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600–699

The 7th century

Whose working lives fell in the 7th 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 7th century, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.

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  1. 1Pope Leo IIPope Leo II611–683 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  2. 2Pope Martin IPope Martin I598–655 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Politicians0 decades
  3. 3Pope Honorius IPope Honorius I585–638 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  4. 4Pope Sergius IPope Sergius I650–701 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope AgathoPope Agatho574–681 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures8 decades
  6. 6Pope VitalianPope Vitalian600–672 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures8 decades
  7. 7Pope John VIIPope John VII650–707 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  8. 8Pope Benedict IIPope Benedict II635–685 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Adeodatus IPope Adeodatus I570–618 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured—
  10. 10Pope Adeodatus IIPope Adeodatus IIdied 676 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope SeverinusPope Severinusdied 640 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Pope CononPope Conon630–687 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Pope DonusPope Donusdied 678 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Pope Boniface VPope Boniface V600–625 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Religious Figures0 decades

How this is measured

  • Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
  • Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
  • Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
  • What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.