English playwright of the Jacobean era who famously collaborated with Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, and other significant contemporaries, Fletcher also worked with Shakespeare on Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) and Henry VIII (1613?). Fletcher is revered as one of the most influential and prolific dramatists of his time, his fame rivalling that of Shakespeare during their lives. Fletcher succeeded Shakespeare as the primary house playwright for the acting company the King's Men (known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men prior to 1603) following Shakespeare's death in 1616.

English poet and cleric, known as "Giles Fletcher, the Younger." Fletcher's most famous poem, Christ's Victory, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after Death, influenced Milton's Paradise Regained.

As Laird of Saltoun and a member of the Scottish Parliament, Fletcher became known for his political and historical writing.

Member of Parliament, of Tissington Hall. Father of William Fitzherbert, the first Baronet of Tissington.

French novelist, playwright, and journalist who was imprisoned during the French Revolution. His La Dot de Suzette, ou Histoire de Mme. de Senneterre was published in 1798, followed by Frédéric (1799) and Le divorce, le faux révolutionnaire, et l'héroïsme des femmes (1802). and

Sister to Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) was also respected as a novelist.

Half-brother to the novelists Henry Fielding and Sarah Fielding.

Though a productive playwright and author of political and social improvement tracts, Fielding is best remembered for his novels, including The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742), The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (1743), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), which constitutes one of the most important early landmarks in the development of the British novel, Amelia (1751), and An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741), a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela.

Veteran of Marlborough's wars and father of the novelists Henry Fielding and Sarah Fielding.

Italian military leader defending Florence against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Pope Clement VII during the Siege of Florence.