Category
page 1English courtiers
Walter Raleigh
English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)
Philip Sidney
English poet, courtier, diplomat (1554-1586)

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I (1532-1588)
Walter Map
Welsh medieval writer
John Harington
English courtier, Queens godson and author
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
English polymath and aristocrat (1592-1676)
Kenelm Digby
English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
English aristocrat and courtier (1540-1614)

Henry Norris
accused of treason and adultery with Anne Boleyn
William Cavendish
English courtier (1505-1557)
William Compton
English courtier at the court of Henry VIII of England (1482-1528)
William Stafford
English politician and courtier (1500-1556) of Chebsey, Staffordshire
Lillias Hamilton
British medical doctor, writer, educator (1858–1925)
Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine
English courtier, diplomat, and politician

Richard Cecil
English courtier and high sheriff of Rutland
Will Sommers
court jester of Henry VIII of England
David Cecil
English politician (c.1460-1641)
Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross
British politician and noble
Edmund Tylney
English courtier
Sidney Greville
British civil servant and courtier (1866–1927)
Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos
English courtier