← 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 - 26Matija Divkovićnot measured-
- 27
Şemsi Pasha0 decades - 28
Aşık Çelebi0 decades - 29
Taşköprizâde Ahmed Efendinot measured- - 30Mahmud Hudayi0 decades
- 31Israel ben Moses Najara14 decades
- 32Selman Reis0 decades
- 33Mesihi of Prishtinanot measured-
- 34'Ali Akbar Khata'inot measured-
- 35Hızır Hayreddin Reisnot measured-
- 36Canfeda Hatunnot measured-
- 37
Andronikos Kantakouzenosnot measured- - 38Yahya Efendinot measured-
- 39Celâlzâde Mustafa Çelebinot measured-
- 40Oruçnot measured-
- 41
Hayali Beynot measured- - 42Ahdarinot measured-
- 43Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ramlīnot measured-
- 44Hubbi Hatunnot measured-
- 45Hamza Bâlînot measured-
- 46Mustafa Selanikinot measured-
- 47Enverinot measured-
- 48Fazlinot measured-
- 49Mansur-Billahnot measured-
- 50Ḥasan Ibn-Muḥammad al-Būrīnīnot measured-
- 51
Sokulluzade Hasan Paşanot measured- - 52Zekeriyazade Yahyanot measured-
- 53Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAlī Ibn-Ṭūlūnnot measured-
- 54Elia Capsalinot measured-
- 55Muhyî-i Gülşenînot measured-
- 56Hasan Can Çelebinot measured-
- 57Ebülfazl Mehmet Efendinot measured-
- 58Basirinot measured-
- 59Āgehīnot measured-
- 60Grigoris Aghtamartsinot measured-
- 61Ebülfazl Mehmet Efendinot 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.