← 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
Marc-Antoine Charpentier9 decades - 2
Marin Marais8 decades - 3
André Campra7 decades - 4
Michel Richard Delalande1 decades - 5Louis Couperin11 decades
- 6Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe0 decades
- 7Robert de Visée1 decades
- 8
Pierre Beauchamp1 decades - 9
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert0 decades - 10
André Félibien16 decades - 11
Michel Lambert19 decades - 12
Henri Du Mont5 decades - 13Jacques Champion de Chambonnières0 decades
- 14Nicolas Lebègue4 decades
- 15Pascal Collasse0 decades
- 16
Denis Gaultier3 decades - 17Antoine Boësset0 decades
- 18Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers1 decades
- 19
André Danican Philidornot measured- - 20Étienne Moulinié0 decades
- 21Ennemond Gaultier0 decades
- 22
Michele Mascitti0 decades - 23
Jean de Cambefort0 decades - 24Guillaume Bouzignac0 decades
- 25
Nicolas Bernier4 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.