← Fame through time1600-1699
The 17th century
Whose working lives fell in the 17th 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 17th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicolas Poussin22 decades - 2
Georges de La Tour9 decades - 3
Claude Lorrain18 decades - 4
Charles Le Brun22 decades - 5
Hyacinthe Rigaud19 decades - 6
Simon Vouet22 decades - 7
Pierre Mignard I22 decades - 8
Pierre Puget22 decades - 9
André Charles Boulle5 decades - 10
Nicolas de Largillière3 decades - 11
Antoine Coysevox8 decades - 12
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet0 decades - 13
Marie Anne Mancini0 decades - 14
Sébastien Bourdon22 decades - 15Antoine Gombaud0 decades
- 16
Claude Mellan19 decades - 17
François Girardon18 decades - 18Laurent de La Hyre3 decades
- 19Louise Moillon4 decades
- 20
Antoine Coypel22 decades - 21
Nicolas Coustou19 decades - 22
Nicolas Mignard18 decades - 23
Jean Jouvenet0 decades - 24
Gaspard Dughet9 decades - 25
François de Troy18 decades - 26
Marion Delorme21 decades - 27
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron0 decades - 28
Jacob van Loo0 decades - 29
Alexandre-François Desportes0 decades - 30
Noël Coypel20 decades - 31
François Perrier19 decades - 32
Jean-Baptiste Santerre1 decades - 33
Trophime Bigot1 decades - 34
Jean Bérain the Eldernot measured- - 35
Louis de Boullogne4 decades - 36
Sébastien Leclerc21 decades - 37
Nicolas Tournier3 decades - 38
Lubin Baugin5 decades - 39
Jacques Bellange3 decades - 40
Jean-Baptiste Tuby0 decades - 41
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer1 decades - 42
Claude Deruet14 decades - 43
Jacques Carrey2 decades - 44
Julie d'Angennes22 decades - 45
Martin Desjardins7 decades - 46
Claude Lefèbvre0 decades - 47
Suzanne du Plessis-Bellièrenot measured- - 48
René-Antoine Houasse1 decades - 49
Pierre Patel2 decades - 50Pierre Gobert2 decades
- 51
François de Noménot measured- - 52
Joseph Parrocel7 decades - 53
François Chauveau16 decades - 54
Charles Errard13 decades - 55
Israel Silvestre20 decades - 56
Agostino Scilla19 decades - 57
Jean Le Pautre6 decades - 58
Jean Baptiste de Champaigne6 decades - 59
Nicolas-Pierre Loirnot measured- - 60
Jacques Sarazin18 decades - 61
Jean Nocret1 decades - 62
Pierre-Étienne Monnot0 decades - 63
Jacques Fouquier0 decades - 64
Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, Duchess of Aiguillonnot measured- - 65
Bon Boullognenot measured- - 66
Jacques d'Agar0 decades - 67
Étienne Allegrain0 decades - 68
Claude Audran IIInot measured- - 69
Louis Le Nainnot measured- - 70
Pierre Lepautre3 decades - 71
Jacques Linard1 decades - 72Louis-Abraham van Loonot measured-
- 73
Claude-Guy Hallénot measured- - 74
Louis Boullogne0 decades - 75
Jean Petitot12 decades - 76Nicolas Cordiernot measured-
- 77
Jean-Baptiste Belinnot measured- - 78
Martin Fréminetnot measured- - 79
Cecco Bravonot measured- - 80
Charles Mellinnot measured- - 81
Madeleine Boullognenot measured- - 82Pierre-Denis Martinnot measured-
- 83
Louis Ferdinand Elle the Eldernot measured- - 84
Michel Corneille the Eldernot measured- - 85
Jean Boulangernot measured- - 86
Jean-Baptiste Martinnot measured- - 87
Jean Varinnot measured- - 88
Louis Laguerrenot measured- - 89
Didier Barranot measured- - 90
Gilles Guérin13 decades - 91
Henri Testelinnot measured- - 92
Simon Renard de Saint-Andrénot measured- - 93
Michel Dorignynot measured- - 94
Pierre Le Gros the Eldernot measured- - 95
Jean Andrénot measured- - 96
Michel Anguiernot measured- - 97
Michel Corneille the Youngernot measured- - 98
Simon Guillain16 decades - 99
Francesco Fracanzanonot measured- - 100
Marie Le Rochois0 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.