← 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 - 26
Giorgione22 decades - 27
Matthias Grünewald1 decades - 28
Johann Georg Faust0 decades - 29
Baldassare Castiglione22 decades - 30
Francesco Guicciardini22 decades - 31
Francisco de Vitoria21 decades - 32
Götz von Berlichingen12 decades - 33
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk22 decades - 34
Lorenzo Lotto22 decades - 35
Ibrahim Lodi4 decades - 36
Guru Amar Das5 decades - 37
Saint Cajetan0 decades - 38
2nd Dalai Lamanot measured- - 39Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshirenot measured-
- 40
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard0 decades - 41
Louise of Savoy17 decades - 42
Albrecht Altdorfer19 decades - 43
Diego Columbusnot measured- - 44
Vallabha16 decades - 45
Pier Gerlofs Donianot measured- - 46
Hans Baldung20 decades - 47
Rana Sanga3 decades - 48
Il Sodoma0 decades - 49
Sebastián de Belalcázar15 decades - 50
Surdas7 decades - 51
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara0 decades - 52
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemoursnot measured- - 53
Girolamo Fracastoro22 decades - 54
Maximus the Greek20 decades - 55
Hatuey8 decades - 56
Bernardino Luini22 decades - 57
Cuitláhuac0 decades - 58
Dosso Dossi22 decades - 59
Henry, Duke of Cornwallnot measured- - 60
Stephen Gardiner22 decades - 61
Peter Henlein13 decades - 62
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger10 decades - 63
Gioffre Borgia0 decades - 64
Francisco Hernández de Cordobanot measured- - 65
Franz von Sickingen22 decades - 66
Baldassare Peruzzi22 decades - 67
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckinghamnot measured- - 68
Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg22 decades - 69
Paolo Giovio22 decades - 70
Gian Giorgio Trissino22 decades - 71
Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergnenot measured- - 72
Anne of York2 decades - 73
Joachim Patinir0 decades - 74
Pir Sultan Abdal0 decades - 75
Jean Clouet17 decades - 76
Lambert Simnel18 decades - 77
Ayas Mehmed Paşanot measured- - 78
Sebastiano Serlio22 decades - 79
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés18 decades - 80Malik Muhammad Jayasi0 decades
- 81
Tuman bay IInot measured- - 82
Jan Gossaert0 decades - 83
Andrea Navagero22 decades - 84
Duarte Barbosa9 decades - 85
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours22 decades - 86
Salaì0 decades - 87
Julius Caesar Scaliger7 decades - 88
Frederick II, Elector Palatinenot measured- - 89
Marcantonio Raimondi22 decades - 90
Catherine of York0 decades - 91
Domenico Beccafumi22 decades - 92
Giovanni Francesco Straparola0 decades - 93
Adrian Willaert0 decades - 94
Bridget of York0 decades - 95
Johannes Oecolampadius0 decades - 96
Helena of Moscownot measured- - 97
Tribouletnot measured- - 98Ayşe Hatunnot measured-
- 99
Matrakçı Nasuh0 decades - 100
Palma Vecchio15 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.