← 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
Peter Paul Rubens22 decades - 2
Godfrey Kneller0 decades - 3
Anna Maria van Schurman0 decades - 4
Andreas Schlüter18 decades - 5
Adam Elsheimer13 decades - 6
Balthasar Permoser12 decades - 7
Georg Flegel5 decades - 8
Johann Liss6 decades - 9
Daniel Schultz0 decades - 10
Jan Boeckhorst0 decades - 11Zacharias Wagenaer0 decades
- 12
Johann Melchior Dinglinger3 decades - 13
Bartlomiej Strobelnot measured- - 14
Johann Carl Loth1 decades - 15
Jürgen Ovens5 decades - 16
Johann Heinrich Roos4 decades - 17
Michael Willmann7 decades - 18
Philipp Peter Roos1 decades - 19
Christoph Weigel the Eldernot measured- - 20
Johann Heinrich Schönfeld5 decades - 21
Benjamin Block0 decades - 22
Johann Wilhelm Baur0 decades - 23
Francis Cleyn0 decades - 24
Wolfgang Heimbachnot measured- - 25
Jan Brokoff0 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.