16th-century French male writers

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

French poet (1524-1585)

French judge, writer and philosopher

French jurist, witchcraft theorist and political philosopher (1529 or 1530–1596)

French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)

French surgeon

French poet, critic, and translator (1555–1628)

French historian (1540-1609)

French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar (1519-1605)

French scholar, humanist and administrator (1467-1540)

French theologian and humanist (1450 ca.-1536/1538)

French writer (1568-1625)

French philosopher

French theologian and philosopher

French writer (1532-1589)

French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)

French dramatist and poet

French writer (1513–1593)

16th century French printer and classical scholar

French evangelist

French tragic poet

French writer

French economist and dramatist

French writer

Humanist, Poet, Mathematician

French dance manual author and priest (1520-1595)

French jurisconsult

French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance (1530–1583)

French anatomist, printer, agronomist (1504-1564)

French lawyer (1529-1615)

French lawyer and scholar (1539-1596)

French mathematician

French writer

French writer

French historian (1553-1617)

French philosopher

French bishop, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII

French poet

French dramatist

medieval French writer

French dramatist and poet (1576-1666)

Huguenot theologian

French diarist and writer (1546–1611)

French historian

French botanist (1474-1537)

French dramatist 1540-1619

French politician

French official, historian and antiquary (1530–1602)

Navigator, explorer and corsair

French writer, poet, historian and dramatist (1563-1621)

French archbishop and author (1450-1520)

French historian

French Benedictine exegete, orientalist and archbishop (1535-1597)

French cleric

French poet

French jurist and writer

16th century physician and historian