi | Built the first Dome in Florence since the fall of Rome |
| Machiavelli | Wrote the Prince which is about how government and politics really work |