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
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb565–640 · Business Professionals0 decades - 2
Saint Giles640–710 · Business Professionals17 decades - 3
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas595–674 · Business Professionals0 decades - 4ADAbu Dharr al-Ghifaridied 651 · Business Professionals0 decades
- 5
'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf580–654 · Business Professionalsnot measured— - 6
Suhayb ar-Rumi587–659 · Business Professionalsnot measured— - 7
Utba ibn Rabi'ah567–624 · Business Professionalsnot measured— - 8
Abu Darda586–652 · Business Professionals0 decades - 9
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabidied 634 · Business Professionalsnot measured— - 10UIUqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt600–624 · Business Professionalsnot measured—
- 11AIAbān ibn Saʻīddied 634 · Business Professionalsnot measured—
- 12UMUmm Ma'bad600–644 · Business Professionals0 decades
- 13MIMut'im ibn Adidied 623 · Business Professionalsnot measured—
- 14AIAbdullah ibn Omayr Abu Wahab al Kalbidied 680 · Business Professionalsnot 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.