Paolo Sfondrati (1514-1587) was a Milanese senator and diplomat.

Paolo Sfondrati was born in 1514 to Francesco Sfondrati and Anna Visconti. The Sfondrati family were prominent politicians in Milan, and he followed his father into public service. Sfondrati was baron of Valsassina and count of Riviera, and married Sigismonda d'Este, daughter of the Marquis of S. Martino. They had six children, including Paolo Camillo, Ercole, and Francesco.

In Milan Sfondrati served as a senator, as well as a diplomat to the court of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. He also remained in contact with his brother, Niccolò, who would become pope Gregory XIV in 1590. Paolo Sfondrati died in Turin on April 23, 1587.

Carlo d'Aragona (1520-1599) was a governor and ruler in Italy.

Aragona was born in Palermo in 1520 to Giovanni Tagliavia, count of Catelvetrano, and Antonia de Aragon, daughter of the Duke of Terranova. He married Margherita Ventimiglia, of the prominent noble family of southern Italy. He became known as Magnus Siculus (the Great Sicilian), serving twice as viceroy of Sicily from 1556 to 1568, and from 1571 to 1577. He then was made viceroy of Catalonia (1581-1582) before being appointed as governor of the Duchy of Milan in 1583. He served in this role until 1592. Aragona died in Madrid in 1599.

François de Vergy (1530-1591) was a government official in Burgundy.

François de Vergy was born in 1530 to Guillaume de Vergy and Anne de Rochechouart. He served as gouverneur de Bourgogne under Phillip II beginning in 1560, and in 1574 was made Comté de Champlitte. He became Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1584. Vergy married twice, and had two sons and a daughter. He died in 1591.