← 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 - 26
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany18 decades - 27
François Viète0 decades - 28
Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal22 decades - 29
Sonam Gyatso0 decades - 30
Alessandro Valignano7 decades - 31
Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany0 decades - 32
Longqing Emperor0 decades - 33
John Sigismund Zápolya0 decades - 34
Charles III, Duke of Lorrainenot measured- - 35
Pope Gregory XIV0 decades - 36
Domenico Fontana22 decades - 37
Isabella de' Medici16 decades - 38
Edmund Campion21 decades - 39
Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Ebolinot measured- - 40
Joseph Justus Scaliger0 decades - 41
Ashikaga Yoshiaki0 decades - 42
Humphrey Gilbert22 decades - 43
Ruqaiya Sultan Begumnot measured- - 44
Christopher Clavius1 decades - 45
Federico Barocci22 decades - 46
Caesar Baronius22 decades - 47
Maeda Toshiie0 decades - 48
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira4 decades - 49
Federico Zuccari22 decades - 50
Giambattista della Porta0 decades - 51
Turibius of Mongrovejo21 decades - 52
Salima Sultan Begum0 decades - 53
Alessandro Allori22 decades - 54
Jan Zamoyski0 decades - 55
José de Acosta21 decades - 56Juan de Fuca22 decades
- 57
Renata of Lorraine12 decades - 58
Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême21 decades - 59
Anna of Saxonynot measured- - 60
Yi Inot measured- - 61
Petrus Gonsalvusnot measured- - 62
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottinghamnot measured-
- 63
Ludolph van Ceulen0 decades - 64
Paschal Baylon18 decades - 65
Mary Grey16 decades - 66
Shimazu Yoshihironot measured- - 67
Juan de Mariana22 decades - 68
Azai Nagamasa0 decades - 69
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme22 decades - 70
Luis de Molina22 decades
- 71
Ferdinand, Prince of Asturiasnot measured- - 72
Guglielmo Gonzaga22 decades - 73
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolknot measured- - 74
Archduchess Barbara of Austrianot measured- - 75
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone21 decades - 76
Louis VI of the Palatinatenot measured- - 77
Magnus, Duke of Holsteinnot measured- - 78
Princess Cecilia of Sweden0 decades - 79
Lettice Knollys2 decades - 80
Kuchum3 decades - 81
Marcantonio II Colonna0 decades - 82
Chōsokabe Motochikanot measured- - 83
Pari Khan Khanum0 decades - 84
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital22 decades - 85
Hōjō Ujimasanot measured- - 86
Olivier de Serres22 decades - 87
Fausto Sozzini10 decades - 88
Christine of Hesse0 decades - 89
Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhaltnot measured- - 90
John VI, Count of Nassau-Siegennot measured- - 91
Torii Mototada0 decades - 92
Henriette of Cleves0 decades - 93
Marfa Sobakina0 decades - 94
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorsetnot measured- - 95
William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg6 decades - 96
Giovanni Botero22 decades - 97
Hasegawa Tōhaku0 decades - 98
Jost Amman5 decades - 99Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadinot measured-
- 100
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach0 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.