← Fame through time600-699
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 coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Husayn ibn Ali0 decades - 2
Brahmagupta16 decades - 3
Xuanzang1 decades - 4
Maximus the Confessor6 decades - 5
Hasan al-Basri2 decades - 6
John Climacus4 decades - 7
Bhartṛhari1 decades - 8
Huineng4 decades - 9
Abu Musa al-Ash'arinot measured- - 10Bhaskara-I0 decades
- 11
Candrakīrti2 decades - 12
Li Chunfengnot measured- - 13
Ka'b al-Ahbar0 decades - 14
Isaac of Nineveh1 decades - 15
Abu al-Aswad al-Du'alinot measured- - 16
Anania Shirakatsi0 decades - 17
Habib ibn Muzahirnot measured- - 18
Fazang2 decades - 19
David Anhaght0 decades - 20
Kong Yingda3 decades - 21Stephen of Alexandria0 decades
- 22Hammām ibn Munabbihnot measured-
- 23
Woncheuknot measured- - 24Urwah al-Bariqinot measured-
- 25
Uisang0 decades - 26Wang Xiaotong0 decades
- 27Antiochus of Palestine0 decades
- 28Yeh Fa-shannot measured-
- 29
Seol Chong0 decades - 30Athanasius of Balad0 decades
- 31
Wang Tongnot measured- - 32Hovnan Mayravanetsinot measured-
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.