← 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
Khadija bint Khuwaylid0 decades - 2
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 3Umayya ibn Abd Shamsnot measured-
- 4Walid ibn al-Mughira0 decades
- 5Fatima bint Amrnot measured-
- 6Abu al-'As ibn Umayyanot measured-
- 7John Tzibosnot measured-
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.