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.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Cuthbert635–687 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 2
Æthelthryth636–679 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom1 decades - 3
Beuno570–640 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom22 decades - 4
Donald of Ogilvy650–716 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdomnot measured— - 5HHædde650–705 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figures0 decades
- 6DDerfel566–660 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdomnot measured—
- 7WWine625–675 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figuresnot measured—
- 8COCeolwald of Wessexborn 650 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdomnot measured—
- 9DDrostandied 610 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figures6 decades
- 10AAAthrwys ap Meurig605–655 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Historical Figures0 decades
- 11CCCadafael Cadomedd ap Cynfeddw650–655 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 12ÆOÆbbe of Coldinghamdied 683 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom0 decades
- 13ÆOÆthelstan of Sussex650–800 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Historical Figuresnot measured—
- 14
Allgo600–660 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom0 decades - 15
Dunod600–700 · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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.