← Fame through time1530-1539
The 1530s
Whose working lives fell in the 1530s. 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 1530s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 2
Anne Boleyn22 decades - 3
Nostradamus22 decades - 4
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor0 decades - 5
Hans Holbein the Younger18 decades - 6
Pope Gregory XIII22 decades - 7
Mary Tudor, Queen of France22 decades - 8
Atahualpanot measured- - 9
Hernando de Soto22 decades - 10
Meeranot measured- - 11
Pope Pius V8 decades - 12
Mary Boleyn8 decades - 13
Diane de Poitiers22 decades - 14
Philip Melanchthon22 decades - 15
Isabella of Portugalnot measured- - 16
Garcilaso de la Vega22 decades - 17
Benvenuto Cellini22 decades - 18
Pargalı Ibrahim Pashanot measured- - 19
Pope Pius IV22 decades - 20
Katharina von Bora21 decades - 21
Pedro de Valdivia22 decades - 22
Christian III of Denmark0 decades - 23
Gustav I of Sweden0 decades - 24
Mahidevran0 decades - 25
Eleanor of Austria12 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.