← 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 - 26
Claude of France22 decades - 27
Giovanni da Verrazzano19 decades - 28
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca8 decades - 29
Louis II of Hungary0 decades - 30
Antonio Pigafetta20 decades - 31
Pietro Aretino22 decades - 32
Leo Africanus15 decades - 33
Pontormo22 decades - 34
Antonio da Correggio22 decades - 35
Bona Sforza22 decades - 36
Isabella of Austria0 decades - 37
Bernal Díaz del Brawl22 decades - 38
Jean de Valette Parisotnot measured- - 39
Francysk Skaryna16 decades - 40
Albert, Duke of Prussianot measured- - 41
Giovanni delle Bande Nere21 decades - 42
Georgius Agricola22 decades - 43
Hans Sachs22 decades - 44
Ulrich von Hutten22 decades - 45
Zhengde Emperornot measured- - 46
John Zápolya0 decades - 47
Dragut18 decades - 48Jungjong of Joseonnot measured-
- 49
Andrea del Sarto22 decades - 50
Charles III, Duke of Bourbonnot measured- - 51
Tansen7 decades - 52
Charles, Duke of Vendôme0 decades - 53
Vittoria Colonna22 decades - 54
Florian Geyer18 decades - 55
Huascar22 decades - 56
Martin Bucer22 decades - 57
Anne de Montmorency22 decades - 58
Galvarino1 decades - 59
Pedro de Mendoza0 decades - 60
Rosso Fiorentino19 decades - 61
Ferdinand Columbus15 decades - 62
Germaine of Foix20 decades - 63
Sayyida al-Hurra0 decades - 64
Adam Ries7 decades - 65
Antonio de Mendoza0 decades - 66
Sebastiano del Piombo21 decades - 67
Sebastian Münster22 decades - 68
Matteo Bandello22 decades - 69
Francesco Melzi0 decades - 70
Albert of Mainz0 decades - 71
Jacopo Sansovino22 decades - 72
Hugh Latimer22 decades - 73
John III, Duke of Clevesnot measured- - 74
Juan de Grijalva22 decades - 75
Johann Eck0 decades - 76Al-Mutawakkil IIInot measured-
- 77
Juan Luis Vives6 decades - 78
Mother Shipton22 decades - 79
Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria11 decades - 80
Lutfi Pasha0 decades - 81
Johannes Bugenhagen18 decades - 82
Andreas Karlstadt0 decades - 83
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo4 decades - 84
Thomas of Villanova22 decades - 85
Lapu-Lapu4 decades - 86
William Farel22 decades - 87
Antoine, Duke of Lorrainenot measured- - 88Olaus Magnus22 decades
- 89
Carlo II, Duke of Savoy0 decades - 90
Alonso Berruguete22 decades - 91Clément Janequin10 decades
- 92
Sten Sture the Younger0 decades - 93
Antoinette de Bourbon21 decades - 94
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Jerónimo de Aguilar19 decades - 95
Maximilian Sforza8 decades - 96Şehzade Abdullahnot measured-
- 97
Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg0 decades - 98
Cristóbal de Olidnot measured- - 99
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda21 decades - 100
John Taverner3 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.