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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. 1Pope Gregory I540-604 · Italy · Religious Figures6 decades
  2. 2Pope John I470-526 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  3. 3Augustine of Canterbury550-605 · Italy · Religious Figures16 decades
  4. 4Pope John II470-535 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope Silverius477-537 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  6. 6Pope Felix IVdied 530 · Religious Figures0 decades
  7. 7Pope Vigiliusdied 555 · Italy · Religious Figures12 decades
  8. 8Pope Boniface IIdied 532 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Pelagius II520-590 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Pope Benedict I525-579 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Agapetus I490-536 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Pope Boniface IV550-615 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Pope Pelagius I505-561 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Saint David512-589 · Religious Figures22 decades
  15. 15Pope John III520-574 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  16. 16Pope Sabinian530-606 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  17. 17Pope Boniface III540-607 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  18. 18Abdullah ibn Salam550-663 · Religious Figures0 decades
  19. 19Leonard of Noblac496-545 · Religious Figures0 decades
  20. 20Medardus475-550 · France · Religious Figures5 decades
  21. 21Germain of Paris496-576 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  22. 22Leander of Seville534-600 · Religious Figures0 decades
  23. 23Clodoald524-560 · Religious Figures1 decades
  24. 24Laurence of Canterbury550-619 · Religious Figures0 decades
  25. 25Malo520-621 · United Kingdom · Religious Figuresnot measured-
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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.