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← 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. 1Ignatius of Loyola1491-1556 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  2. 2Francis Xavier1506-1552 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  3. 3Francisco Suárez1548-1617 · Spain · Religious Figures14 decades
  4. 4Ruy López de Segura1530-1580 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5John of Ávila1499-1569 · Spain · Religious Figures19 decades
  6. 6Joseph of Anchieta1534-1597 · Spain · Religious Figures13 decades
  7. 7Diego de Landa1524-1579 · Spain · Religious Figures19 decades
  8. 8Juan de Zumárraga1468-1548 · Spain · Religious Figures21 decades
  9. 9Diego Laynez1512-1565 · Spain · Religious Figures17 decades
  10. 10Tomás de Berlanga1487-1551 · Spain · Religious Figures17 decades
  11. 11Fernando Niño de Guevara1541-1609 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  12. 12Claudio Acquaviva1543-1615 · Spain · Religious Figures21 decades
  13. 13Juan Pardo de Tavera1472-1545 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Juan Bautista Rico1561-1613 · Spain · Religious Figures12 decades
  15. 15Giovanni Borgia1498-1550 · Spain · Religious Figures3 decades
  16. 16Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas1546-1618 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  17. 17Francisco Marroquín1499-1563 · Spain · Religious Figures14 decades
  18. 18García Guerra1545-1612 · Spain · Religious Figures19 decades
  19. 19García de Loaysa1478-1546 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  20. 20Diego de Espinosa1502-1572 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  21. 21Alonso Manrique de Lara1471-1538 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  22. 22Antonio Agustín y Albanell1517-1586 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  23. 23Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga1498-1535 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  24. 24Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela1512-1594 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  25. 25Juan Álvarez de Toledo1488-1557 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  26. 26Rodrigo de Castro Osorio1523-1600 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  27. 27Juan de Zúñiga y Pimentel1465-1504 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  28. 28Juan Martínez Silíceo1486-1557 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  29. 29Andrés de Olmos1485-1571 · Spain · Religious Figures18 decades
  30. 30Antonio Zapata y Cisneros1550-1635 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  31. 31Pedro Pacheco de Villena1488-1560 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  32. 32Francisco de Quiñones1475-1540 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  33. 33Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla1508-1566 · Spain · Religious Figures14 decades
  34. 34Martín Ignacio de Loyola1550-1606 · Spain · Religious Figures12 decades
  35. 35Alonso de Salazar Frías1564-1636 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  36. 36Francisco Pacheco de Toledo1508-1579 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  37. 37Enrique de Borja y Aragón1518-1540 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  38. 38Esteban Gabriel Merino1472-1535 · Spain · Religious Figures3 decades
  39. 39Hernando de Aragón y Gurrea1498-1575 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  40. 40Juan de Polanco1516-1577 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  41. 41Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta1511-1575 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  42. 42Jerónimo Xavierre1546-1608 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  43. 43Pedro de Deza1520-1600 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  44. 44Gaspar de Zúñiga y Avellaneda1507-1571 · Spain · Religious Figures3 decades
  45. 45Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva1485-1545 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  46. 46Dominique de Jésus-Marie1559-1630 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  47. 47Luis de Valdivia1561-1642 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  48. 48Antonio de Valdivieso1495-1550 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  49. 49Francisco de Toral1502-1571 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  50. 50Martin of the Ascension1566-1597 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  51. 51Balthazar Alvarez1533-1580 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  52. 52Antonio de Sotomayor1557-1648 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  53. 53Pedro Ponce de León1510-1584 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  54. 54Reginaldo de Lizárraga1545-1615 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  55. 55Francisco Briceño1500-1571 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  56. 56Francisco Dávila y Guzmán1548-1606 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  57. 57Diego Vázquez de Mercado1533-1616 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  58. 58Fernando de Toledo Oropesa1520-1590 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  59. 59Marcos Criado1522-1569 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  60. 60Pedro Angulo1500-1561 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  61. 61Luis López de Solís1534-1606 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  62. 62Antonio de Fonseca1503-1557 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  63. 63Cristóbal Rojas Sandoval1502-1580 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  64. 64Bartolomé de Ledesma1524-1604 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  65. 65Agustín Dávila Padilla1562-1604 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  66. 66Giacomo Dal Pozzo1495-1563 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot 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.