Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino: master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi:an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance.

Michelangelo:an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci:an:Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.

Jan Van Eyck::a skilled painter that pioneered oil painting

William Shakespeare:an English writer that is sometimes considered the greatest writer in the English language.

Niccolò Machiavelli:an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer.

Miguel de Cervantes :a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

Desiderius Erasmus:a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.

Johann Gutenberg:developed a printing press that used movable type.

Albrecht Durer:a famous German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.