← Fame through time1510-1519
The 1510s
Whose working lives fell in the 1510s. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1510s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Martin Luther22 decades - 2
Michelangelo22 decades - 3
Ferdinand Magellan22 decades - 4
Thomas More22 decades - 5
Raphael22 decades - 6
Babur17 decades - 7
Pope Leo X22 decades - 8
Francisco Pizarro22 decades - 9
Lucrezia Borgia22 decades - 10
Joanna of Castile3 decades - 11
Pope Clement VII22 decades - 12
Huldrych Zwingli9 decades - 13
Bartolomé de las Casas22 decades - 14
Hayreddin Barbarossanot measured- - 15
Vasili III of Russia12 decades - 16
Anne of Brittany22 decades - 17
Lisa del Giocondo1 decades - 18
Vasco Núñez de Balboa19 decades - 19
Christian II of Denmark0 decades - 20
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy22 decades - 21
Hafsa Sultan0 decades - 22
Pope Paul IV21 decades - 23
Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugalnot measured- - 24
Diego de Almagro22 decades - 25
Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino22 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.