| BRONZINO | Agnolo ?, 16th-century painter whose works include Allegory of Happiness (8) |
| PALLADIO | Andrea ?, 16th-century Italian architect whose works include the Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore in Venice |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| MERCATOR | Gerardus ?, 16th-century Flemish cartographer and mathematician |
| LELY | Sir Peter, 17th Century painter whose works include Portrait of a Man Playing the Violin (4) |
| VERMEER | Jan, 17th Century painter whose works include The Glass of Wine and The Milkmaid (7) |
| MAES | Nicolaes, 17th Century painter whose works include Portrait of a Man in a Black Wig (4) |
| CALVIN | John ?, 16th-century theologian whose works include Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| CELLINI | Benvenuto ?, 16th-century Italian sculptor whose works include Perseus with the Head of Medusa |
| PHILLIP | John, 19th-century painter whose works include the oil Baptism In Scotland (7) |
| LORENZETTI | Ambrogio ?, Sienese painter whose works include the frescoes Allegory of Bad Government and Allegory of Good Government (10) |
| SARTO | Italian word for "tailor", which is the epithet of the Florentine painter Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca, whose frescos include The Journey of the Magi and The Nativity of the Virgin (5) |
| OTHMAYR | Caspar ?, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen (7) |
| VIGNOLA | Giacomo Barozzi da ?, 16th-century architect whose works include the Villa Farnese at Caprarola (7) |
| UDALL | Nicholas ?, 16th-century English playwright whose works include comedy Ralph Roister Doister (5) |
| SOUTHWELL | Robert ?, 16th-century English poet whose works include The Burning Babe |
| ANSARA | One of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer, whose films include The Pursuit of Happiness (1988), an allegory of the Australian-US political relationship? (6) |
| RIZZIO | David ?, 16th-century Italian musician and favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots (6) |
| GOUJON | Jean ?, 16th-century French sculptor and architect noted for his decorations of works by Pierre Lescot |
| TASSO | Torquato ?, 16th-century Italian author of epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (5) |