← 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
Christina, Queen of Swedennot measured- - 2
Sigismund III Vasa0 decades - 3
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden13 decades - 4
Charles XI of Sweden0 decades - 5
Charles X Gustav of Sweden19 decades
- 6
Axel Oxenstierna20 decades - 7
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg0 decades - 8
Samuel von Pufendorf9 decades - 9
Lennart Torstensson0 decades
- 10
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 11
Carl Gustav Rehnskiöldnot measured- - 12
Carl Gustaf Wrangel0 decades
- 13
Johan Banér0 decades - 14
Olaus Rudbeck4 decades - 15
Maria Aurora von Königsmarck0 decades - 16
Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg0 decades - 17
Christina of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 18
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt0 decades - 19
Jacob De la Gardie0 decades
- 20
Per Brahe the Younger0 decades - 21
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Levennot measured- - 22
Christopher Polhem0 decades - 23
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie0 decades - 24
Johann Reinhold von Patkul0 decades - 25
Princess Anna of Sweden0 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.