← 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
Tokugawa Ieyasu8 decades - 2
Oda Nobunaga8 decades - 3
Toyotomi Hideyoshi8 decades - 4
Takeda Shingen0 decades - 5
Yasuke1 decades - 6
Akechi Mitsuhide0 decades - 7
Uesugi Kenshin0 decades - 8
Hattori Hanzō0 decades - 9
Ishida Mitsunari0 decades - 10
Ōgimachi0 decades - 11
Sen no Rikyū0 decades - 12
Go-Nara0 decades - 13
Ishikawa Goemon0 decades - 14
Mōri Motonari0 decades - 15
Imagawa Yoshimoto0 decades - 16
Katō Kiyomasa0 decades - 17
Justo Takayama0 decades - 18
Honda Tadakatsu0 decades - 19
Ashikaga Yoshiaki0 decades - 20
Maeda Toshiie0 decades - 21
Takeda Katsuyori0 decades - 22
Konishi Yukinaga0 decades - 23
Oda Nobuhide0 decades - 24
Oichi0 decades - 25
Hosokawa Gracia0 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.