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Will Adams
1564 – 1620
English

A seaman working for the Dutch. One of first Europeans in Japan, he was initially jailed but became a shipbuilder and samurai.

Contemporaries
1588–1649John Winthrop
1609–1683Benjamin Whichcote
1585–1645Mary Ward
1593–1683Izaak Walton
1613–1662Sir Henry Vane
1508–1568William Turner
1584–1656Myles Standish
1561–1595Robert Southwell
?–1567Lawrence Sheriff
1564–1616William Shakespeare
1584–1654John Selden
1552–1618Sir Walter Raleigh
1592–1644Francis Quarles
1600–1669William Prynne
1504–1575Matthew Parker
1567–1601Thomas Nashe
1614–1687Henry More
1608–1674John Milton
1614–1657John Lilburne
1573–1645William Laud
1550–1603William Kempe
1591–1643Anne Hutchinson
1554–1600Richard Hooker
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1583–1648Edward Herbert
1578–1657William Harvey
1609–1676Sir Matthew Hale
1574–1656Joseph Hall
1552–1616Richard Hakluyt
1574–1637Robert Fludd
1592–1637Nicholas Ferrar
1570–1606Guy Fawkes
1620–1706John Evelyn
1533–1603Elizabeth I
1540–1596Sir Francis Drake
c. 1572–1631John Donne
1617–1688Ralph Cudworth
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1592–1676William Cavendish
1573–1605Robert Catesby
1575–1621John Carver
1540–1581St. Edmund Campion
1605–1682Sir Thomas Browne
1545–1613Sir Thomas Bodley
1615–1691Richard Baxter
1596–1679Praise-God Barebone
1576–1633William Ames