← Fame through time1520-1529
The 1520s
Whose working lives fell in the 1520s. 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 1520s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Hernán Cortés22 decades - 2
Suleiman the Magnificent11 decades - 3
Henry VIII of England13 decades - 4
Catherine of Aragon20 decades - 5
Francis I of France0 decades - 6
Ignatius of Loyola22 decades - 7
Jacques Cartier22 decades - 8
Paracelsus22 decades - 9
Titian22 decades - 10
François Rabelais22 decades - 11
Ismail Inot measured- - 12
Thomas Cromwell22 decades - 13
Margaret Tudor19 decades - 14
Thomas Cranmer22 decades - 15
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu0 decades - 16
Juan Sebastián Elcano14 decades - 17
William Tyndale21 decades - 18
Mimar Sinan1 decades - 19
Thomas Müntzer15 decades - 20
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Sher Shah Suri1 decades - 21
Marguerite de Navarre0 decades - 22
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa0 decades - 23
Pope Julius III22 decades - 24
Cuauhtémocnot measured- - 25
Pedro de Alvarado22 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.