← 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
Hans Sachs22 decades - 2
Götz von Berlichingen12 decades - 3
Johannes Aventinus0 decades - 4
Sebastian Franck19 decades - 5
Johannes Pfefferkorn7 decades - 6Elia Levita0 decades
- 7
Johann Fischart20 decades - 8
Rudolph Goclenius0 decades - 9
Ubbo Emmius0 decades - 10
Caspar Peucer0 decades - 11
Thomas Murner0 decades - 12
Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingennot measured- - 13
Paulus Hector Mair0 decades - 14
Paul Speratus21 decades - 15
Wilhelm Xylander1 decades - 16
Gregor Reisch0 decades - 17
Argula von Grumbach10 decades - 18Georg Wickram16 decades
- 19
Georg Fabricius22 decades - 20
Martin Crusius1 decades - 21
Jan Gruter0 decades - 22
David Chytraeus18 decades - 23
Helius Eobanus Hessus0 decades - 24
Elisabeth Cruciger0 decades - 25
Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt1 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.