← Fame through time1650-1659
The 1650s
Whose working lives fell in the 1650s. 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 1650s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Molière22 decades - 2
Blaise Pascal22 decades - 3
Aurangzeb20 decades - 4
Jean de La Fontaine22 decades - 5
Cyrano de Bergerac0 decades - 6
Jean-Baptiste Colbert22 decades - 7
Koxinga10 decades - 8
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo20 decades - 9
Guru Tegh Bahadur6 decades - 10
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburgnot measured- - 11
George Fox22 decades - 12
Avvakum5 decades - 13
William II, Prince of Orangenot measured- - 14
Prince Rupert of the Rhinenot measured- - 15
Louis, Grand Condénot measured- - 16
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Jan van Riebeeck7 decades - 17
Charles X Gustav of Sweden19 decades
- 18
Charles Le Brun22 decades - 19
Ninon de Lenclos22 decades - 20
Nicolas Fouquet22 decades - 21
5th Dalai Lamanot measured- - 22
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen8 decades - 23
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tynenot measured- - 24
Andrew Marvell22 decades - 25
Pope Innocent XII8 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.