← Fame through time1610-1619
The 1610s
Whose working lives fell in the 1610s. 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 1610s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Peter Paul Rubens22 decades - 2
Miyamoto Musashi2 decades - 3
Philip III of Spain19 decades - 4
Pocahontas22 decades
- 5
Marie de' Medici22 decades - 6
Ahmed I2 decades - 7
Francisco Quevedo22 decades - 8
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 9
Rose of Lima22 decades - 10
John Smith22 decades - 11
Vincent de Paul22 decades - 12
Hugo Grotius22 decades - 13
William Harvey22 decades - 14
Christian IV of Denmark1 decades - 15
Nur Jahan11 decades - 16
Albrecht von Wallenstein20 decades - 17
Jakob Böhme22 decades - 18
Martin de Porres14 decades - 19
Frans Halsnot measured- - 20
Nzingha Mbandenot measured- - 21
Guido Reni22 decades - 22
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain0 decades - 23
Tirso de Molina22 decades - 24
Dmitry Pozharsky19 decades - 25
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales0 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.