← 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
Francisco Quevedo22 decades - 2
Pedro Calderón de la Barca22 decades - 3
Baltasar Gracián14 decades - 4
Tirso de Molina22 decades - 5
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón15 decades - 6
María de Zayas22 decades - 7
Miguel de Molinos20 decades - 8
Luis Vélez de Guevara18 decades - 9
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo21 decades - 10
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl12 decades - 11Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla17 decades
- 12
Bernardo de Balbuena22 decades - 13
Agustín Moreto y Cavana21 decades - 14Juan de Jáuregui22 decades
- 15
Alonso de Contreras19 decades - 16
Juan Perez de Montalban16 decades - 17Bernabé Cobo19 decades
- 18
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg22 decades - 19
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra8 decades - 20
Rodrigo Caro22 decades - 21Ana Caro de Mallén0 decades
- 22
Diego López Pacheco, 7th Duke of Escalonanot measured- - 23
Francisco de Borja y Aragón13 decades - 24
Payo Enríquez de Rivera12 decades - 25
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza0 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.