1549 in England - Births

Births

• 1540
  • 24 January - Edmund Campion, Jesuit and Roman Catholic martyr (died 1581)
  • c. February or March - Sir Francis Drake, explorer and soldier (died 1596)
  • 11 June - Barnabe Googe, poet (died 1594)
  • William Byrd, composer (died 1623)
  • Christopher Hatton, politician (died 1591)
  • George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, nobleman (died 1604)
  • Lettice Knollys, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I (died 1634)
  • Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (died 1614)
• 1541
  • Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, nobleman (died 1576)
• 1542
  • 6 June - Richard Grenville, soldier and explorer (died 1591)
• 1543
  • Thomas Deloney, novelist and balladeer (died 1600)
• 1544
  • April - Thomas Fleming, judge (died 1613)
  • 24 May - William Gilbert, scientist (died 1603)
  • Thomas Hobson, carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (died 1631)
  • George Whetstone, writer (died 1587)
• 1545
  • 2 March - Thomas Bodley, diplomat and library founder (died 1613)
  • John Field, Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)
  • John Gerard, botanist (died 1612)
  • Nicholas Breton, poet and novelist (died 1626)
  • Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (died 1608)
  • Sir Francis Drake Born
• 1546
  • 5 May - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (died 1623)
  • 24 June - Robert Parsons, Jesuit priest (died 1610)
  • Thomas Digges, astronomer (died 1595)
  • Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York (died 1628)
• 1547
  • Peter Bales, calligrapher (died 1610)
  • George Carey, Baron Hunsdon, politician (died 1603)
  • Richard Stanyhurst, translator of Virgil (died 1618)
• 1548
  • Edward Manners, Earl of Rutland (died 1587)
  • William Stanley, soldier (died 1630)
• 1549
  • 30 November - Sir Henry Savile, educator (died 1622)
  • John Rainolds, scholar and Bible translator (died 1607)