Teniers was the most famous in a family of celebrated Flemish painters that included his father, David Teniers the Elder (1582–1649), himself, David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), his son, David Teniers III (1638–1685), and a much less well known grandson, David Teniers IV. Teniers the Younger specialized in depictions, often comic, of Flemish peasantry. He was related by marriage to the Bruegel family of painters.

Anglo-Irish whig politician and 1st Viscount Palmerston of East Sheen, Surrey, and Broadlands in Hampshire.

Spanish politician, soldier, and aristocrat holding the titles of Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, Spanish Viceroy of Naples, 7th Count of Ureña, 2nd Marquis of Peñafiel, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Grandee of Spain, and member of the Spanish Supreme Council of War. Téllez Girón was deposed in 1620 following accusations that he took part in a conspiracy to seize Venice. Alternatively, the Neapolitan aristocracy alleged that he intended to cut ties with Spain and become King of Naples. Téllez Girón denied all charges and died in prison before judgment was delivered.

In Homer's The Odyssey, the son of Odysseus.

Author of The Great Exemplar (1649) and Cases of Conscience (1671).

Emily Taylor was born into a family of notable Unitarians including an uncle, the hymnist John Taylor of Norwich and a great-grandfather, Dr John Taylor, a Hebrew scholar. Her brother, the solicitor Edgar Taylor (1793-1839), was an author and translator especially noted for his rendering of work by the Brothers Grimm. Scarlet fever at age 7 left Emily Taylor partially deaf. Despite this obstacle, she operated a school, assisted by Sarah Ann Glover (1786-1867), a musical theorist with notable work in a cappella singing.

Playwright and librettist known more for adaptations than for original compositions, he became poet laureate in 1692.

The Italian poet whose La Gierusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) dates from 1581 also garnered much sympathy among later readers for his long confinement to a mental asylum. Rinaldo (1562), his first publication, is an epic poem. Aminta, written in 1573 and published in 1591, and Torrismondo (1586) are dramas. His shorter poems include many odes and love sonnets. He authored criticism as well, especially Discorsi dell'arte poetica (1587) and Discorsi del poema erico (1594).

Known as "Tamerlane" in English, Timur Lenk was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire around modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and central Asia. Timur is remembered for his military prowess as well as the barbarity of his conquests. His life has been memorialized in numerous plays, operas, films, and poems, perhaps most notably in Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane (1701), Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II (1563-1594), Edgar Allan Poe's "Tamerlane" (1827), Antonio Vivaldi's Bajazet (1735), and George Frideric Handel's Tamerlano (1724). .

English lawyer, polititian, and patron of the arts who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737.