← 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
Hurrem Sultan0 decades - 2
Nurbanu Sultan0 decades - 3
Şehzade Bayezidnot measured- - 4
Şehzade Cihangirnot measured- - 5
Kılıç Ali Paşanot measured- - 6
Oruç Reis0 decades - 7
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo4 decades - 8
Pir Sultan Abdal0 decades - 9
Ebussu'ud Efendi0 decades - 10Joseph Nasi17 decades
- 11
Mihrimah Sultan0 decades - 12
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami0 decades - 13
Kemalpaşazade0 decades - 14
Gül Baba0 decades - 15
Şeref Hannot measured- - 16
Fuzûlî0 decades - 17
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz20 decades - 18Seydi Ali Reis0 decades
- 19
Bakinot measured- - 20Hasan Pasha1 decades
- 21
Yahya bey Dukagjininot measured- - 22
Imam Birgivi0 decades - 23
Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali0 decades - 24Hoca Sadeddin Efendi0 decades
- 25
Ahmed Karahisari0 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.