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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. 1Miqdad ibn AswadMiqdad ibn Aswad590–652 · Scientistsnot measured—
  2. 2'A'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As595–684 · Scientistsnot measured—
  3. 3Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi BakrAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr596–675 · Scientistsnot measured—
  4. 4ASAbu Salama 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Asad al-Makhzumi600–625 · Scientistsnot measured—
  5. 5SISa'id ibn Amir al-Jumahi601–641 · Scientistsnot measured—
  6. 6Tonmi SambhotaTonmi Sambhotaborn 618 · Scientists0 decades
  7. 7AIAbbad ibn Bishr589–632 · Scientists0 decades
  8. 8AIAl-Fadl ibn Abbas614–639 · Scientistsnot measured—
  9. 9XJXu Jingzong592–672 · Scientistsnot measured—
  10. 10Khalid ibn YazidKhalid ibn Yazid655–704 · Scientists0 decades
  11. 11SSSeverus Sebokht575–667 · Scientists0 decades
  12. 12Hisham ibn al-AsHisham ibn al-Asdied 635 · Scientistsnot measured—
  13. 13BIBashir ibn Sa'ad600–633 · Scientistsnot 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.