← 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
Benedict of Nursia19 decades - 2Procopius22 decades
- 3
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 4
Abd al-Muttalib0 decades - 5
Gregory of Tours22 decades - 6
Vātsyāyana1 decades - 7Jordanes16 decades
- 8
Columbanus22 decades - 9
Gildas22 decades - 10
Imru' al-Qais0 decades - 11John Malalas2 decades
- 12
Antarah ibn Shaddad0 decades - 13
Hatim al-Tainot measured- - 14Nonnus of Panopolis0 decades
- 15
Taliesinnot measured- - 16
Saint Gall17 decades - 17
Venantius Fortunatus22 decades - 18
Hassan ibn Thabit0 decades - 19
Mark of Cornwall0 decades - 20
Aminah5 decades - 21
Prisciannot measured- - 22Agathias22 decades
- 23Daṇḍin0 decades
- 24
Caesarius of Arles3 decades - 25Shudraka0 decades
- 26
Dorotheus of Gaza0 decades - 27John of Ephesus7 decades
- 28Aneirinnot measured-
- 29Horapollon0 decades
- 30Bharavi4 decades
- 31
Eutychius of Constantinople0 decades - 32Evagrius Scholasticus0 decades
- 33
Zuhayrnot measured- - 34
Ŭlchi Mundŏknot measured- - 35Magnus Felix Ennodius0 decades
- 36
Agathangelosnot measured- - 37
Tarafa7 decades - 38Maximianusnot measured-
- 39Amr ibn Kulthum0 decades
- 40John Moschus0 decades
- 41Labīdnot measured-
- 42
Chen Shubao0 decades - 43
Corippus15 decades - 44Fabius Planciades Fulgentius0 decades
- 45John the Lydian0 decades
- 46Al-Nabigha0 decades
- 47
Yu Shinannot measured- - 48
Zacharias Rhetor0 decades - 49
Xiao Tong0 decades - 50
Peter the Patrician0 decades - 51Umm Hakim bint Abd al-Muttalibnot measured-
- 52Emperor Jianwen of Liangnot measured-
- 53Samaw'al ibn 'Adiyanot measured-
- 54Paul the Silentiary1 decades
- 55Musaeus Grammaticus0 decades
- 56Marius Aventicensis0 decades
- 57Adi ibn Zayd0 decades
- 58Cyril of Scythopolis1 decades
- 59Hesychius of Miletus0 decades
- 60Umayya ibn Abi Saltnot measured-
- 61
Consort Zhang Lihua2 decades - 62
Xiao Zixiannot measured- - 63Leontios of Byzantium0 decades
- 64John of Biclaro0 decades
- 65Llywarch Hen11 decades
- 66Zayd ibn Amr0 decades
- 67Narasimhavarman II0 decades
- 68Coluthus6 decades
- 69
Yu Xinnot measured- - 70Victor of Tunnuna0 decades
- 71
Teneu0 decades - 72Harith Ibn Hilliza Ul-Yashkurinot measured-
- 73Songyunnot measured-
- 74
Feng Xiaoliannot measured- - 75Sergius of Reshaina0 decades
- 76
Colmán of Cloynenot measured- - 77
Su Xiaoxiaonot measured- - 78Wei Shou0 decades
- 79
Nicetiusnot measured- - 80
Yao Silian0 decades - 81
Urwa ibn al-Ward0 decades - 82
Iakob Tsurtavelinot measured- - 83Ferréol of Uzèsnot measured-
- 84Dioscorus of Aphrodito0 decades
- 85Joshua the Stylite0 decades
- 86Durvinita0 decades
- 87Sthiramati6 decades
- 88Amir bin Tufaylnot measured-
- 89Aurelianus of Arles0 decades
- 90Theophanes of Byzantium0 decades
- 91Xu Lingnot measured-
- 92Li Baiyao0 decades
- 93Durayd ibn al-Simmanot measured-
- 94Liberatus of Carthage0 decades
- 95
Dallán Forgaill0 decades - 96Cassianus Bassus0 decades
- 97Al-Harith ibn Abbadnot measured-
- 98'Abid ibn al-Abrasnot measured-
- 99Agapetusnot measured-
- 100
Bertechramnus0 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.