← 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
Justinian I8 decades - 2
Benedict of Nursia19 decades - 3
Clovis I0 decades - 4
Aryabhata12 decades - 5
Pope Gregory I6 decades - 6
Khadija bint Khuwaylid0 decades - 7
Boethius22 decades - 8
Isidore of Seville22 decades - 9
Belisarius22 decades - 10
Bodhidharma12 decades - 11
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 12Procopius22 decades
- 13
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalibnot measured- - 14
Columba22 decades - 15
Khosrow I0 decades - 16
Phocas22 decades - 17
Pope John I0 decades - 18
Abd al-Muttalib0 decades - 19
Justin II21 decades - 20
Chlothar I0 decades - 21
Augustine of Canterbury16 decades - 22
Pope John II0 decades - 23
Tiberius II Constantine0 decades - 24
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite1 decades - 25
Brendan the Navigator0 decades - 26
Gregory of Tours22 decades - 27
Pope Silverius0 decades - 28
Pope Felix IV0 decades - 29
Pope Vigilius12 decades - 30
Pope Boniface II0 decades - 31
Vātsyāyana1 decades - 32
Pope Pelagius II0 decades - 33
Totila22 decades - 34
Pope Benedict I0 decades - 35
Pope Agapetus I0 decades - 36Jordanes16 decades
- 37
Dionysius Exiguus18 decades - 38
Pope Boniface IV0 decades - 39
Cassiodorus22 decades - 40
Æthelberhtnot measured- - 41
Pope Pelagius I0 decades - 42
Narses22 decades - 43
Saint David22 decades - 44
Pope John III0 decades - 45
Chilperic I0 decades - 46
Cerdic of Wessex0 decades - 47
Suiko12 decades - 48
Columbanus22 decades - 49
Pope Sabinian0 decades - 50
Pope Boniface III0 decades - 51Varāhamihira0 decades
- 52
Gildas22 decades - 53
Clotildenot measured- - 54
Emperor Wen of Sui0 decades - 55
Theodoranot measured- - 56
Kinmei0 decades - 57
Kavad I0 decades - 58
Athalaric13 decades - 59
Reccared I11 decades - 60
Scholastica22 decades - 61
Imru' al-Qais0 decades - 62
Alboinnot measured- - 63
Charibert I0 decades - 64
Gelimer16 decades - 65John Malalas2 decades
- 66
Childebert I0 decades - 67
Antarah ibn Shaddad0 decades - 68
Fredegundnot measured- - 69
Mauricenot measured- - 70
Rædwald of East Anglia0 decades - 71
Theuderic I0 decades - 72
Theodahad3 decades - 73
Hormizd IV0 decades - 74
Hatim al-Tainot measured- - 75Nonnus of Panopolis0 decades
- 76
Vitiges12 decades - 77
Sigebert I0 decades - 78
Taliesinnot measured- - 79
Radegund21 decades - 80
Chlodomer0 decades - 81
Abū Lahab0 decades - 82
Sophronius of Jerusalem0 decades - 83
Armahnot measured- - 84
Saint Gall17 decades - 85
Liuvigild0 decades - 86
Teia4 decades - 87
Guntramnot measured- - 88
Childebert II2 decades - 89
Theudebert I0 decades - 90
Bumin Qaghannot measured- - 91
Simplicius of Cilicia0 decades - 92
Gaudapada8 decades - 93John Philoponus5 decades
- 94
Bidatsu0 decades - 95
Venantius Fortunatus22 decades - 96
Buretsu0 decades - 97Dhu Nuwas0 decades
- 98
Rosamundnot measured- - 99
Hassan ibn Thabit0 decades - 100
Amalaric7 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.