1600–1699
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Murad IV1612–1640 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers4 decades - 2
Ahmed I1590–1617 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers2 decades - 3
Osman II1604–1622 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 4
Evliya Çelebi1611–1682 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers2 decades - 5
Gülnuş Sultan1642–1715 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 6
Ahmad Khani1650–1707 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 7
Nef'i1572–1635 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 8
Karacaoğlan1606–1680 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 9
Pjetër Bogdani1630–1689 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 10
Nathan of Gaza1644–1680 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers19 decades - 11MIMehmed IV Giray1610–1674 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 12
Shalom Shabazi1619–1719 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers13 decades - 13
İbrahim Peçevi1574–1649 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades - 14YNYusuf Nabi1642–1712 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 15KBKoçi Bey1600–1650 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 16MJMalaye Jaziri1570–1640 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 17
Hafız Osman1642–1698 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 18
Estephan El Douaihy1630–1704 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 19MNMustafa Naima1655–1716 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writers0 decades
- 20
Abdullah b. Alevi Haddad1634–1720 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 21
İbnü'l-İmad1623–1679 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 22RMRami Mehmed Paşa1645–1706 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 23
Abdurrauf Singkil1615–1693 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 24
Aşıq Ümer1621–1707 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 25
Tiryaki Hasan Pasha1600–1611 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 26NMNiyazi Misri1618–1693 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 27
Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi1601–1651 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 28
Kul Nesîmî1600–1700 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 29
Mar'i al-Karmi1580–1624 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 30MZMuhammed Zürkani1645–1710 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 31Aal-Buhūti1591–1641 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 32
Suleiman Agaborn 1620 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 33AEAbraham Ecchellensis1605–1664 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 34ATAli Taramakhi1591–1653 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 35SFSilahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga1658–1723 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 36SMSolakzade Mehmed Hemdeni1590–1658 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
- 37
Eremia Komurdjian Celebi1637–1695 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 38IKIbrahim Khan1565–1621 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
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Suyolcuzade Mustafa Eyyubi1619–1686 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 40
Mustafa Besarani1642–1701 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured— - 41
Yakov of Kamena Reka1600–1600 · 🇹🇷 Turkey · Writersnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.