← 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 - 26
Shimazu Yoshihironot measured- - 27
Azai Nagamasa0 decades - 28
Ashikaga Yoshiteru0 decades - 29
Mōri Terumoto0 decades - 30
Paulo Mikinot measured- - 31
Mori Ranmaru0 decades - 32
Ii Naomasa0 decades - 33
Sanada Masayuki0 decades - 34
Oda Nobutada0 decades - 35
Saitō Dōsannot measured- - 36
Ōtani Yoshitsugunot measured- - 37
Shibata Katsuie0 decades - 38
Hosokawa Tadaoki0 decades - 39
Uesugi Kagekatsu0 decades - 40
Chōsokabe Motochikanot measured- - 41
Fukushima Masanori0 decades - 42
Kuroda Yoshitaka0 decades - 43
Toyotomi Hidetsugu0 decades - 44
Hōjō Ujimasanot measured- - 45
Oda Nobutaka0 decades - 46
Ashikaga Yoshihide0 decades - 47
Torii Mototada0 decades - 48
Hōjō Ujiyasunot measured- - 49
Ashikaga Yoshitane0 decades - 50
Hasegawa Tōhaku0 decades - 51
Ashikaga Yoshiharu0 decades - 52
Yamamoto Kansuke0 decades - 53
Kanō Eitoku0 decades - 54
Ōmura Sumitada0 decades - 55
Tōdō Takatoranot measured- - 56
Ōtomo Sōrin0 decades - 57
Oda Nobukatsu0 decades - 58Muramasa1 decades
- 59
Katō Yoshiakinot measured- - 60Matsudaira Hirotada0 decades
- 61
Matsunaga Hisahide0 decades - 62
Hosokawa Fujitaka0 decades - 63
Wakizaka Yasuharu0 decades - 64
Asakura Yoshikage0 decades - 65
Lady Saigōnot measured- - 66
Hashiba Hidekatsunot measured- - 67
Sakakibara Yasumasa0 decades - 68
Ashikaga Yoshizumi0 decades - 69
Matsudaira Nobuyasunot measured- - 70
Kamiizumi Nobutsuna0 decades - 71
Naoe Kanetsugu0 decades - 72
Tsukahara Bokuden0 decades - 73
Araki Murashige0 decades - 74
Saitō Yoshitatsunot measured- - 75
Niwa Nagahide0 decades - 76
Anjirō0 decades - 77
Takeda Nobutora0 decades - 78
Sakai Tadatsugu0 decades - 79
Baba Nobuharu0 decades - 80
Katagiri Katsumoto0 decades - 81
Oda Nagamasunot measured- - 82
Hōjō Ujitsunanot measured- - 83
Takenaka Shigeharunot measured- - 84
Kanō Motonobu0 decades - 85
Shimazu Takahisanot measured- - 86
Kōsanot measured- - 87
Ankokuji Ekei0 decades - 88
Shima Sakon0 decades - 89
Takeda Nobushige0 decades - 90
James Kisai0 decades - 91
Saitō Tatsuokinot measured- - 92
Sanada Yukitakanot measured- - 93
Yamagata Masakage0 decades - 94
Kuki Yoshitaka0 decades - 95
Maeda Toshimasunot measured- - 96
Konoe Sakihisa0 decades - 97
Shimazu Yoshihisa0 decades - 98
Hōjō Ujinaonot measured- - 99
Honami Kōetsunot measured- - 100
Imagawa Ujizane0 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.