← 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
Juan de Valdés21 decades - 2
Luis de Granada22 decades - 3
Juan de Ribera22 decades - 4
Alfonso de Valdés17 decades - 5Alfonso de Zamora22 decades
- 6
Bartolomé de Medina21 decades - 7Tomás Sáncheznot measured-
- 8
Luis de la Puente22 decades - 9
Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbainot measured- - 10Pedro de Soto22 decades
- 11Juan de Vergaranot measured-
- 12Andrés Pacheco de Cárdenasnot measured-
- 13Lorenzo Asensio Otaduy Avendañonot measured-
- 14Diego de Chavesnot 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.