← 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
Anne Hathaway21 decades - 2
John Foxe21 decades - 3
Richard Hooker22 decades - 4
William Farel22 decades - 5
Theodor de Bry21 decades - 6
Nicholas Ridley17 decades - 7
Balthasar Hubmaier16 decades - 8
Peter Martyr Vermigli20 decades - 9
Anton Praetorius0 decades - 10
Isabella Andreini22 decades - 11
Matthias Flacius22 decades - 12
Juan de Valdés21 decades - 13
Fausto Sozzini10 decades - 14
Andreas Osiander20 decades - 15
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero19 decades - 16
Ferenc Dávid0 decades - 17
Luis de Granada22 decades - 18
Caspar Schwenckfeld6 decades - 19
Johann von Staupitz0 decades - 20
Melchior Hoffman19 decades - 21
Johannes Brenz0 decades - 22
Conrad Grebel7 decades - 23
Thomas Erastus0 decades - 24
Jeremias II of Constantinople0 decades - 25
George Spalatin0 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.