← 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
Aishanot measured- - 2
Khalid ibn al-Walid0 decades - 3
Wu Zetian8 decades - 4
Yazid I0 decades - 5
Salman the Persian0 decades - 6
Harsha22 decades - 7
Fatimah20 decades - 8
Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidinnot measured- - 9
Pope John IV0 decades - 10Ammar ibn Yasir0 decades
- 11
Emperor Yang of Sui2 decades - 12
Jitō0 decades - 13
Genmei0 decades - 14Hind bint Utbah0 decades
- 15
Wang Bo4 decades - 16
Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalibnot measured- - 17
Shangguan Wan'ernot measured- - 18Bāṇabhaṭṭa0 decades
- 19Ibn Sirin0 decades
- 20
Malik al-Ashtar0 decades - 21
Yijing3 decades - 22
Fang Xuanlingnot measured- - 23
Chen Zi'ang8 decades - 24
Aldhelm22 decades - 25
Sisebut6 decades
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.