← 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
Akechi Mitsuhide0 decades - 4
Hattori Hanzō0 decades - 5
Ōgimachi0 decades - 6
Go-Nara0 decades - 7
Lady Saigōnot measured- - 8Tanaka Shōsukenot measured-
- 9Ichijō Fusamichinot 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.