← 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
Peter Faber2 decades - 2
Alessandro Farnesenot measured- - 3
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbonnot measured- - 4
Ippolito II d'Este19 decades - 5
Charles, Cardinal of Lorrainenot measured- - 6
Louis II of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guisenot measured- - 7
Nicolas of Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur21 decades
- 8
Luigi d'Este22 decades - 9
Charles II de Bourbon-Vendômenot measured- - 10
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César de Bus20 decades - 11
Louis I of Lorraine, cardinal of Guisenot measured- - 12
François de Joyeuse17 decades - 13
Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme0 decades - 14Amanieu d'Albret16 decades
- 15
Lorenzo Strozzi0 decades - 16
Pierre de Gondi21 decades - 17Federico di Sanseverinonot measured-
- 18
Henri, Duke of Joyeuse13 decades - 19
Gérard Roussel0 decades - 20
Charles de Lorraine de Vaudémontnot measured- - 21
Jean Le Veneur4 decades - 22
Prospero Santacroce13 decades - 23
Georges II d'Amboise1 decades - 24
Pierre de La Baume12 decades - 25
Robert de Lenoncourt17 decades - 26
Matthieu Cointerelnot measured- - 27Jean d'Orléans-Longueville0 decades
- 28
Claude de Longwy de Givrynot measured- - 29
Antoine de Créqui Canaples2 decades - 30Charles III de Bourbonnot measured-
- 31
Louis, Count of Vaudémontnot measured- - 32
Jean de la Barrière2 decades - 33Edmond Richernot measured-
- 34
Guillaume de Joyeusenot measured- - 35Paul de Foixnot measured-
- 36Adrian Gouffier de Boissy0 decades
- 37Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet0 decades
- 38Claude de La Baume3 decades
- 39
Philippe de Lenoncourt9 decades - 40
Claude Le Jaynot measured- - 41
Charles de Hémard de Denonvillenot measured- - 42
Francesco Maria Taruginot measured- - 43François de Noaillesnot measured-
- 44Jean-François de la Trémoillenot measured-
- 45
Philippe du Becnot measured- - 46
Renaud de Beaunenot measured- - 47
Hugolin Martellinot measured- - 48
Willem van Bergennot measured- - 49Jean Suaunot measured-
- 50Gabriel Giffordnot measured-
- 51Annibale Bozzutinot measured-
- 52
Jean Sarazinnot measured- - 53
Denis Briçonnetnot measured- - 54Guillaume d'Avançonnot measured-
- 55Antoine de Chabannesnot 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.