1547 births

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)

Spanish military leader (1547–1578)

novelist, writer

Austrian Archduchess, mother of Maria de' Medici (1547-1578)

Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar (1547-1606)

Polish noble (1547-1620)

Dutch statesman and revolutionary (1547-1619)

French princess

Count Palatine of Neuburg and Count Palatine of Sulzbach

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1547 to 1596

Iranian Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet

German philosopher (1547-1628)

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

was a female historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She is known primarily as the mother of three daughters who became prominent figures in their own right – Yodo-dono, Ohatsu and Oeyo. Oichi was the younger sister of Oda Nobunaga; and she was the sister-in-law of Nōhime, the daughter of Saitō Dōsan. She was descended from the Taira and Fujiwara clans.

Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, popularly known by his pen-name, Faizi (20 September 1547 – 15 October 1595) was a poet and scholar of late medieval India whose ancestors were the ''Malik-ush-Shu'ara'' (poet laureate) of Akbar's Court. He was the elder brother of Akbar's historian Abul Fazl. Akbar highly recognised the genius in him and appointed him tutor for his sons and gave place to him among his decorative 'Navaratnas'.

Frisian historian and geographer (1547–1625)

Swedish princess; daughter of Gustav I of Sweden and Margaret Leijonhufvud

Polish-Lithuanian noble, 1547-1603

Archbishop of Cologne (1547-1601)

Italian engraver (1547–1612)

Ruler of Wallachia

Italian painter (1547–1627)

Dutch writer

duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Mughal rebel

Austrian general

Italian noble, son of Cosimo I. de’ Medici

German monarch

accused in a witch trial & mother of Johannes Kepler

Italian composer

daimyo

Italian printer (1547-1597)

Italian painter (1547-1616)

Princess of Württemberg by birth, and by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (1547-1590)

German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer (1547-1590)

German poet and mystic

(1547-1616) Catholic cardinal

samurai

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1547-1603)

German noblewoman

16th-century Persian author and calligrapher

Spanish diplomat (1547-1623)

Italian engineer

wife of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese daimyo

Franco-Flemish composer

Japanese painter (1547-1618)

Devotee of Guruvayurappan

noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara

Italian cardinal

Venetian aristocrat

Irish writer

Dutch mayor (1547-1626)

Swedish noble (1547-1600)

German philosopher (1547-1606)

Spanish writer (1547-1610)

English calligrapher

Spanish Jesuit, missionary

German politician (1547-1616)

Belgian politician

French diplomat