← Fame through time1560-1569
The 1560s
Whose working lives fell in the 1560s. 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 1560s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ivan the Terrible19 decades - 2
Philip II of Spain22 decades - 3
Elizabeth I of England6 decades - 4
Michel de Montaigne22 decades - 5
Oda Nobunaga8 decades - 6
Pieter Bruegel the Elder0 decades - 7
Francis II of France22 decades - 8
William the Silentnot measured- - 9
Tulsidas11 decades - 10
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 11
John Dee22 decades - 12
Étienne de La Boétie3 decades - 13
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina16 decades - 14
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley0 decades - 15
Giuseppe Arcimboldo4 decades - 16
Elisabeth of Valois22 decades - 17
Nurbanu Sultan0 decades - 18
Paolo Veronese22 decades - 19
Carlos, Prince of Asturias22 decades - 20
Sofonisba Anguissola19 decades - 21
Jeanne d'Albret22 decades - 22
Stephen Báthory0 decades - 23
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicesternot measured- - 24
Frederick II of Denmark0 decades - 25
Jean Bodin22 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.