Luisa de Medrano

Luisa de Medrano (1484–1527), born into a noble family at Atienza, was one of the puellae doctae, the learned girls of Renaissance Spain. At the court of Queen Isabella I, she studied history and humanist philosophy alongside the royal children. She taught Latin at the University of Salamanca, taking the chair once held by Antonio de Nebrija; on 16 November 1508 the rector recorded her reading in the chair of Canons.

The humanist Lucio Marineo Siculo praised her public lectures on Latin letters. Her poems and philosophical writings have not survived, and she died in 1527.