16th Century
- Nicholas Udall (1504–1556), playwright
- Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616), travel writer
- William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet
- Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
- Arthur Dee (1579–1651), physician
- Richard Corbet (1582–1635), poet
- Sir Richard Lane (1584–1650), Chief Baron of the Exchequer
- Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet
- Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard 1654 – 72
- Henry King (1592–1669), poet
- George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
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