← Fame through time1500-1599
The 16th century
Whose working lives fell in the 16th century. 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 16th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William Farel22 decades - 2Pierre Robert Olivétan0 decades
- 3
Conrad Lycosthenes0 decades - 4Corderius20 decades
- 5
Jean Duvet13 decades - 6
Franciscus Juniusnot measured- - 7Nicolas Cop14 decades
- 8Jérôme-Hermès Bolsecnot measured-
- 9
Lambert Daneau0 decades - 10Innocent Gentilletnot measured-
- 11Jean de Serresnot measured-
- 12
Étienne Delaunenot measured- - 13Francis Lambertnot measured-
- 14Pierre Carolinot measured-
- 15Jacques Almainnot measured-
- 16Jacques Sabonnot measured-
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.