← 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
Aryabhata12 decades - 2
Isidore of Seville22 decades - 3
Bodhidharma12 decades - 4
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite1 decades - 5
Dionysius Exiguus18 decades - 6Varāhamihira0 decades
- 7
Simplicius of Cilicia0 decades - 8
Gaudapada8 decades - 9John Philoponus5 decades
- 10
Anthemius of Tralles0 decades - 11Stephanus of Byzantium9 decades
- 12
Zhiyinot measured- - 13Dignāga2 decades
- 14Olympiodorus the Younger0 decades
- 15Aedesia0 decades
- 16Eutocius of Ascalon0 decades
- 17Buddhapālita0 decades
- 18Zu Gengzhinot measured-
- 19Śīlabhadra0 decades
- 20
Jizang0 decades - 21
Dharmapala of Nalanda0 decades - 22Priscian of Lydia0 decades
- 23Paramartha6 decades
- 24Olympiodorus the Elder0 decades
- 25Asclepiodotus of Alexandria0 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.