← Fame through time1590-1599
The 1590s
Whose working lives fell in the 1590s. 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 1590s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William Shakespeare22 decades - 2
Galileo Galilei22 decades - 3
Christopher Marlowe22 decades - 4
Elizabeth Báthory0 decades - 5
Lope de Vega22 decades - 6
Francis Bacon22 decades - 7
Feodor I of Russianot measured- - 8
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 9
Nurhaci4 decades - 10
Anne Hathaway21 decades - 11
Luis de Góngora22 decades - 12
Aloysius Gonzaga22 decades - 13
Wanli Emperor0 decades - 14
Guru Arjan6 decades - 15
Yasuke1 decades - 16
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tillynot measured- - 17
Annibale Carracci22 decades - 18
Michael the Brave2 decades - 19
John Dowland13 decades - 20
Ishida Mitsunari0 decades - 21
Beatrice Cenci22 decades - 22
Gabrielle d'Estrées22 decades - 23
Pieter Brueghel the Younger0 decades - 24
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria22 decades - 25
Ahmad Sirhindi1 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.