Notable Recipients
- Palla Strozzi (1372–1462) Florentine noble who was a banker, politician, literate, philosopher and philologist
- Heinrich von Olnhausen Conferred in 1388 at Jerusalem as knight of the holy crusade.
- Diego García de Paredes (1466–1534), Spanish soldier
- Raphael (1483–1520), artist
- Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), with the collar and the eagle of gold (conferred upon him by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor)
- Titian, artist, conferred by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1533
- Baccio Bandinelli (1493–1560), conferred by Charles V
- Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer
- Orlande de Lassus, composer, conferred by Pope Gregory XIII
- Pomponio Nenna (1556–1613), composer, conferred by Charles V in 1530
- Ventura Salimbeni (1568–1613), Sienese Mannerist painter and printmaker
- Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini (1571–1627), Italian Cardinal and uncle of Pope Gregory XIV
- Nicholas Plunkett (1602–1680), Irish lawyer and Confederate leader
- Antonio Latini (1642–1692),steward to Cardinal Antonio Barberini, cardinal-nephew of Pope Urban VIII
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German classical composer
- Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (c. 1716–1799), Italian sculptor
- Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), adventurer
- Giovanni Gallini (1729–1805), dancer and impresario in London 1760–1800
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), classical composer, at the age of fourteen
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), Shah of Iran
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