Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton (c. 1495–1561), styled "The First Protestant Lord Mayor of London", was a privy councillor, statesman, scholar, merchant and patron of art and philanthropist active through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. He coordinated the publication of the 1560 Geneva Bible, and his name appears on its frontispiece. He is associated with the first flowerings of Tudor English drama, and events he was involved in may have shaped plays by William Shakespeare to the extent of suggesting a character in one of his plays.