Artists
- El Greco -Cretan painter, Italy, Spain
- Marco Basaiti -painter
- Antonio Vassilacchi - painter from Milos worked in Venice with Paolo Veronese
- Michael Damaskenos -Venice, Cretan painter
- Francisco Leontaritis -Italy, Bavaria: singer and composer
- Anna Notaras -Venice, first Greek typing press
- Thomas Flanginis -Venice, funded the establishment of the Flanginian Greek school for teachers
- Angelos Pitzamanos (1467–1535) Cretan painter Otranto, South Italy
- Emmanuel Tzanes -Venice, Cretan painter
- Theodore Poulakis -Venice, painter
- John Rhosos -Rome, Venice well-known scribe
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