← Fame through time1550-1559
The 1550s
Whose working lives fell in the 1550s. 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 1550s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Mary I of England22 decades - 2
Catherine de' Medici22 decades - 3
Teresa of Ávila22 decades - 4
Lady Jane Grey22 decades - 5
Henry II of Francenot measured- - 6
Anne of Cleves4 decades - 7
Selim II18 decades - 8
Edward VI of England0 decades - 9
Pope Sixtus V22 decades - 10
Tintoretto22 decades - 11
Pierre de Ronsard21 decades - 12
Mary of Lorraine15 decades - 13
Philip Neri22 decades - 14
Luís de Camões1 decades - 15
Takeda Shingen0 decades - 16
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany22 decades - 17
Pope Urban VII0 decades - 18
Şehzade Mustafa0 decades - 19
Sigismund II Augustus0 decades - 20
Antoine of Navarre22 decades - 21
Akechi Mitsuhide0 decades - 22
Louise Labé21 decades - 23
Judah Loew ben Bezalel0 decades - 24
Christina of Denmark0 decades - 25
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghleynot measured-
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.