Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke[a] (/fʊlk ˈɡrɛvɪl/; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628) was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I as, successively, treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, and commissioner of the Treasury, and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke, peer of the realm.

Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark and thoughtful views on art, literature, beauty and other philosophical matters.

[6] Greville, Philip Sidney and Sir Edward Dyer were members of the "Areopagus", the literary clique which, under the leadership of Gabriel Harvey, supported the introduction of classical metres into English verse.

[7] About 1591 Greville served further for a short time in Normandy under King Henry III of Navarre in the French Wars of Religion.

On 1 September 1628 Greville was stabbed at his house in Holborn, London, by Ralph Haywood, a servant who believed that he had been cheated by being left out of his master's will.

[10] His body was brought back to Warwick, and he was buried in the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, and on his tomb was inscribed the epitaph he had composed:[11][unreliable source] Servant to Queene ElizabethConceller to King Jamesand Frend to Sir Philip Sidney.Trophaeum Peccati.Greville has numerous streets named after him in the Hatton Garden area of Holborn, London (see Hatton Garden#Street names etymologies).

The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville edited by Thom Gunn, with an afterword by Bradin Cormack, was published in 2009 (University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-30846-3.)

Andrea McCrea sees the influence of Justus Lipsius in the Letter to an Honourable Lady, but elsewhere detects a scepticism more akin to Michel de Montaigne.

[15] A rhyming elegy on Greville, published in Henry Huth's Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, brings charges of miserliness against him.

His other barony (Willoughby de Broke) was inherited by his sister Margaret who married Sir Richard Verney.

He is recently claimed to have been the lover of Philip Sidney, only on the evidence of a plan by Greville for a shared tomb with his lifelong friend.