Cardinals created by Paul III

Pope Paul III (r. 1534–1549) created 71 cardinals in twelve consistories.

1. Alessandro Farnese, iuniore
2. Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora

1. Nikolaus von Schönberg
2. Girolamo Ghinucci
3. Giacomo Simoneta
4. John Fisher
5. Jean du Bellay
6. Gasparo Contarini
7. Marino Caracciolo

Desiderius Erasmus was offered a cardinal's hat, but he declined.^{[citation needed]}

1. Gian Pietro Carafa
2. Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
3. Ennio Filonardi
4. Jacopo Sadoleto
5. Cristoforo Giacobazzi
6. Charles de Hémard de Denonville
7. Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
8. Reginald Pole
9. Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós
10. Girolamo Aleandro (created in pectore)
11. Niccolò Caetani

1. Pedro Sarmiento

1. Juan Álvarez de Toledo
2. Pedro Fernández Manrique
3. Robert de Lénoncourt
4. David Beaton
5. Ippolito II d'Este
6. Pietro Bembo

1. Federigo Fregoso
2. Pierre de La Baume
3. Antoine Sanguin
4. Uberto Gambara
5. Pierpaolo Parisio
6. Marcello Cervini
7. Bartolomeo Guidiccioni
8. Ascanio Parisani
9. Dionisio Laurerio
10. Enrique de Borja y Aragón
11. Giacomo Savelli
12. Miguel da Silva

1. Giovanni Morone
2. Marcello Crescenzi
3. Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona
4. Pomponio Cecci
5. Roberto Pucci
6. Tommaso Badia
7. Giovanni Andrea Cortese
8. Cristoforo Madruzzo

1. Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva
2. Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla
3. Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo
4. Georges d'Armagnac
5. Jacques d'Annebaut
6. Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
7. Andrea Cornaro
8. Francesco Sfondrati
9. Federico Cesi
10. Durante Duranti
11. Niccolò Ardinghelli
12. Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro
13. Tiberio Crispo

1. Pedro Pacheco de Villena
2. Georges II d'Amboise
3. Henrique de Portugal
4. Ranuccio Farnese

1. Charles de Guise
2. Giulio della Rovere

1. Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme

1. Girolamo Verallo
2. Giovanni Angelo de' Medici
3. Filiberto Ferrero
4. Bernardino Maffei

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