← 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
Katharina von Bora21 decades - 2
Ulrich von Hutten22 decades - 3
Johann Tetzel20 decades - 4
Martin Bucer22 decades - 5
Adam Ries7 decades - 6
Sebastian Münster22 decades - 7
Johann Eck0 decades - 8
Johannes Bugenhagen18 decades - 9
Andreas Karlstadt0 decades - 10
Ludolph van Ceulen0 decades - 11
Martin Chemnitz22 decades - 12
Johannes Agricola9 decades - 13
Michael Sattler7 decades - 14
Erasmus Reinhold13 decades - 15
Joachim Camerarius6 decades - 16
Otto Truchsess von Waldburg0 decades - 17
Valentin Weigel22 decades - 18
Adam Lonitzer1 decades - 19
Thomas Fincke0 decades - 20
Kaspar Olevianus5 decades - 21Adriaan van Roomen0 decades
- 22
Paul Eber22 decades - 23
Salomon Schweigger4 decades - 24
Gregor Brück8 decades - 25
Jerome Emser20 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.