← Fame through time500-599
The 6th century
Whose working lives fell in the 6th 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 6th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Justinian I8 decades - 2
Benedict of Nursia19 decades - 3
Clovis I0 decades - 4
Aryabhata12 decades - 5
Pope Gregory I6 decades - 6
Khadija bint Khuwaylid0 decades - 7
Boethius22 decades - 8
Isidore of Seville22 decades - 9
Belisarius22 decades - 10
Bodhidharma12 decades - 11
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 12Procopius22 decades
- 13
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 14
Columba22 decades - 15
Khosrow I0 decades - 16
Phocas22 decades - 17
Pope John I0 decades - 18
Abd al-Muttalib0 decades - 19
Justin II21 decades - 20
Chlothar I0 decades - 21
Augustine of Canterbury16 decades - 22
Pope John II0 decades - 23
Tiberius II Constantine0 decades - 24
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite1 decades - 25
Brendan the Navigator0 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.