1st Earl of Clarendon and Baron Hyde of Hindon, Edward Hyde was an English aristocrat and politician known by his noble title of "Lord Cornbury." Hyde became a prominent political figure at the start of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Hyde's army shifted their loyalty from the Catholic King James II to his Protestant challenger William of Orange.

An English courtier, poet, and sheriff of Herefordshire, believed to be the son of Sir John Clanvowe.

An English diplomat, soldier and poet. He was born to a Marcher family originally of Welsh extraction. He himself was probably of mixed Anglo-Welsh origin. He held lands that lay in the present-day Radnorshire district of Powys and in Herefordshire. He was a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He was one of the "Lollard knights" (with supposedly heretical views) at the court of King Richard II. Clanvowe's best-known work was The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a 14th-century debate poem influenced by Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls.

A prominent French mathematician, astronomer, and translator.

French magistrate and friend of literary figures including Boileau, Molière, and Voltaire.

Living from 106-43 B.C.E., Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, Academic Skeptic, writer, and orator. Cicero's writings strove to uphold republican ideals toward the end of the civil wars which would destroy the Roman Republic.

Son of the successful actor, playwright, and theatre owner Colley Cibber and husband of popular tragic actress Susannah Cibber, Theophilus Cibber was an actor, author, and playwright whose limited abilities and scandalous private life earned him a poor reputation with the public. His memories of his theatrical career provide substantial if not always accurate content for his The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753).

Second wife to Theophilus Cibber and said to be the greatest actress of eighteenth century London, Susannah Cibber was known for her ability to emotionally move her audiences by both her expressive singing voice and her acting skills. At the time of her death, Susannah Cibber was the highest-paid actress in England.

Actor, playwright, and poet laureate after 1730, Cibber was especially known for his theatrical comedies, the most notable of which include She Would and She Would Not (1702) and The Careless Husband (1704). He was also the hero of Alexander Pope's Dunciad.

English poet, pamphleteer, courtier, protégé of the Earl of Surrey, and mercenary soldier. Churchyard's most notable work is his contribution to the collection A Mirror for Magistrates.