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← 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. 1Juan de Palafox y Mendoza1600-1659 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  2. 2Diego Luis de San Vitores1627-1672 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  3. 3Francis Ferdinand de Capillas1607-1648 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  4. 4Juan del Castillo1596-1628 · Spain · Religious Figures22 decades
  5. 5Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón1642-1730 · Spain · Religious Figures8 decades
  6. 6Alfonso Rodríguez Olmedo1599-1628 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  7. 7Melchor Liñán y Cisneros1629-1708 · Spain · Religious Figures13 decades
  8. 8Juan Ortega y Montañés1627-1708 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  9. 9Agustín de Spínola Basadone1597-1649 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  10. 10Diego Osorio de Escobar y Llamas1608-1673 · Spain · Religious Figures11 decades
  11. 11Baltasar Moscoso y Sandoval1589-1665 · Spain · Religious Figures1 decades
  12. 12Marcos de Torres y Rueda1588-1649 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  13. 13Diego Ladrón de Guevara1641-1718 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  14. 14Diego de Astorga y Céspedes1663-1734 · Spain · Religious Figures4 decades
  15. 15Domingo Fernández Navarrete1618-1689 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  16. 16Diego Guzmán de Haros1566-1631 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Manuel Arias y Porres1638-1717 · Spain · Religious Figures0 decades
  18. 18Alonso de Sandoval1576-1652 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  19. 19Alonso Henríquez de Santo Tomás1631-1692 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  20. 20Francisco de Aguiar y Sejas1632-1698 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  21. 21Juan Pérez de la Serna1573-1631 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  22. 22Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco1589-1671 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  23. 23Alfonso Navarrete1571-1617 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  24. 24Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón1657-1739 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  25. 25Luigi Omodei1657-1706 · Spain · Religious Figuresnot measured-
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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.