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← 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. 1Peter Faber1506-1546 · France · Religious Figures2 decades
  2. 2Alessandro Farnese1520-1589 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  3. 3Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon1523-1590 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  4. 4Ippolito II d'Este1509-1572 · France · Religious Figures19 decades
  5. 5Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine1524-1574 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  6. 6Louis II of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise1555-1588 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  7. 7Nicolas of Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur1524-1577 · France · Religious Figures21 decades
  8. 8Luigi d'Este1538-1586 · France · Religious Figures22 decades
  9. 9Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme1562-1594 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  10. 10César de Bus1544-1607 · France · Religious Figures20 decades
  11. 11Louis I of Lorraine, cardinal of Guise1527-1578 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  12. 12François de Joyeuse1562-1615 · France · Religious Figures17 decades
  13. 13Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme1493-1557 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Amanieu d'Albret1478-1520 · France · Religious Figures16 decades
  15. 15Lorenzo Strozzi1513-1571 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  16. 16Pierre de Gondi1533-1616 · France · Religious Figures21 decades
  17. 17Federico di Sanseverino1475-1516 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  18. 18Henri, Duke of Joyeuse1563-1608 · France · Religious Figures13 decades
  19. 19Gérard Roussel1500-1550 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  20. 20Charles de Lorraine de Vaudémont1561-1587 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  21. 21Jean Le Veneur1505-1543 · France · Religious Figures4 decades
  22. 22Prospero Santacroce1514-1589 · France · Religious Figures13 decades
  23. 23Georges II d'Amboise1488-1550 · France · Religious Figures1 decades
  24. 24Pierre de La Baume1477-1544 · France · Religious Figures12 decades
  25. 25Robert de Lenoncourt1510-1561 · France · Religious Figures17 decades
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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.