← 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
Boethius22 decades - 2
Belisarius22 decades - 3
Phocas22 decades - 4
Justin II21 decades - 5
Cassiodorus22 decades - 6
Suiko12 decades - 7
Emperor Wen of Sui0 decades - 8
Abū Lahab0 decades - 9
Amalasuntha12 decades - 10
Antoninanot measured- - 11
Agilulf14 decades - 12
Ouyang Xunnot measured- - 13John the Cappadocian0 decades
- 14Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhirnot measured-
- 15Wacho0 decades
- 16
Soga no Umako0 decades - 17
Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qinot measured- - 18
Gregory the Patrician0 decades - 19Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Weinot measured-
- 20Vitaliannot measured-
- 21
Gao Huan0 decades - 22Liberiusnot measured-
- 23Eutharic1 decades
- 24
Emperor Wu of Chennot measured- - 25
Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus0 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.