Category
page 116th-century English people
Robert Catesby
English conspirator (died 1605)
Lambert Simnel
Imposter-pretender to the throne of England
Thomas Percy
English conspirator
Jack Ward
English pirate
Francis Tresham
English conspirator

John Carver
Mayflower passenger and New World colonist
William Brewster
religious leader and emigrant to Plymouth Colony, North America (1566-1644)
Thomas Parr
longevity claimant
Richard de la Pole
Pretender to the English crown
John Ratcliffe
Colonial governor of Virginia
Thomas Bates
Catholic executed for involvement in UK 1605 Gunpowder plot
Robert and Thomas Wintour
Members of the Gunpowder plot

Thomas Dudley
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576-1653)
Lord William Howard
English nobleman and antiquarian
John and Christopher Wright
members of the Gunpowder Plot
Robert Keyes
English criminal
George Somers
16th/17th-century English admiral
John Grant
member of the failed Gunpowder Plot
Gerard de Malynes
English merchant
Thomas Derrick
English executioner
Francis Tregian the Elder
British landowner
John Middleton
English giant commonly known as the Childe of Hale
Thomas Hobson
English keeper of a livery stable
Anne Vaux
Catholic recusant
Mathew Baker
English shipwright
Richard Percivale
English scholar
Peter Bales
English calligrapher
Francis Langley
theatre builder and theatrical producer
Francis Tregian the Younger
English musician
Henry Jenkins
British supercentenarian