← Fame through time1570-1579
The 1570s
Whose working lives fell in the 1570s. 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 1570s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mary, Queen of Scots22 decades - 2
Akbarnot measured- - 3
Francis Drake22 decades - 4
Tokugawa Ieyasu8 decades - 5
El Greco15 decades - 6
Toyotomi Hideyoshi8 decades - 7
Charles IX of France0 decades - 8
John of the Cross22 decades - 9
Torquato Tasso22 decades - 10
Charles Borromeo22 decades - 11
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega22 decades - 12
Robert Bellarmine22 decades - 13
Pope Leo XI0 decades - 14
John of Austria22 decades - 15
Mariam-uz-Zamani0 decades - 16
Pope Clement VIII21 decades - 17
Grace O'Malley0 decades - 18
John III of Swedennot measured- - 19
Túpac Amaru2 decades - 20
William Byrd22 decades - 21
Sebastian of Portugal6 decades - 22
Hattori Hanzō0 decades - 23
Charles II, Archduke of Austrianot measured- - 24
Pratap Singhnot measured- - 25
Martin Frobisher22 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.