17th-century Roman Catholics

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)

Spanish dramatist (1600-1681)

17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700)

17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696)

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist

Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)

French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)

prince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1663-1736)

Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)

Queen Consort of France (1660-1683)

French prince (1640-1701)

English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer (1563–1626)

Italian painter (1535–1607)

Croatian baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa

Emperor of Ethiopia

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

English herbalist and botanist (1567-1650)

English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)

Italian physician noted for the discovery of the lacteal vessels of the lymphatic system

English conspirator

English engineer, explorer, cartographer (1574-1649)

English conspirator

English poet, playwright, and religious writer

Ethiopian Emperor

daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire

Italian mathematician and philosopher (1623-1697)

King of Dun na nGall

Italian-born French military officer, explorer, and fur trader

Italian artist (1624–1686)

Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary

engraver and painter (1553-1615)

Italian missionary

Brazilian soldier

French writer (1630–1692)

Abraham Bzowski (Bzovius) (1567–1637) was a Polish Dominican historian. He carried on the work of Baronius. The Catholic Encyclopedia calls his contributions for 1198 to 1571 "less notable" than some of other continuators, namely Raynaldus, Laderchi, and August Theiner.

Catholic executed for involvement in UK 1605 Gunpowder plot

French philosopher

Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller

English poet

English peer (1564-1619)

Members of the Gunpowder plot

English criminal

(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

British noble (1538-1612)

members of the Gunpowder Plot

English midwife

Last king of Jaffna

Italian jurist of religious law and historian of Greek origin

Dutch poet and playwright

Scottish nobleman

English conspirator

member of the failed Gunpowder Plot

Venetian aristocrat

German presbyter

Ming Dynasty empress dowager

British landowner