List of Notable Foreigners in Seventeenth Century Ayutthaya
- Constantine Phaulkon, Greek Adventurer and First Councillor of King Narai
- François-Timoléon de Choisy
- Father Guy Tachard, French Jesuit Writer and Siamese Ambassador to France (1688)
- Louis Laneau, Apostolic Vicar of Siam
- Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer who became the ruler of the Nakhon Si Thammarat province
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