Cardinal, Bishop of Winchester, and grandson to King Edward III, Beaufort was influential in English politics for many years.

Living from 1670-1726, Charles Beauclerk was the 1st Duke of St. Albans as the illegitimate son of King Charles II and actress Nell Gwyn.

Scottish poet and philosopher. His best known work, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770) was both successful and influential. His poem The Minstrel (1771-1774) details the natural education of a young shepherd who eventually attains poetic genius. He published a number of other philosophical, theological, and linguistic works, several collections of poems, and, in 1778, a collection entitled Essays on Poetry and Music As They Affect the Mind.

Also known as "The Thunderbolt," Bayezid I was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389–1402. Bayezid I founded what would become the first centralized Ottoman state grounded in traditional Muslim and Turkish institutions. Bayezid was captured by Timur at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and died in captivity the following year. The Ottoman Interregnum was triggered as a result of Bayezid's death.

English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons and an aquaintance of Alexander Pope.

A member of Jesus's Twelve Apostles. He is referred to as Nathanael in the Fourth Gospel of the New Testament. Stories of his martyrdom describe two methods; in one, he was flayed alive. This version is featured in works by several prominent artists, including Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Ribera.

Popular Irish actor and founder of Crow Street Theatre, a contemporary of David Garrick who challenged Garrick's position as the foremost actor of the era.

Friend of William Collins and John Home. In The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745 (1802), Home tells of how Barrow, an Englishman but then a student at Edinburgh, escaped with Home and others from the Castle of Doune after the Battle of Falkirk (1746).

His Argenis (1621) was a very popular romance narrative poem.

Poet, chaplain of the Church of England, and later Benedictine monk, Barclay is best remembered for his work The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde, a translation of the German satire Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant.