← 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 - 26
Gerolamo Cardano19 decades - 27
Pope Marcellus II19 decades - 28
John III of Portugal0 decades - 29
Wu Cheng'en9 decades - 30
Thomas Wyatt22 decades - 31
Miguel López de Legazpi14 decades - 32
Reginald Pole22 decades - 33
Bronzino18 decades - 34
Parmigianino22 decades - 35
Bairam Khan11 decades - 36
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberlandnot measured- - 37
Rüstem Pasha0 decades - 38
Menno Simons18 decades - 39
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo13 decades - 40
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence11 decades - 41
Guru Angad Dev0 decades - 42
Philip I of Hesse0 decades - 43
John of God22 decades - 44
Giulio Romano22 decades - 45
Bernardino de Sahagún14 decades - 46
Madeleine of Valoisnot measured- - 47
Henry II of Navarre0 decades - 48
John of Ávila19 decades - 49
Hemunot measured- - 50
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somersetnot measured- - 51
John of Leiden0 decades - 52
Francesco II Sforza22 decades - 53
Gonzalo Pizarro22 decades - 54
Anne of Bohemia and Hungary0 decades - 55
Go-Nara0 decades - 56
John Frederick I6 decades - 57
Mōri Motonari0 decades - 58
Heinrich Bullinger22 decades - 59
Claude of Lorraine, duke of Guise22 decades - 60
Shin Saimdang0 decades - 61
Elizabeth Blount0 decades - 62
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia22 decades - 63
George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochfordnot measured- - 64
Elena Glinskaya0 decades - 65
Andrés de Urdaneta19 decades - 66
Lala Kara Mustafa Paşanot measured- - 67Ruy López de Villalobos13 decades
- 68
Scipione Rebiba8 decades - 69
Pier Luigi Farnese16 decades - 70
Peter of Alcantara22 decades - 71
Enrique of Malacca0 decades - 72
Leonhart Fuchs8 decades - 73
Francis IIInot measured- - 74
Jakob Hutter0 decades - 75
Sebastiano Venier21 decades - 76Túpac Huallpanot measured-
- 77
Claude Garamond0 decades - 78
Ippolito de' Medici6 decades - 79
Lebna Dengel1 decades - 80
Yi Hwang0 decades - 81Beyhan Sultan0 decades
- 82
Maarten van Heemskerck0 decades - 83
Robert Estienne22 decades - 84
Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua0 decades - 85
Nicholas Ridley17 decades - 86
Otto Henry19 decades - 87
Matthew Parker22 decades - 88
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberlandnot measured- - 89
Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy0 decades - 90Munjeong0 decades
- 91
Ivan Susanin0 decades - 92
Clément Marot12 decades - 93
Peter Martyr Vermigli20 decades - 94
Giovanni della Casa21 decades - 95
Maria Salviati0 decades - 96
Petrus Apianus12 decades - 97
Sophie of Pomerania0 decades - 98
Pedro Nunes0 decades - 99
Cristóbal de Morales18 decades - 100
Angelo Beolco19 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.