← 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
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda0 decades - 2
Estêvão Gomes17 decades - 3
Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont0 decades - 4
Nicolás Monardes19 decades - 5
Diego de Ordaz22 decades - 6
Blasco de Garay21 decades - 7Martín Fernández de Enciso14 decades
- 8
Cristóvão da Costa14 decades - 9
Pedro de Medina22 decades - 10Diogo Ribeiro19 decades
- 11
Alonzo de Santa Cruz21 decades - 12
Martín Cortés de Albacar0 decades - 13
Juan Valverde de Amusconot measured- - 14
Enrico Martíneznot measured- - 15
Gabriel Alonso de Herrera21 decades - 16Francisco Galínot measured-
- 17
Rodrigo Zamoranonot 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.