Guy Fawkes
1570 – 1606
English

Political figure. Faithful to Catholicism, he plotted against the government and was hanged.

Contemporaries
1588–1649John Winthrop
1585–1645Mary Ward
1593–1683Izaak Walton
1584–1656Myles Standish
1561–1595Robert Southwell
1584–1654John Selden
1592–1644Francis Quarles
1600–1669William Prynne
1504–1575Matthew Parker
1567–1601Thomas Nashe
1573–1645William Laud
1550–1603William Kempe
1591–1643Anne Hutchinson
1554–1600Richard Hooker
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1583–1648Edward Herbert
1578–1657William Harvey
1574–1656Joseph Hall
1574–1637Robert Fludd
1592–1637Nicholas Ferrar
1533–1603Elizabeth I
1540–1596Sir Francis Drake
c. 1572–1631John Donne
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1592–1676William Cavendish
1573–1605Robert Catesby
1575–1621John Carver
1540–1581St. Edmund Campion
1605–1682Sir Thomas Browne
1596–1679Praise-God Barebone
1576–1633William Ames