Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian and central figure in the Protestant Reformation.
Pierre de la Ramée was a French humanist, philosopher, and mathematician who pioneered the development of modern logic and critical thinking.
Sir Philip Sidney was an influential Elizabethan poet, courtier, and soldier, renowned for his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella and his role in the Protestant cause.
Gustav II Adolf was a Swedish king whose military genius and modernizing reforms shaped the nation's Golden Age.