1510-1519
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800-2019Echoed
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Martin Luther1483-1546 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Religious Figures22 decades - 2
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Michelangelo1475-1564 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades - 3
Ferdinand Magellan1480-1521 · 🇵🇹 Portugal · Historical Figures22 decades - 4
Raphael1483-1520 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades - 5
Thomas More1478-1535 · Politicians22 decades - 6
Francisco Pizarro1478-1541 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures22 decades - 7
Pope Leo X1475-1521 · Religious Figures22 decades - 8
Joanna of Castile1479-1555 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures3 decades - 9
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Lucrezia Borgia1480-1519 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Historical Figures22 decades - 10
Huldrych Zwingli1484-1531 · 🇨🇭 Switzerland · Academics9 decades - 11
Pope Clement VII1478-1534 · Religious Figures22 decades - 12
Bartolomé de las Casas1484-1566 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Writers22 decades - 13
Vasili III of Russia1479-1533 · Politicians12 decades - 14
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Anne of Brittany1477-1514 · 🇫🇷 France22 decades - 15
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa1475-1519 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures19 decades - 16
Hayreddin Barbarossa1478-1546 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured- - 17
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Babur1483-1530 · Writers17 decades - 18
Diego de Almagro1475-1538 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures22 decades - 19
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy1480-1530 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Artists22 decades - 20
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Pope Paul IV1476-1559 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures21 decades - 21
Lisa del Giocondo1479-1542 · Models1 decades - 22
Giorgione1478-1510 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades - 23
Matthias Grünewald1480-1528 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Artists1 decades - 24
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Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal1482-1517 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figuresnot measured- - 25
Francesco Guicciardini1483-1540 · Writers22 decades - 26
Baldassare Castiglione1478-1529 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Writers22 decades - 27
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Christian II of Denmark1481-1559 · 🇳🇴 Norway · Historical Figures0 decades - 28
Francisco de Vitoria1480-1546 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Academics21 decades - 29
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Lorenzo Lotto1480-1556 · Artists22 decades - 30
Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino1492-1519 · Politicians22 decades - 31
Hans Baldung1480-1545 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Artists20 decades - 32
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Louise of Savoy1476-1531 · 🇫🇷 France · Politicians17 decades - 33
Johann Georg Faust1480-1540 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Scientists0 decades - 34
Albrecht Altdorfer1480-1538 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Artists19 decades - 35
Götz von Berlichingen1480-1562 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers12 decades - 36
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk1484-154522 decades - 37
Hafsa Sultan1479-1534 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 38
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard1476-1524 · 🇫🇷 France · Historical Figures0 decades - 39
Sebastián de Belalcázar1480-1551 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures15 decades - 40
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Baldassare Peruzzi1481-1536 · Artists22 decades - 41
Bernardino Luini1480-1532 · Artists22 decades - 42
Il Sodoma1477-1549 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists0 decades - 43
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Dosso Dossi1480-1542 · Artists22 decades - 44
Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · Writers20 decades - 45
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara1476-1534 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Politicians0 decades - 46
Girolamo Fracastoro1478-1553 · Doctors22 decades - 47
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours1479-1516 · Politiciansnot measured- - 48
Diego Columbus1479-1526 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Politiciansnot measured- - 49
Francisco Hernández de Cordoba1475-1518 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Historical Figures16 decades - 50
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger1484-1546 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects10 decades - 51
Saint Cajetan1480-1547 · Religious Figures0 decades - 52
Paolo Giovio1483-1552 · Writers22 decades - 53
Gian Giorgio Trissino1478-1550 · Writers22 decades - 54
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Franz von Sickingen1481-1523 · Historical Figures22 decades - 55
Joachim Patinir1480-1524 · Artists0 decades - 56
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Pier Gerlofs Donia1480-1520not measured- - 57
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Sebastiano Serlio1475-1554 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Architects22 decades - 58
Julius Caesar Scaliger1484-1558 · Writers7 decades - 59
Peter Henlein1485-1510 · Scientists13 decades - 60
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Jan Gossaert1478-1532 · Artists0 decades - 61
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Jean Clouet1480-1541 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists17 decades - 62
Adrian Willaert1480-1562 · Musicians0 decades - 63
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés1478-1557 · 🇪🇸 Spain · Writers18 decades - 64EBElizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire1480-1538 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdomnot measured-
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Ibrahim Lodi1480-1526 · 🇮🇳 India · Politicians4 decades - 66
Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg1484-1535 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 67
Henry, Duke of Cornwall1511-1511not measured- - 68
Marcantonio Raimondi1480-1534 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Artists22 decades - 69
Hatuey1479-15128 decades - 70
Cuitláhuac1476-1520 · Politicians0 decades - 71
Pir Sultan Abdal1480-1550 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 72
Vallabha1479-1531 · 🇮🇳 India · Academics16 decades - 73
Palma Vecchio1480-1528 · Artists15 decades
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2nd Dalai Lama1476-1542 · 🇨🇳 China · Politiciansnot measured- - 75
Frederick II, Elector Palatine1482-155622 decades - 76
Gioffre Borgia1481-1516 · Religious Figures0 decades - 77
Stephen Gardiner1483-1555 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figures22 decades - 78
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham1478-1521 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdomnot measured- - 79
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Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours1489-1512 · 🇫🇷 France22 decades - 80
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Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne1498-1519 · 🇫🇷 France · Historical Figuresnot measured- - 81
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Tuman bay II1475-1517 · Politiciansnot measured- - 82
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Ayas Mehmed Paşa1483-1539 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politiciansnot measured- - 83
Salaì1480-1524 · Artists0 decades - 84
Gazi Husrev-beg1480-1541 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Politicians0 decades - 85
Anne of York1475-1511 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Historical Figures2 decades - 86
Guru Amar Das1479-1574 · 🇮🇳 India · Writers5 decades - 87
Surdas1479-1600 · Writers7 decades - 88
Catherine of York1479-15270 decades - 89
Lambert Simnel1477-153518 decades - 90
Triboulet1479-1536 · Writersnot measured- - 91
Duarte Barbosa1480-1521 · Historical Figures9 decades - 92
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Helena of Moscow1476-1513 · Politiciansnot measured- - 93
Domenico Beccafumi1484-1551 · Artists22 decades - 94
Matrakçı Nasuh1480-1564 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Academics0 decades - 95
Giovanni Francesco Straparolaborn 1480 · Writers0 decades - 96
Rana Sanga1482-15283 decades - 97
Johannes Oecolampadius1482-1531 · Academics0 decades - 98
Bridget of York1480-15170 decades - 99
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Barbara Jagiellon1478-1534 · Politicians0 decades - 100
Pierre Gringore1475-1539 · Writers21 decades
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active - around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.