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Flemish painter (1526–1569)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
Read biography ↗5th-century BC Greek lyric poet
Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.
Read biography ↗Pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464.
Read biography ↗4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition.
Read biography ↗Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)
Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
Read biography ↗Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Read biography ↗Roman lawyer, author and magistrate (61 – c.113)
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known in English as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
Read biography ↗Hellenistic Platonist philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism (c. 204/5–270)
Plotinus was an ancient Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt.
Read biography ↗Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)
Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
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