← Fame through time1630-1639
The 1630s
Whose working lives fell in the 1630s. 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 1630s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
René Descartes22 decades - 2
Oliver Cromwell22 decades - 3
Charles I of England12 decades - 4
Diego Velázquez20 decades - 5
Gian Lorenzo Bernini13 decades - 6
Michael of Russia19 decades - 7
Cardinal Mazarin20 decades - 8
Abel Tasman8 decades - 9
Anne of Austrianot measured- - 10
Pedro Calderón de la Barca22 decades - 11
Louis XIII of France22 decades - 12
Anthony van Dyck4 decades - 13
Francisco de Zurbarán12 decades - 14
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemianot measured- - 15
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1 decades - 16
Baltasar Gracián14 decades - 17
Pope Clement IX20 decades - 18
Pope Alexander VII22 decades - 19
Francesco Borromini20 decades - 20
Athanasius Kircher21 decades - 21
Władysław IV Vasa0 decades - 22
John IV of Portugal0 decades - 23
Frederick V of the Palatinatenot measured- - 24
Otto von Guericke10 decades - 25
Claude Lorrain18 decades - 26
Roger Williams22 decades - 27
Joseph of Cupertino22 decades - 28
Tokugawa Iemitsu0 decades - 29
Philippe de Champaigne22 decades - 30
John Harvard22 decades - 31
Guru Hargobind5 decades - 32
Emperor Go-Mizunoo0 decades - 33
Pietro da Cortona22 decades - 34
George William, Elector of Brandenburgnot measured- - 35
Elisabeth of France20 decades - 36
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg0 decades - 37
François Mansart21 decades - 38Injo of Joseonnot measured-
- 39
Alonso Cano22 decades - 40
Jean Eudes19 decades - 41
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen20 decades - 42
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gothanot measured- - 43
Martin Opitz22 decades - 44
Maarten Tromp0 decades - 45
Lennart Torstensson0 decades
- 46
Amakusa Shirō0 decades - 47
Jan Brueghel the Younger0 decades - 48
Frederick III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 49
Pieter Claesz0 decades - 50
Bonaventura Cavalieri22 decades - 51
Francesco Cavalli22 decades - 52
Stefan Czarniecki0 decades - 53
Tommaso Francesco, 1st Prince of Carignano1 decades - 54
Fasiladas0 decades - 55
Adriaen Brouwer0 decades - 56
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels0 decades - 57
Giovanni Battista Riccioli0 decades - 58
Gioachino Greco2 decades - 59
Charles IV of Lorraine19 decades - 60
Jan van Goyen4 decades - 61
Alessandro Algardi21 decades - 62
Mary of Jesus of Ágreda2 decades - 63
Nicola Amati11 decades - 64
Claudia de' Medici14 decades - 65
Menasseh Ben Israel22 decades - 66
Adam Olearius22 decades - 67
Johan Banér0 decades - 68
Constantijn Huygens18 decades - 69
Jijabai1 decades - 70
Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse22 decades - 71
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar22 decades - 72
Francis Hyacinth of Savoynot measured- - 73
John Francis Regis13 decades - 74
Gilles de Roberval0 decades - 75
Marie Guyart22 decades - 76
Peter Mogila0 decades - 77
Johann Rudolf Glauber0 decades - 78
Honoré II, Prince of Monaco0 decades - 79
Lagâri Hasan Çelebinot measured- - 80
John Eliot22 decades - 81
Ottavio Piccolomini0 decades - 82
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzacnot measured- - 83
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel22 decades - 84
Joan Blaeu0 decades - 85
Eleonora Gonzaga0 decades - 86
Per Brahe the Younger0 decades - 87
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza22 decades - 88
Vasile Lupu0 decades - 89
Vincent Voiture18 decades - 90
Johann Crüger10 decades - 91Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur0 decades
- 92
Infante Carlos of Spainnot measured- - 93
Zheng Zhilong0 decades - 94
Yerofey Khabarov0 decades - 95
Abraham Bosse22 decades - 96
Michaelina Wautiernot measured- - 97
Catherine of Brandenburg0 decades - 98
Gabriel Naudé22 decades - 99
Maria Celeste2 decades - 100
Senhime0 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.