← 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.
- 1
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 - 26
Empress Meishōnot measured- - 27
Carel Fabritius0 decades - 28
Salvator Rosa22 decades - 29
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romansnot measured-
- 30
Angelus Silesius20 decades - 31
John Wallis22 decades - 32
Philip William, Elector Palatinenot measured- - 33
Andreas Gryphius22 decades - 34
John Evelyn22 decades - 35
Elias Ashmole22 decades - 36
William Petty22 decades - 37
Elisabeth of the Palatinatenot measured- - 38
Francesco Morosini22 decades - 39
Hyojong of Joseonnot measured- - 40
Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine0 decades - 41
Barbara Strozzi5 decades - 42
Go-Kōmyōnot measured- - 43
Guarino Guarini22 decades - 44
Richard Baxter22 decades - 45
Peter Lely22 decades - 46Dilras Banu0 decades
- 47
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesburynot measured- - 48
Wang Fuzhi9 decades - 49
François Bernier19 decades - 50
Hishikawa Moronobu0 decades - 51
Ferdinand Verbiest4 decades - 52
John Owen22 decades - 53
Algernon Sidney22 decades - 54
Shi Lang5 decades - 55
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy0 decades - 56
Thomas Willis22 decades - 57
Thomas Sydenham20 decades - 58
Edme Mariotte0 decades - 59
Louis de Buade de Frontenac0 decades - 60
Aelbert Cuyp0 decades - 61
Roshanara Begum0 decades - 62
Gerard ter Borch0 decades - 63
Pierre Puget22 decades - 64
Nikola VII Zrinskinot measured- - 65Johann Jakob Froberger2 decades
- 66
Anne-Geneviève de Bourbonnot measured- - 67
Madeleine Béjart20 decades - 68
Lucy Walter1 decades - 69Henry Vaughan22 decades
- 70
Shah Shuja18 decades - 71John Graunt11 decades
- 72
Maria Miloslavskaya0 decades - 73
Jean Picard22 decades - 74
Paulus Potter0 decades - 75
Nicholas Culpeper3 decades - 76
Vincenzo Viviani22 decades - 77
Marguerite Bourgeoys12 decades - 78
Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg0 decades - 79
Abraham Cowley22 decades - 80Zhu Youlang, Prince of Gui0 decades
- 81Ismihan Kaya Sultannot measured-
- 82
Richard Lovelace22 decades - 83
François Pierre La Varenne0 decades - 84
George II Rákóczi0 decades - 85
Murad Bakhsh0 decades - 86
Vittoria della Rovere0 decades - 87
Juan de Valdés Leal16 decades - 88
Princess Elizabeth of England0 decades - 89
Leonora Christina Ulfeldtnot measured- - 90
Ferdinand Bol2 decades - 91
François de Laval21 decades - 92
François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort18 decades - 93
Govert Flinck0 decades - 94
Eustache Le Sueur20 decades - 95
George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Cellenot measured- - 96
Petar Zrinski0 decades - 97
Francesco Maria Grimaldi0 decades - 98
François de La Chaisenot measured- - 99
Lachit Borphukan0 decades - 100
Sébastien Bourdon22 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.